If you’re fed up with the puny sound coming from your phone’s built-in speaker, or the less than hi-fi noise coming out of your smartphone dock, it might be time to invest in a wireless music receiver like Nokia’s swishy offering.
UK company Tranquil have released a novel, super-slim Windows 7 media centre PC designed to slip into a home hi-fi stack.
Measuring just 1.5in thick and minimally styled in a stylish matt black finish, the unit looks more like an audiophile CD player than a PC, with the front panel containing nothing more than an on/off button and a CD/DVD writer slot.
Pioneer has sent a range of four new micro-stereo systems thundering down their new product slipway, regaling under the product names X-HM10, X-HM20DAB, X-HM70DAB CD and XC-HM70DAB CD.
There’s no end of weird and wonderful looking powered speakers available for hooking up to iPods, MP3 players and computers, but we were only interested in one thing for Chez Wirefresh: the best possible sound.
Seeing as we listen to music in our office all day long – either blasting out Spotify/Media Monkey through our PC, or playing tunes from iPhones or our Pure DMX-60 DAB/CD player – our budget stretched to around £250.
Boy, do audiophiles have to suffer for their obsession.
Buying a half decent hi-fi, cracking open a beer and blasting out a bit of ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ – digitally remastered, natch – is never enough for these guys (and it is almost always guys into this kind of stuff).
Created by a family business in Brooklyn, USA, Grado’s philosophy is to simply create the best sounding headphones they can, with sound quality being placed far ahead of streetwise looks and funky features.
That’s the kind of philosophy we like when it comes to audio products, and the Grado SR60i’s are certainly gloriously untroubled by the vagaries of fashion, looking look like something WW2 pilots might have strapped on to their heads before going off for a dogfight.
If you listen to the experts, vinyl should be residing in a technology graveyard somewhere, snuggling up next to 8 track cartridges, Amiga computers and Betamax videos, but it’s proving to be the format that really will not die.
According to a new report, the demand for vinyl and turntables is soaring, with the rise particularly evident in New York, where audio outlets are reporting huge increases in LP and turntables sales.
Hi-Fi buffs will still recall the shudder of joy that occurred the first time their ears made contact with the sound of a record played on the Linn Sondek LP12 turntable – one of the finest audio products ever made.
Created by Glasgow-based Linn Products, the turntable set reviewers frothing with superlatives, and set an audio standard which the company has aspired to follow ever since.
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