Slowly but surely, high-resolution audio is shaking up the music industry, giving us the chance to hear our treasured tunes just as the artists intended. With high-res, detail is clearer, vocals are more life-like and bass is, er, bassier.
With support for high-res formats such as FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF and DSD, these pocket players pipe better-than-CD-quality tracks into your ears – up to 192kHz/24-bit in most cases – and throw in other goodies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and top-notch audio components that tease out the extra sonic depth and detail.
To experience high-res audio to the fullest, you need a pair of high-quality headphones that can reveal the subtleties of the music. We tested these players using OPPO’s sublime PM-3s (£350, oppodigital.com ).
1 Sony NWZ-A15…
