Music

2L now offers selected recordings as FLAC with immersive surround sound based on Auro-3D.

The Norwegian label 2L The Nordic Sound is now launching a completely revamped online store, the new 2L Music Store.

Subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited can now upgrade to premium sound quality for free, Amazon said in a statement.

So now it's happened, Apple is using at least CD quality, in some cases even hi-res audio, for Apple Music and is offering spatial audio with Dolby Atmos.

So now Spotify too! In the course of the year, the streaming service Spotify wants to offer HiFi. For the first time, music in "CD quality" will also be available here. The provider speaks of a "high-quality music experience".

With "Gimme some truth" a new collector's box around John Lennon is available on CD, Blu-ray, as download and on vinyl.

The film "Jederman remixed", for which Hans Theessink provided an impressive soundtrack, promised a time travel through 90 years.

Two voices, two guitars, refined with a gospel-blues trio and, to top it all off, none other than Ry Cooder as guest on three tracks, this is in a few words the secret of success of "Delta Time", the latest album by Hans Theessink and Terry Evans.

For the first time the Greatest Hits album by Guns n' Roses is available on Vinyl, both as standard double LP and as Gold with White & Red Splatter.

Once again HIGHRESAUDIO sounded the alarm bell for quality assurance, the new AC/DC remasters probably promise more than they can keep.

The new album "The Velvet Blues" by Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman and Carsten Dahl joins the series of audiophile recordings from Dali Speaker A/S.

Pro-Ject Audio Systems presents an audiophile highlight with the new record "Richard Strauss", a recording of the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan.

With "Live Incidents" Sir Oliver Mally and Martin Moro present no less than a truly splendid, audiophile live album in the form of a double CD as well as a 24 bit 44.1 kHz Hi-Res download.

Dualtone Music Group Inc. comes up with an interesting album. "Come on up the house - Women sing Waits" will be available from November in various forms of performance.

A direct comparison between live recording and studio production can be made with the album 7RAY feat. Triple Ace "Jazzy Zoetrope" by Pro-Ject Records.