The audio world is booming, and more and more people are starting to spend big money on high-end headphones and earbuds to get more enjoyment out of their music. Many of those high-end headphones are now also becoming a status symbol and makers are taking style into account as much as performance. The most successful brand in the high-end headphone industry has been Beats Electronics.
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Altec Lansing 5000 series all-in-one speakers
Altec Lansing has delivered finely tuned speakers for years, and they continue to improve at this year's CES with their 5000 series. They have two noticeably new all-in-one speaker systems available, and with identical form factors. However, they differ primarily in functionality rather than hardware. The first demonstrated was the InAir 5000 Wireless AirPlay speaker.
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iConnectMUSE digital audio mixer brings the studio to your iPhone, iPad
iConnectivity has unveiled an ultra-portable digital audio mixer designed to work with your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The mixer is called the iConnectMUSE and promises to bring studio quality mixing capabilities to your iOS device. It allows you to capture multiple channels of sound and output them to your iOS or computer software for mixing.
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Philips Fidelio SoundSphere wooden limited edition revealed
Philips have expanded their line of SoundSphere AirPlay-capable devices with the SoundScphere DS9860W, this adding to their already powerful SoundSphere 9800W and SoundSphereMini set of similar speakers. Each of these speakers has the ability to wirelessly stream music directly from your iDevices such as iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad as well has through their AUX-in which essentially allows any device to blast audio through these lovely chassis. This newest model brings a new price point, premium finishing, and a limited edition cool factor - the outsides are made of seventy-pieces of natural wood.
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SOUL intros Party In A Box AirPlay and Bluetooth wireless speaker system
SOUL Electronics is introducing its new lineup of Ludacris audio products at CES 2012, which includes a wireless speaker system called Party In A Box that sports three different wireless technologies. You can also dock your iPad, iPod, or iPhone to the system. The company also introduced several new colors for its SOUL by Ludacris premium headphones.
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Griffin Twenty Audio Amplifier for Airport Express hands-on
There's a brand new piece of white technology out there this week, it having a lovely silver dial and the very obvious intent shown right on the surface: this device is made to provide you with untethered digital playback from iTunes with little to no effort at all! This piece of technology works with a Class D stereo amplifier complete with TI PurePath and you've got both S/PDIF optical and an included TOSLINK connector to get you hooked up.
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Sennheiser HD 700 hands-on
Sennheiser today at CES 2012 have just announced the their new HD 700 cans. Senn promises that these new phones will make sure to please your ears (but not your wallet). Coming in at around $999 they aren't for the feint of heart. For those true audiophiles and lovers -- these will surely impress.
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Insider Talk: Eton Rukus Solar Boombox
Here at CES we are on the stage at ShowStoppers and have just brought up Sriram Peruvemba, CMO of Eink. The makers behind the Eink technology in almost all ereaders available today like the Kindle's and NOOK. Today they have on display the new Eton Rukus Solar powered boombox. More details and hands-on video after the break.
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B&O unveils the Beolit 12 AirPlay portable audio system
Bang & Olufsen has launched a portable audio system called the Beolit 12 that supports Apple's AirPlay technology for wireless streaming. Unlike the company's other luxury audio solutions, the Beolit 12 is launched through the company's new brand, B&O PLAY, which puts cutting-edge sound quality into more playful and portable products.
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Sony Walkman Z Series gets official
Last month we saw the Sony Walkman Z1000 Android-powered medial player cross the FCC. Sony has gone official with the new line of players at CES. The Z1000 has several model numbers in it that are differentiated by their storage capacity. The Z1040 is 8GB, the Z1050 is 16GB, and the Z1060 is a 32GB player.
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Harman JBL OnBeat Air hands-on
This year at Pepcom's showing for CES 2012, Harman brought some lovely sounds to the show, not least of all with the JBL OnBeat Air dock for iOS devices. This dock is more than just your everyday iPad dock, but not quite as imposing as the slightly larger OnBeat Xtreme. At half the price you get essentially half the device, here the OnBeat Air providing amplifier power of 7.5 watts per JBL Phoenix transducer and a total weight of 1.9 pounds.
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Harman JBL OnBeat Xtreme hands-on
The folks at Harman have come correct with a brand new iPad dock/amplifier by the name of OnBeat Xtreme, this device able to not only hold your device and play media through your basic Apple port, but through Bluetooth as well. This device will turn your iPad into a massive media machine, it sitting below your device as it holds it vertical or horizontal and blasts the beats forward through a rather stylish X of speaker fronts. Look like the rock and roll machine for you?
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