Sony starts shipping a pair of wireless speakers-- the SRS-X7 and SRS-X5, both packing Bluetooth connectivity with AAC and aptX support, ClearAudio+ and one-touch listening via NFC within a minimalist design.

Also featured is wired input via 3.5mm jack and USB, as well as with dual-passive radiator subwoofers.

Aether claims customers will be able to cut through the hassle of sorting through music streaming services with the Cone, a wireless speaker able to learn what and when users like to listen to.

Unsurprisingly shaped like a soft-edged cone, the speaker connects to home networks and streaming services via wifi (no sources confirmed other than Airplay compatibility) and features a single means of control-- a dial built inside the speaker grill.

Turning the dial right plays another track, turning left replays the previous track, tapping the centre pauses playback and big twist plays a random track as based on previous user preferences. Users can also summon speech-based control for specific requests by holding the centre button.

Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young reveals his long-awaited take on audiophile-grade audio with PonoMusic, an online high-resolution music store paired with the PonoPlayer portable music player.

"It's about the music, real music," Young says. "We want to move digital music into the 21st century and PonoMusic does that."

The system promises "the finest quality, highest-resolution digital music," with a desktop app allowing customers to download, manage and sync music with PonoPlayer devices and other high-resolution music players.

Meanwhile the player is a supposedly "no-compromise" number. The Toblerone bar-shaped casing and features control via LCD touchscreen, 128GB of storage (holds 100-500 high-resolution files according to Pono), Ayre Acoustics digital-to-analog conversion technology and "perfectly flat" frequency response from nearly any headphones.

Onkyo teams up with processor solutions developer Imagination Technologies to create what is described as "the next generation of wireless audio music streaming systems and the global expansion of High Quality Audio."

No details of the results of said team up are available as yet, but one can assume a wireless speaker system is on the works at Onkyo. After all, part of the agreement involves Onkyo licensing a pair of relevant Imagination technologies-- Caskeid and FlowCloud.

Caskeid is an audiophile-grade wireless multiroom streaming technology. It is based on Bluetooth and wifi, and promises "a true "wifi hifi" experience that is good enough to replace wires."

Meanwhile FlowCloud technology connects devices to the internet for easy product registration, updates and access to partner-enabled services.