The Astell & Kern A&ultima SP4000 is the brand’s newest flagship digital audio player, and it is priced accordingly. If you measure the worth of a product by how relatively heavy and remarkably shiny ...

You might be surprised to learn that MP3 players still exist. Not only that, but they’re popular with people who take their music seriously – the kind that roll their eyes at lossy Spotify streams and ...

Astell&Kern (A&K) have announced that it will be debut its new flagship digital audio player, the A&Ultima SP4000, at High End Munich in Germany on May 15. The iRiver subsidiary also announced it will ...

Dec. 13 -- If you want to give the gift of music this holiday, and ring in the New Year with some rocking new gear, tiny MP3 players with a giant sound might be the way to go. Digital audio technology ...

The concept of a portable digital audio player (DAP) goes back to 1979, the beginning of the bits- and-bytes era of music recording. At the time, all such devices—like most digitally recorded music of ...

View of the Apple iTunes Music Store, which launched in April 2003, two years after the release of iTunes in January 2001 Photo by Apple Computer / Getty Images Throughout the 20th century, the ...