When you enter the building that houses Apple’s audio lab, venture just beyond reception and you’ll encounter a massive vintage stereo setup. The deck and accompanying speakers were a gift from Steve ...

The Fantasia Lab uses a spherical array of 50 loudspeakers to simulate hundreds of real-world sound scenes. Apple developed its groundbreaking Hearing Health experience for AirPods Pro 2 in its ...

It’s not often that Apple provides a glimpse at the inner workings of its development labs. One notable exception was in early 2018, when the first HomePod launched and Apple provided a special look ...

I visited Qualcomm's audio development lab in San Diego to hear some of the newest tricks from Snapdragon Sound, like lossless audio over Bluetooth and head-tracking spatial audio. I’m PCMag’s home ...

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