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Best Bluetooth speakers 2024: tried and tested for every budget
Oct 15, 2024 · Bluetooth speakers are one of the simplest ways to get your music playing wherever you are. The wire-free wonders come in so many sizes and shapes that their various use cases are near-endless, from using one in your office to popping a compact model in a backpack and taking it to the park or up a mountainside.
Best in-ear headphones 2024: top earbuds tried and tested by our ...
Oct 14, 2024 · I am the Deputy Editor of What Hi-Fi? and a consumer electronics journalist with nearly 20 years of experience writing news, reviews and features. I've tested dozens and dozens of in-ear headphones during this time, from wired to wireless models, and across all budgets.
Best soundbars 2024: options for every need, recommended by …
Sep 17, 2024 · I'm What Hi-Fi?'s TV & AV Editor, and I've been testing soundbars ever since they became a serious category in the mid-2000s. While I personally love AVRs and dedicated speaker systems, I'm well aware that they are not for everyone. A soundbar, on the other hand, is an easy way to massively upgrade your home cinema experience.
Where can you buy hi-res music? Here are the top download sites
Sep 6, 2022 · (Image credit: 7digital) • Hi-res sampling rates available: 24-bit/44.1kHz to 24-bit/192kHz • Hi-res file formats available: FLAC. With a strong catalogue of hi-res music from all genres and a website that makes buying music easy, 7digital is a good all-rounder.
What is a DAC? And why do you need one anyway?
Aug 22, 2024 · Built into the likes of computers, tablets and smartphones, a DAC is fundamental to unlock digital music. It converts the countless reams of a digital song's data into analogue signals that are intelligible to the likes of speakers and headphones – and the human ear.
Best wireless speakers 2024: tried and tested by our expert team
Oct 16, 2024 · The past few years have been huge for wireless speakers – many are included in our Award-winning stable, with 2024 already seeing further strides in this exciting arena.With Sonos impressing us with their Era 100 and Era 300, the resurgence of the Apple HomePods and some stellar news efforts from Audio Pro and KEF, you're spoiled for choice.
Best hi-fi systems 2024: CD, vinyl and streaming music players for …
Oct 2, 2024 · Each kind is covered in this buying guide's top 10 picks, as well as our Also Consider section, but they all share one thing in common: class-leading performance at their price. They all combine best-in-class features and intuitive control too. Our expert in-house reviews team tests hi-fi systems throughout the year and across the market, with every one benchmarked against its closest competitors.
Apple Music lossless: which devices will (and won't) play lossless …
Oct 31, 2023 · (Image credit: Future) Another new addition to Apple Music is Spatial Audio, which is designed to provide "multidimensional sound and clarity" delivering surround sound and 3D audio via your headphones (and other devices).. Spatial Audio was initially launched as part of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, and the newer Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos feature for Apple Music arrived as part of the iOS 14.6 ...
We tested 20+ compact hi-fi systems – and these are the 5 we'd …
Oct 25, 2022 · For the just-announced What Hi-Fi? Awards 2022, we tested more than 20 systems in our ‘Systems’ category alone, from just-add-speakers streaming amplifiers to all-in-one and active speaker systems.We saw examples of the former from the likes of Naim, Marantz, Mission, Technics and Audiolab, and those of the latter from KEF, Audio Pro, Triangle, Q Acoustics and JBL.