The scientist who helped develop the Harman target revisited listener data and still recommends two broad tone controls.

Alexandra Plesa is an Audio Writer at Headphonesty. She has more than 10 years of journalistic experience. Deeply immersed in music and audiobooks, she has honed her expertise in evaluating audio ...

A regular player isn't worse for having more inside it. The budget just gets split across everything it does, and your DAC decides if you'll notice.

Audiophiles have used words like “glassy” and “hard” to describe unpleasant treble for decades, so glass arrives as a speaker material with a reputation already attached to it. That reputation matters ...

Alexandra Plesa is an Audio Writer at Headphonesty. She has more than 10 years of journalistic experience. Deeply immersed in music and audiobooks, she has honed her expertise in evaluating audio ...

Its economics add another layer. Audioholics says major brands can operate on 40- to 60-point margins and gives one example where a $600 retail speaker may contain roughly $60 in drivers and crossover ...

One designer says that arrival is the sound of something going wrong. Szymon Rutkowski of Graphite Audio says metal, ceramic and bearing-based supports can introduce a character of their own. If so, ...

Extra conversion and uneven results across listening seats remain separate concerns that ART’s narrower approach cannot ...

A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with no dedicated DAC chip sounds like a contradiction. XMOS has built one anyway. Its ...

iPhones make the 48 kHz part simpler. Apple’s own documentation says Apple Music Lossless ranges from CD-quality 16-bit/44.1 kHz up to 24-bit/192 kHz, with an [external DAC required for songs above 48 ...

Across the five Bang & Olufsen (B&O) models Best Buy carries, 279 owner verdicts include 30 rated one or two stars, and every ...

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