It can be a daunting prospect. After all, what exactly constitutes hi-res audio? How does it differ from the 'lossless' audio you keep hearing about? What do all the different file formats and numbers ...

As MP3 utilises lossy compression, the same audio stream would result in a smaller file size as an MP3 than it would if captured as a WAV file. Both formats generally capture sound at 44.1KHz per ...