When shopping for a new pair of headphones, one of the most important choices you'll make is whether to go with an open-back or closed-back design. This key difference greatly affects how your headphones sound and feel. So, which type is right for you?

You might have seen the news reports with tongue-in-cheek segments noting the uptick in people collecting and listening to cassette tapes. Yes, those fiddly plastic rectangles I thought we'd left long behind once people figured out how to put a CD player in a car.

Against all my personal expectations that the fad would pass, vinyl records continue to be popular and there are hobbyists all over the world saying "no thanks" to digital music and prefer dropping a needle onto a vinyl disc.

Budget audiophile brand WiiM is taking on Sonos with a new smart speaker and wireless subwoofer. These products, called the WiiM Sound and WiiM Sub Pro, offer lossless Wi-Fi streaming and can pair with other WiiM devices for whole-home audio functionality.

The most important aspects of headphones are things like comfort, sound quality, and features. However, they're also something we wear on our bodies, or leave out in the open when not using them, so what a pair of cans look like is also pretty high up on the list.

Eclipsa Audio promises to democratize spatial audio technology with its open-source and royalty-free approach. But how does it work, and what differentiates it from popular surround sound formats such as Dolby Atmos and DTS:X?

I'm not writing this piece to say that streaming music is bad, but when everything is handed to you, there's no real discovery, just mere consumption. The emotional bond that came from curating an MP3 collection, from physically or digitally managing files and playlists, is largely gone.

Listening to your own music in your car rather than the radio was a luxury that few could imagine. It's not like you could bring your vinyl records with you—or could you?