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The market for headsets and headphones is among the most successful right now, in terms of sales volumes, and Turtle Beach appears to have benefited greatly from this.
Turtle Beach specializes in audio products for the gaming industry, meaning that it deals in high-end headphones and headsets, some of which come in... |
10 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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The latest (and quite possibly the coolest) Kickstarter project, the Devium Dash promises to turn your iPhone into your very own car stereo. You just slide in your phone and tap away.
Dash is a patent pending technology. Its inventors describe it as “the convergence of the car stereo and your smartphone.&rdquo... |
7 February 2012
10:56 GMT |
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Monster, being a supplier of high-end but also expensive audio products, has launched a pair of earphones that will not go easy on your wallet at all.
Called Gratitude, they are in-ear models with a golden color theme and which are bundled with 12 different eartips of different type and size.
Monster also implement... |
6 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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foobar2000 1.1.11 did not spend too much time in beta stage of development. After five betas, the stable version is released sporting a few fixes and, as expected, no new features.The new build of the popular audio player has done away with several bugs. But the most important modification touches on the deadlock det... |
6 February 2012
11:29 GMT |
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If you have some cash to spare and don't care what other headphones might show up over the next couple of months, Mad Cats is taking pre-orders for the Cyborg F.R.E.Q. 5 Gaming Headset.
Armed with a pair of large earcups and 50 mm drivers, this headset intends to cover all of your gaming and multimedia sound pr... |
31 January 2012
10:04 GMT |
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It looks like Koss Corporation may be trying to make history again, or at least remind people of the good old days when it was at the top of its game.
For those who don't know about Koss, the company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it was the first to release a SP/3 Stereophone, way back in 1958.
Its most impo... |
30 January 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Ultrasone is certain that there are at least a few people in the world who want German, handcrafted headphones, so it made the Signature Pro set.
The Signature Pro headpones that Ultrasone has just introduced are described in precisely the sort of way one would expect from a high-end product.
High sound quality, c... |
27 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Headphones come in many shapes, sizes and audio capabilities, but few of them can truly claim to be suitable for children, so Kidz Gear decided it may as well make its mark in this area. The product that Kidz Gear put together is quite specific in its targeted customer base, both due to product compatibility and fe... |
27 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Laptop owners usually have to get a pair of headphones if they actually want to enjoy good sound, assuming they don't just settle for the built-in speaker.
For those who own notebooks, especially large ones like those with 17.3-inch screens, JLab invented the B-Flex X-Bass USB speaker.
Since the screen is more... |
25 January 2012
10:59 GMT |
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Sony Japan is getting ready to start selling a new batch of so-called Walkmans, the NW-E060 series to be precise.
As reported here, they will have capacities of 4GB and 2GB and, 1.4-inch screens, FM radio and various audio features, like five-band equalizer, Clear Stereo, Clear Bass and Digital Sound Enhancement Eng... |
25 January 2012
09:02 GMT |
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You probably won't even guess what the Ball Beats does just by hearing its name.Fortunately, there is media coverage and even a video of the thing in action, so the mystery needn't plague anyone.Basically, Ball Beats (supposedly on sale and priced at $199 / 155 Euro) is a physical step sequencer spread over... |
23 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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SoundCloud is celebrating a major milestone for the company, it now has 10 million registered users. The number of registered users is not the greatest way to measure success, but it's an important metric and most companies have grown accustomed to highlighting it rather than the more relevant active users metri... |
23 January 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Beta 3 and 4 for foobar2000 1.1.11 have been released a very short time apart. Repairs in these builds are based on telemetry data gathered from the second beta of the application, thanks to the freshly introduced deadlock detection feature.
In foobar2000 beta 3 the developer focused on fixing up user interface resp... |
23 January 2012
05:04 GMT |
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The second beta build for foobar2000 has been released and, apart from fixing various issues from the previous edition, it also introduces new stuff: deadlock detection feature. At the moment, it is in experimental stage of development. The purpose of this feature is to improve bug-collecting process from testing us... |
19 January 2012
11:41 GMT |
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With so many devices to play with nowadays, the number of file formats has increased as well. To make the most of our technologically-advanced devices, we obviously need to supply them with media files. Unfortunately, they can't be played across all devices or applications, but that's not really set in... |
19 January 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Beats and Monster may have announced the end of their partnership, but that does not mean that the products they have already launched can't be built upon. It has just been reported that Monster is getting ready to launch six new color options for the Beats by Dr. Dre Studio High-Definition Headphones. Since... |
17 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Craftsman used CES 2012 as an opportunity to release a fairly unusual product that may just bring wireless audio to car service stations and anyone's garage.
