We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There was a time, not so long ago, when most of us were perfectly content with our 32-inch CRT screens and their tinny, built-in speakers.

In recent years, recorded audio has undergone a renaissance thanks to the breakthrough of podcasts. It’s now easy to record audio and share it online, and things that used to require access to a ...

Music artists and their production teams spend countless hours writing, recording, and mixing songs, meticulously shaping every note and texture so each track sounds just right. Yet when that same ...