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 ...

That R2R resistor array DAC architecture is twinned with a multi-stage audio amplifier which, says FiiO, produces clean ...

Competition among audio-chip suppliers is heating up as makers of Internet-enabled portable audio players search for the right file-storage format to win over consumers. Despite an adoption rate that ...

Last month Maxell introduced a new portable cassette player for the Japanese market that combines retro features (it’s… a portable tape cassette player) with modern touches (like a rechargeable ...

Coming this fall for $179, FiiO’s first-ever portable CD player supports Bluetooth, balanced headphone-out, and USB digital audio playback. FiiO is turning back the clock on portable audio playback ...

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Astell&Kern (A&K) has released a new version of its flagship portable digital audio player that is even more portable and more affordable. The A&K A&Ultima SP3000M takes virtually every feature found ...

Panasonic introduced a few portable audio players yesterday that we forgot to mention (although they leaked way back in October), in the “D-snap Audio” line. We’ll start with the “SV-SD100V” and ...

Last month Maxell introduced a new portable cassette player for the Japanese market that combines retro features (it’s… a portable tape cassette player) with modern touches (like a rechargeable ...

This is more of a curiosity question than anything else. Are there any current (manufactured within the last year or two) portable audio players that support FLAC? All of the resources I've seen for ...

CDs and records are making a comeback, but cassettes are an underrated option that combines the portability of CDs with the analog nature of vinyl.