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- Cowon Plenue D3. A tiny and sonically talented portable music player. SPECIFICATIONS. Storage: 64GB, expandable to 192GB with a 128GB microSD card | Screen size: 2.8-inch | Battery life: 45hrs | Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1.6cm | Weight: 103g.
- Astell & Kern Kann Alpha. Listening to hi-res music on the Kann Alpha is a pure joy. SPECIFICATIONS. Storage: 64GB + microSD expandable | Screen size: 4.1-inch | Battery life: 14.5 hrs | Dimensions: 11.7 x 6.8 x 2.5cm | Weight: 316g.
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By Carrie Marshall
published 29 December 2021
Today's best portable audio tech plays much more than MP3s
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MP3's job is to make audio files smaller, and it does that by analysing the music and deciding what bits to throw out – hopefully in a way that you won't notice.
This is called "lossy compression", because it involves reducing the amount of musical information in the file. The smaller you make the file, the less musical information it contains but the faster you can download it and the less room it takes up on your device.
That was important in the early 2000s because our internet connections were slow, mobile internet was hopeless and our devices had limited storage: even the mighty iPod only had 5GB when it launched. So for many people – most people – the benefits of MP3 outweighed the downside, which was poorer sound quality.
That's still the case for some streaming services today, so for example the standard Spotify service streams music in MP3 format because it's good enough for many listeners.
As the name suggests, lossless audio means the original musical information isn't tampered with – so if the original was CD quality, the lossless version is also CD quality.
Files are much bigger than the best quality MP3 but they are audibly better – and with today's fast internet, fast mobile data and large storage capacities the file size doesn't really matter any more.
Lossless audio essentially takes the original CD quality file and uses a more efficient file format to deliver it.
Some streaming services and many portable audio players go even further, with support for high resolution audio. That delivers quality even better than CD.
Without getting too technical about it, CD quality isn't identical to the original: it scans the original 44,100 times per second to create a digital version that sounds as close to the original as possible. But you can sample even faster, and you can record more information in each sample.
If you do that, you've got a higher resolution file that's much closer to the original performance or recording: so instead of 44,100 sixteen-bit samples per second you might have 96,000 twenty-four-bit ones. You won't notice the difference on cheap earbuds, but if you have high-end headphones or speakers the difference is extraordinary.
We mentioned before that almost all music players support MP3. But there are other formats you should know about too, especially when you're buying hardware.
In addition to MP3 there's AAC, a slightly more efficient form of lossy compression, and then there are the higher resolution formats: WAV and AIFF (CD quality) and FLAC/ALAC for higher resolutions.
If you want to buy a portable player with high-res music capability, look for those latter formats: FLAC is the most widespread and ALAC is just Apple's version of it.
You may also encounter DSD, which is the format used by Super Audio CD, and MQA, which is the favoured format of Tidal for hi-res audio.
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