Which home audio CD player is best? In today’s fast-moving streaming-first world, it can be hard to comprehend still using physical music media. What many people don’t realize is that you pay in audio ...

Music player apps are still a big part of the Android experience, even in a world dominated by streaming. While services like Spotify get most of the attention, plenty of people still rely on local ...

The Functionalist design philosophy that Dieter Rams brought to Braun from the 50s to the 90s still inspires the look of a few devices, including Apple’s iPod, Teenage Engineer’s synthesizers and ...

Maxell is a heritage Japanese audio and electronics manufacturer with a history dating back to the 1960s. Over the years, the brand has become synonymous with audio cassettes and other recordable ...

I suppose the upturn in the fortunes of the Compact Disc was inevitable. Much like the resurgence of vinyl as a popular audio storage format, the revival of CD as a viable audio storage format is ...

Vinyl records are firmly back in rotation, but getting started does not have to mean spending a fortune or building a complicated hi-fi stack from day one. Whether you want a simple, all-in-one setup ...

Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus and Stacy Rost preview Super Bowl LX from Radio Row in San Francisco. Today's show: Seahawks Senior Writer John Boyle Joins the Show (00:33), ESPN's Louis Riddick Joins the ...

“No one really makes a bad product anymore.” That’s the comment we’ve been hearing for the past couple of years when meeting with hi-fi manufacturers, and they’re not wrong. The world of hi-fi has ...

February 13, 2026 • August Ponthier. Brent Faiyaz. Jill Scott's first album in more than a decade. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by Nastia Voynovskaya from KQED in San Francisco to chat about ...