Tag Archives: audio

There’s more to the future of Lotus than big electric SUVs. That’s what the British company once famous for its lightweight sports cars wants you to believe—and it’s why Lotus has revealed a striking new supercar concept, called Theory 1. To be clear, this is not an electric rebirth of …

If Apple wanted to bury the fact it’s leaving its most expensive headphones as the least technically capable in its lineup, it didn’t do a very good job. It all started promisingly. At Apple’s September Glowtime event, CEO Tim Cook teed up VP of hardware engineering Kate Bergeron for the …

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable. Music …

Just like no one wants to hear a restaurant reviewer complain about eating at high-end restaurants with his friends every night, no one really wants to listen to a gadget reviewer who can’t get a high-end home theater system to work. When I was assigned this piece, I could not …

When setting up my Sonos home theater system, I had a persistent problem. I was trying to add a Sonos wireless subwoofer to my network, but according to Sonos' mobile app, the Sub was nowhere to be found. The app would throw a “Could not connect” message, or—even weirder—show me …

So you're deep into a late-night binge-watching session, and you want to finish off another episode or two. But there's a problem: You don't want to keep the rest of the household or your neighbors awake with the blare of the television set. Either you have to risk annoying other …

We're in the midst of the home recording revolution. Whether you’re a big-name artist like Billie Eilish or a small-time indie musician like me, you can spend just as much time working from home as you do in so-called “real," purpose-built studios when making pro-quality records. Many of your favorite …

Buy a pair of wired headphones, and you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re just plug and play. Stick them into your phone, and out goes the audio up copper cables into your earholes. Simple as that. Trouble is, that straightforward mechanism has gotten more complicated, and in recent years there …

Sonos is at an impasse, and it’s mostly Apple's fault. When what is now the largest cell phone maker in the world forced headphones wireless by removing the jack from the iPhone, the writing was most definitely on the wall. Folks used to pile around a stereo, home theater, or …

I might be old-fashioned, but I like listening to albums. Spotify seems to always be fighting me on this. I like experiencing a collection of songs all at once, played in the order chosen by the artist. I especially like doing this when I discover a new artist: I want …