Starting in the 1970s boom boxes provided the soundtrack of urban life — on the street, buses, subways, parks, and beaches — boom boxes were everywhere. Now they’re almost defunct, music has moved ...

Fact: Bluetooth was never designed to be an audio-streaming protocol. Sure, it's getting better thanks to higher bitrate ceilings and codecs like aptX. But the 30-foot wireless signal is still more ...

Here’s a 24-year-old JVC PC-X100 boom box sitting atop a brand-new Aiwa EXOS-9 Bluetooth speaker.Steve Guttenberg/CNET How do the latest Bluetooth speakers compare with the sound of boom boxes made a ...

With a retro look combined with brand new tech, the cassette tape format continues to make a bit of a comeback. We Are Rewind GB-001 is following on from the global smash of the original WE-001 ...

In the early days of hip hop, break dancers would perform on flattened cardboard boxes to beating boom boxes. Fast-forward a few decades and check how German art director Bartek Elsner has combined ...

I've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. Apparently someone out there needed to listen to FM radio while playing with the Game Boy Color, and Pelican Accessories answered the call.