Right to the point, the company created a toolbox (more like a tool storage system) that has a built-in Bluetooth stereo system.
The unit, made of two ch... |
17 January 2012
11:02 GMT |
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The progress on foobar2000 continues, with the developer releasing the first beta for version 1.1.11. The modifications brought to the player are pretty important, as they refer to potential security issues and also improve the overall functionality. One of the most notable enhancements available in foobar2000 1.1.1... |
16 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Looks like even the closest partnerships can be broken up, as proven by Beats Electronics and Monster, whose collaboration will not be renewed. Beats Electronics and Monster have just finished a five-year-long collaboration, during which they jointly released audio products for the consumer market, and not only. A... |
13 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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The new release for Tagscanner (multifunction application for organizing and managing your music collection) sports a set of changes designed to improve overall functionality of the program.
Tagscanner 5.1 Build 607 integrates updated Discogs and TrackType service support. Improvements available in the new version r... |
12 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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SteelSeries is definitely one of the more active companies at CES this year, having brought along a sizable product portfolio for visitors to gush over.
One of the items found at its booth is the Siberia v2 Frost Blue headset, a product that puts quite a bit of stock on appearances.
In fact, it puts so much stock ... |
11 January 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Not about to be overshadowed by anyone at the upcoming trade show, Turtle Beach has prepared a number of audio products for nearly, if not all sorts of customers.
Like most every other company that will be present at CES, Turtle Beach is unveiling its devices early.
That way, the people who will visit the trade s... |
6 January 2012
11:11 GMT |
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In addition to the sound bar and the two multimedia players that Samsung has on track for this year's CES, the company has also created a pair of audio docks.
Audio docking stations are the sort of auxiliary devices that give voice to those consumer electronics devices that don't have one of their own.
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4 January 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Samsung has begun officially announcing the devices it will have on display during the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show.
Even though CES hasn't started and won't start for another week, companies are eagerly setting the stage.
Among other things, this means that Samsung saw no reason to refr... |
4 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Each celebrity has its fanbase but Ed Hardy, who specializes in tattoos, decided that the fans of its work with some special earpieces, so it came up with the Ed Hardy headphones.There are two types of Ed Hardy headphones: in-ear and over-ear.The former get a so-called Tiger theme, as well as a microphone for hands-f... |
30 December 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Sirius XM has just announced the introduction of a new satellite and Internet device dubbed the Lynx Portable Radio which is based on the Android operating system and is touted as the company’s most advanced radio built to date. Going for Google’s mobile OS has enabled Sirius XM to include a series of new... |
30 December 2011
05:35 GMT |
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ASUS decided this was a good time for a new audio product, so it developed a new speaker.
This isn't just any speaker, though, but one that adds the advantages of USB connectivity (USB 2.0 or 3.0).
There is no need for any software installation, provided users have the Windows 7 or Windows Vista operating syst... |
29 December 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Wicked Audio has just announced that during the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Fair the company will introduce a new headphone model called the Solus that was developed in order to deliver impressive audio quality.The release of the Solus will mark an important moment for Wicked Audio as these will be the f... |
29 December 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Razer would have probably scored a few points with customers if it had managed to start shipping a certain pair of headsets, but it looks like hopefuls will have to live with disappointment.
Since this is the time of the year when people put presents underneath trees, headsets like the Tiamat 7.1 and Tiamat 2.2 cou... |
20 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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There are a whole bunch of wireless speakers, headphones and consumer electronics already out and about, but no association to make sure every one of them gets along, so WiSA was founded at last.
Put simply, the WiSA Association, short for Wireless Speaker and Audio Association, will do its best to ensure interoper... |
14 December 2011
10:06 GMT |
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Audacity made the move to 1.3.14 RC1 from 1.3.13 beta. The differences between the two versions do not consist in new features, but amount of bug fixing. The latest release is a much more stable edition as it takes care of plenty of issues affecting both functionality and overall stability of the program.
Importing ... |
8 December 2011
09:22 GMT |
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Olive Media has decided to switch over to OCZ’s Deneva 2 SSDs in their O4HD and O6HD music servers in an attempt to improve the overall consumer experience of their media players while also decreasing power consumption. The O4HD and O6HD HD audio servers will be available with either 240GB or 480GB of storage p... |
6 December 2011
04:04 GMT |
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You might think that speakers, big or small, are the only thing that can play your favorite tracks, but Vibroy begs to differ.
The company created the Vibroy Portable Vibration Speaker, which only needs to be stuck to a surface to produce sound.
What it does is project the sound vibrations through other solid matte... |
5 December 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Creative isn't about to let much time pass without some new product announcement, so it launched the HN-900 headphones, which can work with iPhones.
