These MP3 players from FiiO, Sony and Actico are at the forefront of a digital-library revival - here's my top choices ...

Video killed the radio star, as the song goes. But people still listen to radio. Compact Discs sounded the death knell for vinyl, but records have bounced back big time. Digital music players and ...

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 ...

Every audiophile wants access to their high-quality music files while on the go, and Astell&Kern has just released a suite of new gear to help fulfill that need. Priced at $700, the AK70 MK II is the ...

What' s the best Sony Walkman? Perhaps one of the following models. Check out this history of the once-popular consumer ...

Portable audio should by all rights by extinct, such is the ubiquity and ease of streaming music and podcasts from one’s smart device. Yet scan through the list of manufacturers supplying pocketable ...

Onkyo just released the DP-X1 portable digital audio player, which will play MQA encoded music files (after software update) for the audio purists. MQA is a revolutionary end-to-end technology that ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.,June 21, 2005 — The exploding market for both hard disk drive and Flash-based portable audio players is expected to reach more than 104 million ...

Today Victor-JVC announced [JP] they will be adding a new portable audio player to their Alneo series of portable media players, the XA-M10/20/40. Hitting Japan in early September, the 1GB XA-M10 is ...

Apple settles lawsuit with Creative Apple has announced that it will pay US$100 million to Creative Technology to settle patent lawsuits over technology for navigating through songs on the popular ...

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 ...

Check out our review of the Astell & Kern AK240 audio player. Since first debuting its portable HD audio device at CES last year, the AK 100, Astell&Kern has been very busy. The company updated its ...