Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

” Winner: Tie Sound quality is almost identical Amazon describes the Echo Pop’s sound as a “full sound” that’s a good fit for bedrooms and small spaces and the Echo Dot’s sound as a “bigger vibrant sound” for any room.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

And you can always blast your music loud enough to drown out nearby conversations and street noise. Active noise-cancelling headphones electronically cover up the sounds coming from your surroundings. The best over-ear headphones also create a tight seal around your ears, providing an extra layer of passive sound blocking.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

The new iMac, iPad Pro, and Apple TV 4K are all set to start shipping to early preorder customers on or around May 21st, but now it seems there could be two surprise announcements: a hi-fi streaming tier of Apple Music, and maybe even AirPods 3. The Apple Music part seems extremely likely when you factor in a report from 9to5Google.

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Engadget

MARCH 12, 2025

We also liked its bass performance and overall sound quality for either TV or music. However, it didn't create as immersive a sound as larger options, so people with a big space might want to opt for something else. It offers great sound quality and has two tweeters.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Sony is basically handing you a $150 sound upgrade with a smirk. That’s over a full day of wear time for flights, meetings, doomscrolling, and pretending you’re in a music video while doing your laundry. Opens in a new window Credit: Sony Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones $249.99 at Amazon $399.99

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

With its upcoming Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is planning to counter one of the differentiating features of Apple’s AirPods Pro (and now AirPods Max): spatial audio. Spatial audio crams an immersive, surround sound-like experience into a set of earbuds or headphones. But Samsung seems to be readying its own take on spatial audio.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

2021 has been a big year for lossless music now that Apple has gone in on the higher-quality streaming and Amazon is no longer charging an added premium for it. But one of the main challenges confronting lossless audio is how to play it wirelessly (at full fidelity) on wireless headphones and earbuds.

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The Verge

MARCH 25, 2021

Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries smashed a piano into pieces to record sound effects, the studio revealed in a new blog detailing many aspects of the game’s audio production. But 343’s audio team didn’t just use the piano as a target for various blunt instruments. Some of the resulting sounds are spine-chilling.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is set to receive another Dolby Atmos mix, after producer Giles Martin, son of the album’s original producer George Martin, admitted that the current version “doesn’t sound quite right.” The album has effectively lasted through three eras of music: first mono, then stereo, and now spatial audio.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 4, 2021

Qualcomm has introduced Snapdragon Sound, a stamp of approval given to devices that use its best audio technologies to improve the listening experience.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Google’s latest smart speaker has good sound and an attractive price Four years is an eternity in the modern tech product world, but that’s exactly how long it’s been since Google’s first smart speaker, the Google Home , was released. The new Nest Audio sits between the Nest Mini and Home Max in price, size, and output.

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2022

The second-generation AirPods Pro may support Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), and could even come with a case that makes a sound to help you find it, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a note to investors seen by AppleInsider and 9to5Mac.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience Late on Monday night, Apple flipped the switch on two new features for its Apple Music subscription service : immersive Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming. Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of services and the person who oversees Apple Music.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Mine currently sound like they’re being strangled in a sock drawer. Apple threw its best H2 chip inside, giving them punchier bass, clearer calls, and that fancy Personalized Spatial Audio thing that makes it feel like the music is swirling around your head. That’s a 32% discount from the usual $249. I want these.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The sounds of the theremin, once the instrument of the future, have now been tingling our spines for 100 years. Moog says the Claravox offers “the highest quality control and sound available in a theremin.” Electronic instruments, and their inventors and players, are some of the most fascinating elements of music history.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Roku Streambar features four internal speakers that can reportedly fill a room with Dolby Audio. Clever audio settings also allow you to automatically lower loud commercials, increase speech clarity, add depth to music and optimize sound for night listening.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

We felt that the sound was excellent and balanced with solid active noise cancellation (ANC) and an excellent transparency mode so you can hear what's going on around you. In our testing, the AirPods Max met Apple's promise of a 20-hour battery life with both ANC and spatial audio switched on.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Since releasing them last year, Apple has quietly continued to improve upon the AirPods Pro with firmware updates that have tweaked their noise cancellation and sound quality. But last month, the AirPods Pro picked up a pair of new features that Apple did announce: spatial audio and automatic switching.

