What Hi-Fi? on MSN

We've tested FiiO's full-size S15 music streamer, but is it as impressive as it sounds on paper?

Clearly, this is an ambitious and adventurous company, so when it launches its first full-size music streamer, we can’t wait ...
EDN

Sonic excellence: Music (and other audio sources) in the office, part 1

This engineer could have just stuck with the Gateway 2000-branded, Altec Lansing-designed powered speaker set. But where’s ...
autoweek

Nissan’s Personalized Audio Is a Hearing Test for Your Car

Nissan demonstrated a feature of Google built-in it calls Personalized Audio. With it, a simple test shows your range of hearing and adjusts for it. Mott the Hoople never sounded so good! Did you know ...
What Hi-Fi?

A Rotel first, a Cambridge Audio streaming amp, and the Philips OLED910 – these are the 5 exciting products we have in for testing

It's nearly Christmas! But wait – before we start counting down the sleeps and getting ourselves merry on mugs of mulled wine, we have a handful of hi-fi and AV treats waiting for us in the What Hi-Fi ...
GameSpot

Battlefield 6 Testing Better Footstep Audio, Hit Registration In Short-Notice BF Labs Session

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Battlefield 6's testing program, Battlefield Labs, is back, this time for a short-notice test that will focus on improvements like better footstep ...
Wired

Review: Meze Audio 105 Silva Headphones

Plush, cushioned, and extremely comfortable. Luxury design for less. Beautifully made. Hugely enjoyable performance. Easy to drive. Easy to repair. Up against some tough competition. Sound profile won ...
gearpatrol

Apple’s Secretive AirPod Testing Lab Is a Hi-Fi Fan’s Dream

You probably don’t associate Apple with Colorado or hi-fi audio. But the Cupertino-based tech giant has quietly spent the last few years setting up shop in Boulder, where it develops upcoming hardware ...
IEEE

Consistency-Queried Transformer for Audio-Visual Segmentation

Abstract: Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) aims to segment objects in audio-visual content. The effective interaction between audio and visual features has garnered significant attention from the ...
Mashable

I tested OpenAI Sora 2 vs Google Veo 3 for AI video, and there’s a very clear winner

AI-generated videos and images used to be so easy to spot (remember Will Smith eating spaghetti?). But the latest AI video models are getting good — scary good. So, which AI video model wins out in a ...
IEEE

Collaborative Transformer Prototype Network With Pretrained Contrastive Language-Audio Encoder for Open Set Audio Recognition

Abstract: Transformer models have achieved remarkable success in audio recognition, with the Swin Transformer standing out due to its ability to capture long-range dependencies in audio signals.
Cult of Mac

Audio experts blind-test 6 premium headphones — you won’t believe which pair wins

When stripped of branding, features and design, how do premium headphones actually sound? Wired put this question to the test by having audio pros blind-test six popular over-ear headphones. The ...