Virtually all smartphone manufacturers have eliminated the 3.5mm audio jack even though it has long been the standard connector for a huge range of audio equipment over the past century. Most flagship ...

In a sea of 3D audio products and true-wireless earbuds, USB Type-C headphones were nowhere in sight at CES 2019. This absence isn’t an accident, however. Rather, it’s the deafening silence of an ...

Most consumers are content with the sound that comes out of their wired headphones and earbuds. It’s sufficient for keeping them entertained at their cubicles or during long flights back home for the ...

Intel says there are good reasons to say goodbye to the 3.5mm audio jack and bring headphones, earbuds and microphones into the digital era. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When the world ends, someone somewhere will still be using an M-Audio audio interface. The ...

The death of the headphone jack has been widely lamented. Pick up a flagship phone and you won't see one, it's gone and it's not likely to come back. But that doesn't mean we're left using Bluetooth ...

One of the biggest improvements to hit wireless headphones is the inclusion of lossless audio via USB. Instead of relying on a wireless Bluetooth connection, which always introduces compression and ...

A firmware update will bring lossless audio and ultralow-latency audio to Apple's flagship headphones -- but only over a wired connection. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of ...