Introducing new PodSpeakers MiniPod BT
07/12/16 05:57 Filed in: New Products
♫ Uniquely designed and a fully wireless standalone or stereo solution for music lovers that want to stand out from the crowd.
Podspeakers introduces new MiniPod BT MKII
The original MiniPod is one of the world’s most recognised loudspeakers, a true design icon, and the model that started it all for Podspeakers. Since first launch from B&W back in the 1990s, the MiniPod has set a benchmark for what can be achieved when moving away from conventional square box designs. Read More...
Podspeakers introduces new MiniPod BT MKII
The original MiniPod is one of the world’s most recognised loudspeakers, a true design icon, and the model that started it all for Podspeakers. Since first launch from B&W back in the 1990s, the MiniPod has set a benchmark for what can be achieved when moving away from conventional square box designs. Read More...
What is Play-Fi
29/10/15 13:50 Filed in: Listen | Industry News
Play-Fi® is premium whole-home wireless audio. Stream your favorite content with astounding audio quality, from every mobile device or directly from this server. All Play-Fi products are seamlessly interoperable, so you can find the perfect speaker for every room, and know that they will all make beautiful music together. With many high quality speaker brands now using Play-Fi technology, it’s easy to set up a whole home wireless network.
Among the brands that are incorporating Play-Fi solutions into their speakers or amps include:
Definitive Technology, Martin Logan, Polk Audio, Paradigm, Anthem, Wren, Arcam & McIntosh
Learn more about Play-Fi here
The All-New PLAY:5 and Trueplay tuning
Sonos is 100% focused on the home listening experience. How to dial it up. How to get the purest, most exact version of your favourite music all the way from the studio to your own front door. With nothing lost along the way.
This fall, SONOS will be giving two great new reasons to love listening at home even more.
Coming this year, a revolutionary, no-holds-barred overhaul of our existing PLAY:5. This ultimate home audio powerhouse is designed to turn every song – from old favorites to new discoveries – into a richer listening experience. Subtle details emerge. Each specific voice and instrument shines through with more intense clarity as listeners connect with the music they love in a fresh and deeper way.
Rest assured, the launch of an all-new PLAY:5 isn’t going to affect our ongoing commitment to current systems. Look forward to regular updates and support for the original PLAY:5 for years to come.
Click here for the full PLAY:5 story
Debuting in a software release later this fall, Trueplay makes every PLAY:1, PLAY:3, and PLAY:5 even smarter. It uses an iPhone or iPad to measure how sound reflects off the walls and other surfaces in any given room. Then fine-tunes the speaker to make sure it sounds great, no matter where you put it.
Click here to learn more about Trueplay
Home Music Listening is Back…Thanks to Home Digital Music Solutions from Company's like Sonos
Remember the good ole’ days in which many homes were equipped with centralized music systems that pumped tunes into each room? The only problem was that such systems came with complex wiring systems and expensive built-in wall consoles, which were quite costly to maintain and nearly impossible to fix if broken.
Thanks to the digital age, technologies like Sonos have made it easy listen to music at home! Now music can be customized per room and controlled wirelessly via your MAC/PC, iPad, iPhone/iPod, or Android. Plus, your music listening options are unlimited as you can access it from Sirius, RDIO, Slacker, iTunes, Window media files, Wolfgang, and other sources.
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Connect with your music like never before with Cambridge Audio's Network Music Player (NP30)
23/11/11 23:37 Filed in: Product Spotlight
Good things come in small packages. The Cambridge Audio NP30 all-in-one network audio player however isn't just good: it's an amazing sounding, brilliantly versatile, very compact and, of course, a perfect example of what contemporary music in the home is all about. Music downloads, high-resolution music files, internet radio, network music, UPnP servers, iPod/MP3 players, USB Music, Wi-Fi streaming - everything that the new era of music delivery can throw at it, the NP30 can play.
Network music players are fast replacing CD players at the heart of many hi-fi systems.
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All New Music Hall A35.2 Integrated Amplifier
28/06/11 15:40 Filed in: New Products
The a35.2 is a big powerful sounding integrated amplifier built to fit neatly into the modern household. Geared primarily toward the music lover with a two channel audio system, we have included a Direct AV input (home theater bypass), for those that want to use the amplifier section of the a35.2 to power the front channels in a home theater set-up. Constructed using the finest parts and hand assembled, the a35.2 is sure to impress. It’s the heart around which a great sounding system can be built.
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Introducing Rega's first DAC (Digital to Anlog Converter)
23/02/11 13:19 Filed in: New Products
When it comes to new products, the folks at Rega are know to take their time! But when a new product come out, it is no slouch either. Two years in the making, Rega’s DAC promises to breather life back into your music. Its performance is way above its price or category.
The Rega DAC is a 16/20/24-bit at 32kHz to 192kHz digital to analogue converter incorporating an enhanced version of the Rega designed circuit. Developed to be simple to set up and use, the Rega DAC is designed to optimize performance from any two channel PCM digital audio source such as a CD player PC or streaming device.
