Astell & Kern has launched what it describes as the world's first digital audio player "to create a sound signature uniquely tailored to the user’s hearing". The new A&K PD20 shapes its sound to fit ...

Audio Majority's budget audio sub-brand just unveiled blindingly cheap speakers, MP3 players and soundbars — and I'm gonna ...

Driven by nostalgia for 'simpler' times and viral social media, people are choosing 'single-purpose' music players over smartphones to avoid ads, apps, and distractions.

We live in an age of obsolescence. If you are 45 years old you will have seen vinyl rendered archaic by a wave of similarly replaceable technologies: the cassette, the CD, the MP3 player, and the ...

Coined by The Cut ’s Kathryn Jezer-Morton, friction-maxxing is a 2026 trend that involves intentionally adding inconvenience and analog, “slow” processes back into daily life to combat digital ...

The different models include iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle and iPod Mini. Apple last updated the iPod in 2019, and the last model produced — the 7th generation iPod Touch — was ...

Coined by The Cut ’s Kathryn Jezer-Morton, friction-maxxing is a 2026 trend that involves intentionally adding inconvenience, struggle, and analog, “slow” processes back into daily life to combat the ...

Snowsky Echo Mini is a cassette-style MP3 player that cuts phone listening; features USB-C, Bluetooth, and microSD, with offline playback, drag and drop ...

Grab your corded headphones: People are snapping up Apple's retired MP3 players for nostalgia and a break from smartphones.

Gary Allen, a new Prime Video UK documentary, examines the double murder case investigated by South Yorkshire and ...

Replace Spotify with a simple self-hosted music stack and upgrade it into a powerful, private streaming setup on your own terms.

Everyone knows Blu-ray looks fantastic, but its audio properties are less well known. In fact, the superior sound quality could be what helps the format not only survive the streaming age, but thrive.