Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. We live in an age of streaming; all the entertainment we ...

(February 14, 2024) Magnetar Audio is helping consumers establish a new love for physical media and enabling concert fans and movie buffs to reconnect with their beloved Blu-ray Disc collections with ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1999, music consumption was shifting in a new direction. As home internet connections got faster, users discovered improvements that had ...

Getting a better-quality CD experience without having to upgrade your CD player sounds delightful, doesn't it? Sony's new Blu-spec CD format promises just that, employing the same technology used to ...

In the rare case we listen to an audio CD these days, we typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware to decode the 1s and 0s into the dulcet tones of Weird Al Yankovic for our listening pleasure. [Lukas] ...

In the late 20th century, a groundbreaking collaboration between Sony and Philips revolutionized home music. Their joint ...

Fell Audio aims to attract British hi-fi buyers seeking retro aesthetics with value driven audio performance from its inaugural £1000 stack. Fell Audio is a new British hi-fi manufacturer entering a ...

4U is kinda big for a "portable" solution to be used with a laptop. Is your laptop relatively modern? If so, I would inveset in an external firewire enclosure and drive for it rather than a 4U ...

So I'm trying to burn some mixes to CD's to use in my car. Since they are mixes, I cannot have gaps between the tracks. Of course, no burner I have here supports disc-at-once, so I cannot make it work ...

The latest entrant in India taps directly into the nostalgia while packing hardware typically associated with far more ...

Reader Derrick Crandall has one chunk of media that he’d like to turn into more. He writes: I have a concert recording on a Blu-ray disc. I’d like to use my Mac to extract the audio from it so I can ...