The Astell & Kern A&ultima SP4000 is the brand’s newest flagship digital audio player, and it is priced accordingly. If you measure the worth of a product by how relatively heavy and remarkably shiny ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. The FiiO M23 can be used with Bluetooth earphones or wired ...

Fiio’s M7 hi-res digital audio player (DAP) delivers wireless hi-res audio in a pocket-sized package for the audiophile on the go. But some head-scratching feature choices keep it off our Editor’s ...

One of the most renowned Big Tech companies in the world continued to deliver a device dedicated to streaming music, and that ...

Ninm Lab is obsessed with retro gadgets, from cameras to cassette decks, and its latest project — the Playdisc — reimagines the humble MP3 player as a digital version of the mixtape (or mixed tape for ...

Now that our smartphones are able to stream or play just about any form of media, one might think that the days of the dedicated MP3 player are over. After all, the most popular one of all time, the ...

Though it seems as if the iPod has been around forever, the device is actually only eight years old as of last week. Portable digital music players in general aren’t much older, as the first clunky, ...

The portable digital audio player (aka the MP3 player) has come along way since its inception. Back in the day, most MP3 players were equipped with either a paltry amount of flash memory (less than ...

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 ...

I got my first taste of the digital counterculture in college. The iPod — only a few years old at that point — was a far cry from today’s iPhone, but a sign of inexplicable style and wealth. I had ...