Apple's push to increase the quality of songs distributed via iTunes has been formally realized in the company's Mastered for iTunes program—but does it really make music sound better? After our ...

For over 50 years, rock stars, engineers and producers have labored in the studio to find the perfect sound – and in the last decade, they’ve been wrestling with more limitations than ever, thanks to ...

In an age when Apple has become the top music retailer without selling a single physical disc, audio engineers are increasingly creating specially mastered versions of songs and albums designed to ...