Tag Archive for 'music-system'

I confess, I’m preaching the dream but up until a month ago I wasn’t living it. The dream is, of course, distributed audio: I’m a huge fan of keeping all your music digitally on some server in your house, and streaming it wirelessly to whichever room you’re sitting in, but I’ve never had the [...]

I have something to admit to all of you. I’m a Star Wars geek. There, I said it. Now that I’ve gotten that off of my chest I’ve finally found an excuse to walk around all day with a lightsaber attached to my belt all day. I’m talking about a combination lightsaber and mp3 player. [...]

If it’s a toss-up between making music or love instead of war, most people will go for love; however, if pressed I guess they’ll make music.  That’s the target audience for the ravezooka, a mashup of the household bazooka and the deadly electric guitar - an ultrasonic range detector adjusts the frequency range of the [...]

More and more people are recognising that the iPod is not just an iconic, slightly-passé DAP but an ideal way to record your weekend band.  The MusicJam holds an iPod and simultaneously plays music and records through the XLR socket (they even include a microphone), adding digital effects should that be your bag.
 
There’s also free [...]

I was planning on writing the Eos Wireless iPod Speaker System off as another wannabe Sonos clone, until I saw the price.  At $299 for the base station kit, which includes one wireless speaker, and $129 for additional speakers, makes this pretty good value if you’re an iPod owner wanting to stream your music around [...]

For $39.95 these iPod DJ breasts Mixing Decks will add a variety of craptastic “digital mixing effects” to any music you pump through it - obviously they’d prefer you to use your iPod, but since other music sources do exist I guess you can route them through what is, I imagine, a perfectly standard 3.5mm stereo jack [...]

Perhaps the baddest and most expensive audio video preamp-processors on the face of the planet.  The Halcro SSP-100 is a full audio and video processor with a video scaler.  If you are not familiar with Halcro, don’t fret.  Halcro is an Australian company known worldwide for their amplifiers, digital circuitry, and sound innovation.  For starters, [...]

Here’s a dinky little curio bound to appeal to at least some of the distributed audio and Apple fans in the audience.  Keyspan have launched their TuneView system, a dock and remote combo that allows you to control your iPod when it’s connected to a hi-fi or multi-room setup.  Rather than currently available remotes that [...]

So you saw SlashGear’s review of the Sonos music streaming system and want some of that sweet wireless audio distribution for yourself.  Thing is, at nigh-on $1000 for the ZP80 starter bundle, your pockets are just too shallow for you to splash out.  So do you give up, resign yourself to listening to a tinny cassette [...]

Trust Hammacher Schlemmer to take that USB turntable for converting your vinyl to mp3s (which has been doing the rounds recently, despite SlashGear covering it last August) and knock it into a cocked hat.  “You don’t need a PC” they cry, luxury voices dripping with derision, “all you need is our retro-styled LP-to-CD Recorder.”  And [...]