Digital music players and smartphones pretty much caused an extinction event for portable analog audio. But RecordingTheMasters is banking on a comeback for tapes with the launch of Mystik ...

Fiio X7 review: A portable digital audio player designed for high-resolution sound The X7 provides access to files and formats that some players—incuding Apple's—don't support. By Kirk McElhearn ...

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 ...

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I’m looking for recommendations on portable music players/MP3 players that don’t have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth (which seems to rule out any modern Android based player).

Astell & Kern has launched a clever twist on its tried-and-tested hi-res music player formula. The new A&K PD10 is a portable music player that you can listen to on the go, but it also comes with a ...

The thing is, most of the best portable music players tend to cost some serious cash (at least over £500/$500), and that's not always ideal in these times of economic uncertainty. A&K's sub-brand ...

There was a brief time in the early 2000s when we carried cellphones, wallets, keys, and a bespoke digital media player loaded with a small selection of our music libraries. Devices like iPods, Zun… ...

Evincing the precision and build quality of a Swiss watch, Astell&Kern’s player is pure audio jewelry, with finely finished ...

These days, most portable MP3 players triple up as voice recorders and video players too, and they’re also engineered to play other file formats besides just MP3 (I.e. WAV, APE, FLAC).

Since the whole purpose of the device is to play audio, onboard filtered PWM wasn’t going to cut it, so instead a 24-bit DAC talks to the Pi via I2S. The audio player backend is VLC, so there ...

In honor of its 60th anniversary, Audio-Technica is rereleasing the AT-727, its iconic portable record player better known as the Sound Burger. This time, it arrives with a few hardware updates ...