It plays music. Wild concept in 2026.

There are solid budget DAPs on the market, but meaningful value tends to thin out quickly as prices drop. That is where the FiiO JM21 becomes interesting. At $179, it lands in a price bracket where ...

Vinyl records are firmly back in rotation, but getting started does not have to mean spending a fortune or building a complicated hi-fi stack from day one. Whether you want a simple, all-in-one setup ...

The Super Bowl LX matchup between the Seahawks and Patriots wasn’t expected before the season, but it’s easy to see why these two teams made it this far with the amount of talent on both sides of the ...

Why would you buy a portable music player? In this age of smartphone ultra-convenience, bolstered by access to so many streaming services and extensive hi-res Bluetooth codec support, what's the point ...

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans. Under an agreement announced Thursday between ...

UK CD sales peaked in 2001, when we bought 225.9 million discs worth £2.2 billion. Convenient, affordable and genuinely excellent in quality, the compact disc was, and remains, a format valued by ...

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Astell & Kern has launched a copper-clad spin on its high-end SP4000 portable hi-res music player. The new SP4000 Copper is teased as a "range-topping addition" to the brand's extensive arsenal of ...

I suppose the upturn in the fortunes of the Compact Disc was inevitable. Much like the resurgence of vinyl as a popular audio storage format, the revival of CD as a viable audio storage format is ...

Maxell is a heritage Japanese audio and electronics manufacturer with a history dating back to the 1960s. Over the years, the brand has become synonymous with audio cassettes and other recordable ...