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New Products
Coming early 2025, Marantz previews two modern luxury wireless speakers featuring unique technology, priced at $3,500 and $5,500.
Movies
High-end audio, wireless headphone chaos, Spotify’s fake “lossless,” and Hollywood’s latest implosion — from Taylor Swift’s box office reign to Marvel’s flops, the dogs...
Music Streamers
Spotify Premium launches Lossless audio for $11.99/month, delivering higher quality music streaming but stops short of 24-bit/96kHz or higher hi-res.
Amplifiers
Just add in-ceiling speakers to Q Acoustics 300A Ceiling Amplifier to bring streaming music and Amazon Alexa into any room.
Music Streamers
For $1199, the Shanling SM1.3 music streamer comes loaded with features including MQA, DSD512 and up to 32-bit/768kHz hi-res audio.
Music
Ad-free music listening with Spotify Premium now costs $1 more at $11.99/month, while a family plan is up $3 to $19.99/month.
Blu-ray, DVD & 4K Media Players
Can the $1,600 Denon DNP-2000NE Network Player measure up to the competition in a very crowded category?
Music Streamers
Beoconnect Core seamlessly adds digital music streaming capabilities to Bang & Olufsen powered speakers.
Music
New streaming playlists for R&B, EDM, Hip Hop/Rap, and Rock include music from twenty engineers using Focal Pro monitors.
Exclusive Videos
Ealan Osborne investigates why Spotify's business model may have been doomed to fail from the beginning.
Music
Now you can save songs directly from TikTok into your Spotify account, eliminating the need to switch apps to find a song.
Music Streamers
The $219 WiiM Pro Plus Network Streamer offers both digital and analog inputs and outputs and features a high-end DAC to support Hi-Res streaming.
Music
Spotify Premium subscribers will see the price for their ad-free subscription increase starting on Monday. Still no Spotify Hi-Fi for that extra money.
Articles
The music streaming algorithms are designed to get you to listen longer, but is it really better for you?
Music
Is it really happening? Spotify Hi-Fi might actually show up in Q4 2023. We still don't know how much more it will cost.
New Products
Made in Poland, Pylon Audio's high-end wireless speakers support WiSA HT, Apple AirPlay 2, and Chromecast as well as wired XLR.
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