If you attended CES 2012, you very well may have happened upon this delightful device being carried around by members of the House of Marley: the Bag of Rhythm. This harvest-colored beast is essentially a boom box that works natively with your iPod Touch and iPhone, has an Aux input to connect to essentially any other small media device, and strings over your shoulder to blast beats right up into the atmosphere. This sack and wood-housed set of speakers has the look and materials of a modern day block rocker - and it's officially on sale today!
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iPad FingerLabs DM1 2.0 update live now
One of most powerful looking beat machines you can get for your iPad or iPad 2 is none other than the FingerLabs DM1 Drum Machine - and today it's updated to its full level of software power. With the iPad you can do just about anything in the beat creation world, including making a beat fantasy with your fingertips - and the DM1 is about to make that a whole lot simpler for you. Inside there's 64 electronic drum kits. 18 classic vintage drum kits , 20 Acoustic kits, and a total of 26 in-house produced electronic kits, all the sounds you'll need to make the most intense gallery of sound you've ever conjured up.
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thinksound ms01 Monitor Series earbuds Review
When you think of earbuds for listening to music and working with audio, you generally don’t expect the kind of quality that thinksound presents here. What we’ve got here is a wooden pair of earbuds by the name of ms01, an entry into thinksound’s monitor series. These in-ear earbuds each feature an acoustically enhanced 8mm high-definition driver, each with passive noise isolation to back them up – and that wood certainly warms up your world from the outside in.
Jawbone Jambox BIG details leaked
A brand new Jambox may be on the horizon, this time twice the size of its predecessor and just as bright for mobile devices. This device is a massively impressive speaker for smartphones in its first iteration, last seen here on SlashGear in a demonstration of Qualcomm technology at CES 2012, of all places. This new Jambox Big is being detailed as a 10.1 x 3.2 x 3.7-inch monster weighing in at 2.7lbs and another 2 hour boost of battery power over the original beattastic tiny speaker.
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iPod Nano 7G with camera leaked in photos
Not one whole heck of a lot of news is written or read these days about the iPad Nano, one of the last devices to have been designed and released by Apple since their attention switched to purely iPhone and iPad in that sized market. But what we’ve got here appears very much to be an upgrade to the iPod Nano line, and the folks at Apple.pro have a collection of photos which depict it having a 1.3-megapixel camera! This may seem to the average citizen to be a fool’s errand as the current iPod nano has a clip on the back that would block and camera attempts – but lo! There it is!
Urbanears 2012 Spring/Summer explodes with dazzling flat colors
The newest set of everyone's favorite set of one-tone over-ear headphones are headed your way with Urbanears 2012 Spring/Summer collection. This headphone brand is known for its optimization of sound and matching preferences in size, style, design, function, and close relation to the music they're blasting. This newest collection includes Cream, Sage, and Grape colorways to continue to engage your head in the finest of flat color magic.
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Neil Young to continue Steve Jobs music legacy
One of the most famous musicians of all time, Neil Young, spoke this week with Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD about the future of digital music, and how he'd be continuing Steve Jobs legacy in pioneering for it. A device which allows you to download music with the highest possible resolution is what Young aims to create. This device will allow ultra high-fidelity audio downloads, and because of Young's talks with Jobs on the matter before he died, Young wasted no time invoking his name to spread the word about it.
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Blue Spark Digital condenser microphone for iPad revealed and detailed
There's a brand new studio-grade condenser microphone in town for both USB and iPad, and it comes from Blue Microphones. This mic goes by the name Spark Digital and is able to produce darn-near completely excellent sounds with a the same amount of high-quality craftsmanship that went into the company's other excellent comparable mic, the Spark XLR. What this Spark Digital unit does is take the same studio-grade condenser capsule plus hand-tuned components and sets you up for whatever you want to record - be it a podcast, music, location recording and more!
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Google Music manager gets update for downloading all your tunes
If you are using Google Music Manager, you know that it is easy, even if time consuming, to upload all your tracks to the cloud. The thing was that once uploaded if you wanted to download those songs back to another device, like a new computer or mobile, you were only able to do that one track at a time. That was tedious in the extreme.
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V-MODA Limited Edition Crossfade LP2 headphones review
There’s nothing quite a pair of limited edition headphones with interchangeable metal plates on the outsides to get your engine revved up for DJing, gaming, and listening to some death metal on a Sunday afternoon – and V-MODA knows it. What we’ve got here is a the V-MODA Limited Edition Crossfade LP2 model set of over-ear headphones and a full-on review to let you know how seriously excellent they truly are. What you’ve got here is the sound quality of the original Crossfade LP covered with a whole new level of quality in a fine package — the originals have been used by everyone from Deadmau5 and Will.I.Am up to kings like Paul Oakenfold and Tiesto.
Tenqa Remxd Bluetooth Headphones priced and detailed
If you thought you'd have to drop one whole heck of a lot of cash on a pair of headphones that work with Bluetooth, you may very well have been wrong - that's what Tenqa is saying this week with their soon to be available Remxd DJ-oriented Bluetooth-capable units. You'll be able to connect to your smartphone, your computer, or whatever else you've got ready to work with Bluetooth and blast your eardrums out with 33 feet of range and 20 Hz - 20 KHz of power. They're also completely wireless and rechargeable for ultimate freeness in the head!
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Mackie Designs DL1608 iPad-powered mixer revealed
Mackie Designs, a company that has for years been offering some of the highest-end audio mixers in the industry, has introduced a new 16-channel mixer that relies on the power of the iPad. If you believe the literature, it will "redefine" the mixing medium. The company is showing off this powerful audiophile dream at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show in Anaheim, CA.
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