Step into a revolution of sound – Apple Music has transformed into a wonderland of Dolby Atmos Music tracks (courtesy of Apple’s mind-bending Spatial Audio wizardry) alongside a treasure trove of ...

If you consider yourself an audiophile, you're probably not content with traditional audio streaming services, which lock you into compressed, lossy audio formats playing at 16-bit/44.1kHz. This is CD ...

If you are a paying Apple Music subscriber, you can listen to lossless-quality audio tracks. Since early June 2021, Apple has been updating its entire Apple Music catalog with its new lossless audio ...

With the advent of smartphones, iPods have been long forgotten. So I challenged myself to use my old iPod touch for a week to ...

Music mixed in stereo spans left and right to make use of our two ears, but music in Apple's Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos adds more dimension to songs. As with anything in audio, it's much easier to ...

Stereo sound has ruled music production for decades, but much like mono sound before it, stereo’s time may be slowly coming to an end. Over the past few years, there’s been a growing movement in the ...

Here is a little-known fact about music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music: they all let you listen to audio at different resolutions. A lesser-known fact: the default playback setting on ...

Home audio is a notoriously thorny life pursuit. For one, it gets expensive really fast. It is incredibly easy to drop a lot of money on a system and still not be particularly satisfied with the end ...

is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, home theater, smartphones, and more. Late on Monday night, Apple flipped the switch on ...

Listening bars, often referred to as jazz kissas — where people can relax and listen to vinyl records carefully selected by a bartender over a high fidelity sound system — have been popular in Japan ...

We independently review everything we recommend. We may get paid to link out to retailer sites, and when you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Samantha Schoech Samantha ...