Portable Music Players
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Own a Chord Poly? Then you'll need to install this update if you want 'smooth operation' to continue
By Ainsley Walker published
Poly users will want to update their devices as soon as possible to retain top performance

FiiO's Walkman-inspired cassette player is a blast from the past
By Kashfia Kabir published
FiiO has gone retro and launched a personal cassette player at CES 2024, with a Walkman-inspired design and a March release date.

Best portable music players 2023
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What Hi-Fi? Awards 2023

Yee-haw! Klipsch's Americana-inspired portables are here to lasso the crown from JBL
By Harry McKerrell published
Named after iconic US cities, Klipsch's Music City Series looks charming as a Texas cowboy - but can they unseat the best in town?

Astell & Kern A&ultima SP3000
By What Hi-Fi? published
Astell & Kern’s flagship SP3000 portable music player is hugely expensive but ever so capable.

This retro-tastic Bluetooth cassette player is a modern twist on a 1979 Sony Walkman
By Ainsley Walker published
A fun looking machine with Bluetooth and a rechargeable battery based on a cassette-playing classic

It's still too soon to joke about the death of the iPod
By Lewis Empson published
Apple joked about the unceremonious cancellation of the iPod during its iPhone 15 launch event, and I'm not laughing.

My first MP3 player nearly cost me my degree – but I would use it again in a heartbeat
By Joe Svetlik published
The Rio 600 had only 32MB of memory, a tiny screen and ate through batteries like nobody’s business. Here’s why I still rate it.
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