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U.K.-based speaker specialist Q Acoustics today announced the arrival of the 5050 tower speaker it previewed in November at Capital Audiofest.

U.K.-based speaker specialist Q Acoustics will unveil a new addition to its 5000 series this weekend at Capital Audiofest in Washington D.C.

London’s popular “Pitchblack Playback” all-in-the-dark, cinema-style listening experience is coming to New York City next week.

Curious about Qobuz? Since its February 2019 U.S. launch, the music streaming service has dramatically ramped up its high-res (up to 24-bit/192kHz) audio catalog and added plenty of exclusive editorial content to its desktop and portable apps. If you haven’t yet investigated Qobuz, the service’s “Gimme Shelter” campaign might be just the nudge you need to make a leap to high-res and lossless streaming.

Paris-based hi-res music streaming and download service Qobuz officially opened its doors in the U.S. at a launch party held last week at the Devialet store in New York City’s SoHo district.

Back in the Napster and LimeWire glory days when I first started listening to music using a computer, “download” and “free” were basically synonymous. With the arrival of iTunes, the paradigm shifted to having to pay actual money for compressed downloads of albums and individual tracks, and HDtracks later upped the ante with uncompressed, high-res music downloads.