One would think that a big and solid headset would be meant to serve users when they are in front of a computer, but this is not the case with the HN-900 noise-ca... |
30 November 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Owners of game consoles, particularly the Xbox 360, now have a slightly wider range of audio products to choose from, as Sennheiser has contributed the X 320 and X2.
X2 is a single-sided headset designed to be durable and cost-accessible, while the X 320 is the high-end one, with a noise-canceling microphone, among... |
29 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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We spotted the Logitech Mini Boombox back at the onset of this month (November, 2011) but we weren't exactly sure of when sales might start.
The announcement had given this month, November, as the time of arrival, but that could mean anything from immediately to late in the month.
The latter turned out t... |
26 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Melbourne now hosts the fairly peculiar sight on something literally out of science fiction movies or, more to the point, something that produces the sounds from old sci-fi films. One would probably not expect to be walking along a bridge, by an inanimate, pyramid-shaped object, and get startled by sudden noises, b... |
25 November 2011
02:43 GMT |
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It was high time someone started making some docking stations for Android devices and, sure enough, Philips decided to be the first to manufacture something of the sort.
Apparently, the company built three Android tablet and smartphone-compatible speaker docks called Fidelio AS851, Fidelio AS351 and Fidelio AS111.
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15 November 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Hercules released speakers and headphones before and it is doing so again, this time expanding the existing collection of DJ products. The company built three headphone sets, called HDP DJ-Pro M1001, HDP DJ-Adv G501 and HDP DJ M40.1. The first of the trio is the high-end model, intended for professionals, while t... |
10 November 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Gather round and brace yourselves for the arrival of the Sennheiser RS 220 wireless headphones, which shall give wallets and banks no quarter.
The blunt approach may or may not work in this case but, moving right to what hurts, the Sennheiser RS 220 are priced at $599.95 (434.55 Euro).
That's more than some c... |
9 November 2011
05:28 GMT |
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Klipsch Group is about ready to start shipping their latest speaker system, one that should serve personal computers just as well as media players or TVs.
The new speaker system that Klipsch invented goes by the name of Energy Power EM-2.1 and isn't advertised as the most spectacular of audio products, nor is ... |
3 November 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Logitech just announced that it had created an audio device for owners of tablets, smartphones and anything else that can play audio files and can communicate via Bluetooth.
The Logitech Mini Boombox is not just any audio output device.
Though the main principle of audio generation is the same, the role of it is ... |
2 November 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Apple has officially announced that, as of this week, the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is available as an open source project. The Apple Lossless Encoder was introduced in the Mac OS X Core Audio framework in 2004 together with QuickTime 6.5.1. It was made available in iTunes as of version 4.5 and above. The cod... |
28 October 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Nokia may be mostly known for its mobile phones, and all other mobile and mobile-related products, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make other things, like a pair of audio devices. There are two main sorts of headphones, otherwise known as headsets: the type that cover and the type that go inside the ear,... |
26 October 2011
07:53 GMT |
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Realtek is always updating its drivers, since its audio devices are used by a whole lot of motherboards and other things, and the newest one showed up just a short while ago. This once, the company didn't offer any big change log, not in the strictest sense anyway, though it is a given that some fixes and refi... |
22 October 2011
04:38 GMT |
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Another testament to the growing popularity of wireless products, Audyssey's new Lower East Side Audio Dock Air has just been launched, even if it won't make it out until next month.The new speaker from Audyssey is one of those audio products that does its best to combine all the assets of a full audio sys... |
19 October 2011
21:01 GMT |
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Naim has just announced that it will soon add a new all-in-one audio player to its lineup of audio streaming products, dubbed the SuperUniti , which was designed to combine the features found inside the company's UnitiQute, Naim DAC and SuperNait integrated amplifier.The unit is built around a latest-generation ... |
18 October 2011
09:40 GMT |
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In case you all missed them, Motorola released a couple of Bluetooth headsets meant to be used by owners of NFC-enabled smartphones. They are called Elite Silver and Elite Flip, due to their color and shape, and feature the dual-mic technology. They also have a connection range of up to 300 feet (91 meters) and u... |
15 October 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Sennheiser, one of the most respected brands in the audio equipment market, has just issued a warning for its customers that advices them to pay a close attention to the Sennheiser products they buy as counterfeit headphones have started to make their appearance in both Europe and the US. Lately, the audio equipment ... |
13 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Nokia may be best known for its mobile phones, but it makes other things as well, like a certain headset that has a less than ordinary design, to go with its name of Luna Bluetooth. With the full name of Nokia Luna Bluetooth Headset, the new audio device was launched alongside the Nokia 603 with Symbian Belle. Pe... |
13 October 2011
11:31 GMT |
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