Tag: audio
Our favorite budget audiophile brand just launched a new tiny add-on to bring aptX Lossless and LDAC to any phone – yes, including your iPhone
Lossless, low-latency wireless audio for any USB-C source Use your lossless / LDAC headphones with Apple devices $59 / £49.99 Fiio has announced a new pocket-sized Bluetooth transmitter, the Air Link. It delivers LDAC and the full aptX codec suite – including aptX Adaptive and aptX Lossless – to pretty…
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Looking to get a beginner turntable over Black Friday? I’ve picked 3 budget record players you should look for, all tested and approved by our experts
Audio-Technica’s Bluetooth turntables are solid buys Pro-Ject’s Juke Box costs more but does everything House of Marley bundles may be worth seeking out It’s that time of year: the weather’s changing, there’s finally good stuff on TV, and my email inbox is already full of firms talking about Black Friday…
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These headphones have become my absolute fave – and they’ve hit their lowest ever price in this early Black Friday deal
I’ve spent years putting headphones through their paces and have tested some of the best products on the market, so I’m not easily impressed. But even I was taken aback when I saw that you can buy the Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 for $384.99 (was $449) at Amazon US.…
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The 4 best all-new headphones I listened to at the Paris Audio Show 2025
Often, when I attend elite, high-end audio-slash-hi-fi shows, I find my mind wandering to the dwellings I could have owned – you know, if I’d ever really made it. The loft apartment in Manhattan with an excellent vinyl storage system; the little place nobody knows about up in the hills…
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Love the new B&O Beo Grace’s aluminium design, but blanch at their four-figure price? These $49 earbuds are dead ringers
When Bang & Olufsen (B&O) introduced its latest wireless earbuds at the end of September – the eye-wateringly pricey Beo Grace – I had an immediate moment of deja vu. One look at their slender, cylindrical aluminium stems and ergonomically shaped main housings, and I knew I’d seen this design…
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Bowers & Wilkins wins TechRadar’s Headphones of the Year Award for the second year running – and I’d wager it knew the trophies were coming
I’m not sure Bowers & Wilkins cares for accolades, reader – and yet this is what its engineers are going to get from me, and from this publication, until the brand ceases to set new benchmarks for audio quality within the category of wireless headphones. You probably know just as…
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