With the PC/Laptop and MAC now widely accepted as creditable mediums for storing and streaming music. The use of high quality lossless files such as WAV, FLAC and ALAC offer performance through the DAC equal to and in some cases better than red book CD.
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Introducing the iD100 iPod, iPhone & iPad Digital Dock
16/02/11 16:51 Filed in: New Products
Bit for Bit pure digital data recovery! The iD100 delivers the most sensational performance and results ever from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod for the most realistic and dynamic delivery imaginable. Taking a digital feed allows extraction of every last drop of performance possible from the worlds favourite portable music player. The pure digital data is then fed to an external DAC or AV Receiver using its digital input for best possible digital to analogue conversion.
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The Wadia 171 iPod/iPhone/iPad Transport is finally available!
17/01/11 16:37 Filed in: New Products
The 171 iTransport is the first certified “Works with iPhone” dock to offer pure, bit-perfect digital output allowing the revered smartphone and iPad to perform as high-end media servers. Wadia’s 171 iTransport builds on the award winning success of the original 170iTransport by adding “Works with iPhone” compatibility, and iPad connectivity. Significant refinements to the original design include high performance power supply components, advanced clocking circuitry, premium grade circuit boards, two digital outputs, and a feature rich remote control. Read More...
The Model M - Now With Sophisticated Controls
29/12/10 15:18 Filed in: New Products
GENEVA Lab's award-winning TouchLight control system, dubbed "brilliant" and "sublime" by the media, is coming to the GENEVA Sound Model M. This touch-capacitive system, first introduced in 2010's new Model S, allows full control of an iPod/iPhone menu system, something unique to GENEVA Sound Systems.
GENEVA's TouchLight system of disappearing controls make hi-fi easier and more attractive. GENEVA is the only hi-fi maker using the kind of innovative touch technology that Apple pioneered with the iPhone.
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Yamaha Natural Sound Stereo Receiver RS700
16/12/10 17:04 Filed in: Product Spotlight
Introducing an elite class stereo receiver for $649 that combines ToP-ART technology and ART Base chassis construction with gold–plated speaker terminals and dual aluminum heat sinks for crisp, clean sound. Advanced features include continuously variable loudness control, CD Direct Amplification, along with Yamaha iPod dock connection, SIRIUS Radio Ready, 40-station AM/FM and zone 2 control for endless music enjoyment options. Read More...
The ultimate mini-system that plays your music your way.
23/09/10 17:30 Filed in: Product Spotlight
Whether you play your music from a music server, PC, MAC, iPhone, iPod, laptop, cell phone, PDA, or stream it from the Internet, Chordette has an affordable system which will allow you to enjoy your music with astonishingly high fidelity.
The new Chordette series from England's Chord Electronics offers you a completely flexible, modular system so you can enjoy your music your way. The system begins with the Chordette Gem, a high quality USB / Bluetooth DAC which lets you easily take music from any digital source directly into your stereo. Read More...
All New Kef Q Series
15/09/10 11:49 Filed in: New Products
The multiple award-winning Q Series has always exemplified KEF’s conviction that new materials and technologies can, when applied with intelligence and imagination, reproduce recordings so perfectly that they sound indistinguishable from the live event. This is more true now than ever before. As the latest expression of this design philosophy, the new range immerses you in three-dimensional imagery of a richness and clarity that until now has been the exclusive preserve of speakers costing many times more. Read More...
The ultimate mini-system that plays your music your way.
06/07/10 16:24 Filed in: New Products
Introducing Chordette
Whether you play your music from a music server, PC, MAC, iPhone, iPod, laptop, cell phone, PDA, or stream it from the Internet, Chordette has an affordable system which will allow you to enjoy your music with astonishingly high fidelity.
The new Chordette series from England’s Chord Electronics offers you a completely flexible modular system so you can enjoy your music your way. The system begins with the Chordette Gem, a high quality USB / Bluetooth DAC allowing you to easily take music from your digital sources directly into your stereo. If you don't have a stereo, Chordette offers a broad range of components and you can select just the ones you need. Finally, a flexible modular stand is available so you can display this stunning system at it's best.
Though the size of each component is small nothing has been compromised. The audio response is still state of the art with exceptional performance and low noise levels. Encased in Chord's trademark solid aluminum billet metalwork chassis, the Chordette looks as terrific as it sounds and shows off its industry leading engineering both inside and out. Read More...
For some audiophiles, sound quality takes a back seat in an iPod era
10/05/10 11:42 Filed in: Trends
From The New York Times
Thanks to the iPod and all of its progeny -- as well as other non-Apple mobile music players -- it's now possible to put your entire music collection in your pocket and go anywhere. But for some audiophiles, all that mobility and its attendant digital-compression technology have led to a loss in pristine sound quality. Read More: New York Times
