Sony's smartphone team has enlisted the help of the Walkman division to boost audio quality on this new handset. The Sony Xperia 1 VII remains one of the very few flagship phones to include a 3.5mm ...

Dolby Atmos Music is the same object-based audio system used in cinemas and home theaters to create incredibly immersive sound experiences, but it’s been adapted for studio-recorded and live music.

The Austrian Audio Hi-X20 are on sale now, and in the United Kingdom they sell for £120 per pair. The going rate in the United States is $150, while in Australia it’s around AU$250.

Polk’s flagship hi-fi system, the Magnifi Max AX SR, with 7.2.1 channel audio, is $899, which would be a good option for a serious home-cinema fanatic.

Many of us are digging around in drawers for ancient Walkmans or old hi-fi components, but they’re getting thin on the ground. According to the internet, Lexus’s SC430 was the last production car to ...

Hisense has debuted a new wireless surround system during CES 2025. The HT Saturn system is much like products from rivals, such as Sony, but comes with its own subwoofer and could be more affordable.

Beastie Boys’ MCA Put a Hi-Fi DAT Sound System in His Cadillac Just to Listen to Studio Mixes The Beastie Boys had impeccable musical taste, but Adam Yauch also had taste for high-tech audio in ...

Some streamers go above and beyond Take the MB25 as a prime example. McIntosh’s latest wireless streamer does exactly what other Bluetooth streamers do: it adds Bluetooth streaming to a new or vintage ...

My mindset and audio rig would appear, at first sight, to be stuck in those halcyon hi-fi days. Yet, and I would argue this point vigorously, my musical tastes are extremely eclectic, with a CD ...

The portable cassette player is back again (Image credit: Future) If that’s not old-school enough, feast your eyes on this ode to the original 1979 Sony Walkman, the FiiO C13.

And there are other fine 3D object-oriented immersive audio formats like DTS:X and Sony 360 Reality Audio. (Many, though not all, of the best surround sound systems support those, too.) ...