Sure, most of us satisfy our music-listening needs these days using our phones, tablets, and smart speakers, but that doesn't mean a dedicated MP3 player or portable music player is a completely ...

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Ever since Sony introduced me to portable music with its iconic Walkman series, my enormous collection of tunes has never been far from reach. I've been through tape cassette players, mini-Disc and CD ...

Astell&Kern’s Kann Cube is designed to drive almost any headphone on the market and serve as the high-res and streaming centerpiece of any reference audio system. Astell&Kern launched its newest ...

If you truly care about the sound quality of your music, you'd stop listening to it on your smartphone and rather invest in an MP3 player. You might wonder that the days of a dedicated MP3 player are ...

After having tried out (reasonably) cost-effective high-quality headphones, along with computer-connected DACs and amplifiers for them, I thought it might be interesting to also pair the former with a ...

Do you remember the iPod Shuffle or iPod Nano -- those tiny music players barely larger than a postage stamp? The Shuffle had no screen, just buttons and music. The 6th-gen Nano had a tiny screen, but ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Dec. 14, 2004 - Digital Mind Corporation (DMC), the California based technology company that recently released the world's first 100GB portable audio player, today announced the ...

Sony’s Walkman portable audio cassette player in 1979 improved on the transistor radio by allowing people to take their preferred music wherever they went (engineer Nobutoshi Kihara supposedly ...

August 13, 2006 With MP3 player sales booming and threatening to become a disruptive media technology, the BBC is planning to develop a “plug-in gadget that turns MP3 players into digital radios.” ...

Oct. 23, 2001 -- Apple Computer is trying to byte into the consumer music market. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has introduced its new iPod, a portable music player that stores digital songs in ...