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2021

Like the pricier, larger Move, Sonos is building its Auto Trueplay audio tuning feature right into the Roam. Connecting to both at once will allow you to play a song from your phone or another device nearby to the Roam over Bluetooth — and that music can then also be played across the rest of your Sonos multi-room system.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Now it sounds like the company might be turning its attention… to sound. startup that features instrumentals that you overlay with your own voice to create short music tracks (and videos), and also lets musicians upload instrumentals that become the basis for those tracks. The results look something like this or this.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

A screenshot of the teaser in Apple Music’s web app. Screenshot: Apple Music. Apple is teasing a major Apple Music announcement. Get ready,” a post in the service’s Browse tab reads, “music is about to change forever.” pic.twitter.com/BEsuEUK7tr — MacRumors.com (@MacRumors) May 16, 2021.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

SEE ALSO: The Apple AirPods Pro 2 are listed for under $170 in the Amazon Spring Sale The sound quality? Calls are clearer thanks to voice isolation, and music sounds richer without having to mess with EQ settings. Calls are clearer thanks to voice isolation, and music sounds richer without having to mess with EQ settings.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

SEE ALSO: The Apple AirPods Pro 2 are listed for under $170 in the Amazon Spring Sale The real story, though, is the sound. These use Apple’s H2 chip, which unlocks Adaptive Audio—a feature that smartly blends noise cancellation and transparency mode based on what’s happening around you. Shocking, I know.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 13, 2021

Want a little more oomph in your music, or need to get that bass rumbling? Here's how to adjust sound settings on Nest Audio.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 9, 2021

Apple is officially rolling out support for spatial audio to Apple Music and more. Here's your guide to everything you need to know about this new audio format.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Earlier today, Sony announced that it would be releasing two new speakers compatible with 360 Reality Audio, its spatial audio technology that replicates the feel of live music by placing different sounds and vocals in a virtual sphere around you. It’s also certified for High-Resolution Audio. Image: Sony.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Streaming music might be entering a new era of hi-fi audio , but Apple’s AirPods Max aren’t technically ready to go along for the ride. The company has confirmed to The Verge that its premium noise-canceling headphones do not natively support playback of lossless music files. Is it still going to sound very good?

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

When Tidal launched in 2014, it was the first music app to stream music at CD-quality. Five years later, Amazon followed Tidal's footsteps and introduced a premium subscription including lossless audio. Earlier this year, Spotify announced it would introduce a CD-quality option to their apps later this year, followed by.

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Engadget

MARCH 13, 2025

" The sound is better-than-ever, thanks to new drivers, amplifiers, transducers and audio algorithms. The battery life is just average, but the charging case helps keep the music going. This purchase comes with the earbuds, four pairs of silicone tips in different sizes, a charging case, a lanyard loop and a USB-C cable.

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

Today, the rock legend has published another letter on his website, describing Spotify as a purveyor of “more songs and less sound.” Throughout the latest post, Young — a longtime advocate of hi-fi sound — heavily criticizes Spotify for its lossy audio quality. It sounded to me like he was really going to be getting into it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Sit quietly for a moment and pay attention to the different sounds around you. These are all noises Cochlear.ai , a Seoul-based sound recognition startup, is training its SaaS platform to identify. will use its Series A on hiring over the next 18 months and to increase the dataset of sounds used to train its deep learning algorithms.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As this is being written, we are still in the midst of the Spotify controversy , during which artists are abandoning the audio service in protest of that company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan. Neil Young was the first to pull his music from the service, followed by Joni Mitchell and others. Amazon Music. Amazon Music.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Earlier this year, Apple officially discontinued Music Memos, an iPhone app that allowed musicians to quickly record audio and develop new song ideas. Walther had previously spent three and a half years at Spotify, following its 2017 acquisition of the audio detection startup Sonalytic , which he had co-founded.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Sonos Arc Ultra is a $999 premium soundbar from the smart home audio brand, and it promises unmatched surround sound thanks to the brand's new Sound Motion technology, which works with Dolby Atmos to fill the room with realistic, perfectly realized sound. Surround sound: 9.1.4 Surround sound: 9.1.4

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

The Solo 4 also introduces new, personalized Spatial Audio with head tracking. This is a great technology that creates a 3D surround sound, and a more immersive listening experience by adjusting sound based on your head movements, so music, movies, and calls feel more lifelike.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2022

Leviathan V2 sound system, following up its previous iteration that launched back in 2014. But, of course, the wired subwoofer is there to further amp up the booming low-frequency sounds. The leftmost button can toggle to a secondary audio source. It just announced the $249.99 Sega Dreamcast for scale.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Last year Apple showed how it could embed Shazam’s music identification features even more deeply within iOS 14 , and now it’s taking things another step forward within Apple Music. Apple Music DJ Mix. Apple Music DJ Mix. This is a new path for getting DJ mixes onto Apple Music alongside older ones like Dubset’s platform.

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