There’s a lot of confusion as to what “high fidelity” means nowadays. The streaming industry has changed the game once and for all, but also the technologies used to reproduce audio faithfully keep evolving, transcending what we know about accuracy and immersiveness in sonic reproduction.
Today, we’re overwhelmed by the number of portable devices available to music enthusiasts willing to invest in a dedicated music player.
In this article, we’ll look at the best portable audio players on today’s market, ranging from simple and affordable MP3 players to high-end, hi-res DAPs to experience the music in the highest possible fidelity.
Last month, I created a sound installation for an art organization in Fukuoka, Japan, as part of an art residency program. When the time came to upload the nine-hour sound installation to some playback device and run it through the PA system in the gallery, it turned out my good old MP3 player, connected to a power bank charger, was the best option.
I don’t even remember why I took it with me, and yet it turned out to be quite a useful thing to have at the time.
Before the digital era we’re living in, storing and preserving media was no trivial task. Archives all over the world have been designed to preserve human works of all kinds so that future generations could experience them centuries after they were made.
There are various factors and sectors pushing spatial audio technology relentlessly forward, but whether you’re a gamer, a cinephile, or a music enthusiast, you’ll probably know this technology is here to stay and is drastically changing the game of sonic perception.
If, for the first time in your life, you invested in a pair of professional headphones, it’s perfectly reasonable that you’re trying to figure out whether you made a good investment or not by testing them out: after all, what sounds good to you might actually not be how the music is supposed to sound like, right? Well, that’s kind of wrong.