Do Apple Digital Masters sound better?
Yes, definitely. The key component of Apple Digital Masters involves a clearly defined interwoven workflow that starts with the work in the mastering studio and extends to uploading, encoding and technical delivery by the provider. This process leads to superior quality in terms of compression and encoding. In addition, it ensures that the D/A converters used by consumers will run in an ideal operating range. This results in downloads and streaming with less distortion and compression artefacts.
Our Apple Digital Masters can also generally be used for all other types of high-resolution distribution other than Apple Music. You also receive a high-resolution archive copy of your production on the basis of the ADM data. The Apple Digital Master can serve as a source for all future formats and applications, and creating an optional ADM master of your production makes sense for several other reasons as well.