Old portable music tech felt sturdy. You could drop your player while on roller blades and not worry about a costly cracked ...

The great draw of portable MP3 players is quantity. I remember when my wife and I took a six-month backpacking trip back in 1999. We never even considered bringing an MP3 player, which might have had ...

This new FiiO redefines what a portable CD player is capable of. This model has Bluetooth streaming, DAC function and the ...

Fiio has come up with an upgraded version of its DM-13 portable CD player with more power and better design elements.

The PNX0106 controller IC brings high-quality audio and extended battery life to hard-disk-drive-based portable devices. Features of the SoC include a 32-bit ARM processor with 16 Kbyte instruction ...

Last month Maxell introduced a new portable cassette player for the Japanese market that combines retro features (it’s… a portable tape cassette player) with modern touches (like a rechargeable ...

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Competition among audio-chip suppliers is heating up as makers of Internet-enabled portable audio players search for the right file-storage format to win over consumers. Despite an adoption rate that ...

Vinyl is far from dead. Just ask your most nostalgic audiophile friend, old-school uncle, or even Taylor Swift. And for those who prefer their vinyl with some modern-day comforts, there’s the revival ...

Panasonic introduced a few portable audio players yesterday that we forgot to mention (although they leaked way back in October), in the “D-snap Audio” line. We’ll start with the “SV-SD100V” and ...

Following on from 2023's HC4 model, the new Astell & Kern HC5 DAC vows to "set a new benchmark for portable audio performance", teasing "stunning" audio quality in a pocket-sized package.

Over the last few years, there’s been a pretty serious resurgence of physical media in the audio space. It’s likely no surprise to most that vinyl kind of helped spearhead this revival, but even CDs ...