We understand that it must be great not to have a load of tangly cables wrapped around your lugholes, but try as we might we just can’t get comfortable with the notion of sticking a Bluetooth headset on our bounce.
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About to start shipping is the new Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet, a rather snazzy multimedia gizmo offering mobile web surfing, MP3 and video playback and optional TV recording.
If you’re still feeling the love for your old vinyl tunes but the thought of getting up from your Ottoman every twenty minutes to turn over Supertramp’s ‘Crime of the Century’ is too much to bear, then the Ion LP 2 CD combo record player/CD burner could be for you.
Continue reading Ion LP2 CD Offers PC-Free Vinyl To CD Conversion
For cool cats who demand the iciest of speakers, Harman Kardon’s delightfully daft GLA-55 two-piece computer speakers could be just the thing.
Looking like they’ve been hewn out of a chunk of Titanic-sinking pure iceberg, the see-through speakers certainly catch the eye and the Harman Kardon dudes love them so much that they’ve lobbed the Big Book Of Modesty on the bonfire, proclaiming their icy creation as being, “arguably the best 2.0 speaker system available today.”
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Sony New Zealand (of all places) is the first to release details of the company’s new E series of MP3 players, each sporting
a 2.0 inch QVGA TFT LCD screen supporting 262,144 colours.
The players come with three different memory capacities, with the NWZ-E435 offering 2GB, NWZ-E436 4GB and the top of the range NWZ-E438 serving up just 8GB of storage (come on Sony – folks are getting used to 16GB and 32GB capacities now and 8GB is, like, sooooo 2007).
Continue reading Sony Announces NWZ-E435, NWZ-E436, NWZ-E438 PMPs
Back in the day, musicians on the road had to make do with scribbling on the back of beer mats when inspiration struck, but thanks to Tascam’s GT-R1 Portable Guitar/Bass Recorder, musos can lay down the licks in a tick with this pocket sized, high end digital recorder
Looking a bit like it’s mated with a mini-Cyberman, the GT-R1 is a high quality, portable audio recorder for capturing your ‘licks’ to MP3/WAVE at 48/44.1 kHz, 24-bits uncompressed.
The unit comes with a backlit 128 x 64 graphic LCD and and a 1GB SDHC memory card, leaving you ample time to throw some shapes and lay down your finest hammers ons, pull offs, slides, whammy bar wobblings and note bendings.
The SDHC slot means that you can add higher capacity cards letting hit your vibrato and go for a bite.
The unit comes with multiple effects built-in, no less than 55 preset rhythm patterns and packs a cunning “trainer” function which allows axe-wielders to rock along to their fave tracks at their choice of speed — without changing the pitch.
The Tascam comes in a rather pleasing orange/red finish which looks like it could survive being stepped on by drunken drummers or being hit by Derek Smalls’ codpiece enhancer.
There’s no UK release date planned yet, but the Tascam GT-R1 will be out in Japan on August 26th, with a retail price around £160 ($310).
Yesterday we gave an overview of the Teac Reference DR-H300DAB and looked at its usability.
Viewing tests
The Teac did a pretty job playing back DVDs through a conventional TV and it even had a pretty good stab at upscaling to 720p and 1080i video resolutions, although a few jagged edges and over-bright colours occasionally gave the game away.
Continue reading Teac Reference DR-H300DAB DVD Receiver – Review Part 2/2 (74%)
Compact receiver packs hi-fi performance and DVD playback in a stylish package.
Looking dapper with its old-school looks, stylish brushed steel finish and promising oodles of hi-fi goodness is Teac’s DR-H300DAB DVD Receiver.
Aimed at space-strapped folks looking for a lorra entertainment without the need to fill up the room with half of ton of cables’n’components, the DR-H300DAB packs a CD player (CD-R/RW, MP3, WMA, PictureCD and DivX; 3.11, 4.x, 5.x) and a DAB/FM RDS receiver.
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This is the second part of the review. Yesterday we introduced the Motorola S9 review of the wireless headphones and covered the remote media controls.
Use as a phone headset
Pressing the call button when you’re listening to music automatically pauses the track and any voice-dialling commands that you utter are passed over to the handset, dialling the number, if configured.
Continue reading Motorola S9 Review: Stereo Bluetooth Headset pt 2 (Score 72%)
We’ve been using the S9 stereo bluetooth headset from Motorola for quite a long time now.
The concept behind them is intriguing – being able to enjoy music without having to deal with the wires that normally get caught up between headphones and the music player – but they’re more than that. You can step backwards and forwards through the tracks and make and receive phone calls.
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