Now, things are somehow clear when it comes to serious audio: you're either into it or not, the middle road is very thin and few manage to walk on it. "In" and "out" do not relate to the money you spend with audio gear but are more closely bound to how you spend it and on what kind of gear.Some people prefer few... |
20 March 2007
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Electrostatic speakers have been around for more than 50 years now and few of you knew that (count me in). The principle is fairly simple: a membrane vibrating between two electrostatically charged plates and thus producing sound. Everything is quite cool so far, especially the fact that this kind of speakers is real... |
16 March 2007
10:37 GMT |
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No further than yesterday I was writing about Hovland and their Stratos amplifier selling for the staggering sum of 50,000 USD. As I did yesterday, I still (at least) smile when I remember this thing. But if you think this is all Hovland can sell for absurd amounts of money you're oh so wrong.Truth is that prete... |
15 March 2007
06:03 GMT |
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This one goes to all guitar-lovers around the world: Shark Inlays are launching new custom shop-type truss rod covers and man, do they look awesome! For good years now, Shark have been providing to-shelf guitars with the most beautiful tune-ups for the most coveted guitars from PRS (Paul Reed Smith), Taylor or Ovatio... |
14 March 2007
12:14 GMT |
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Cheap gear, fairly-priced gear, affordable gear, expensive gear and high-end-top-shelf-state-of-the-art gear. And above all you can think of, there's Hovland amplifiers. Now, how much do you think you'd spend on a 400W @8 ohm amp to please your audiophile ears? Would you save as much as $10K? How about thin... |
14 March 2007
11:34 GMT |
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Thiel Audio hasn't wasted any time and hasn't slacked in the race for affordable hi-end audio gear. Even if some time has passed since we last heard of Thiel doing something great apart form the recent Innovations Award, they've been quite busy.Building on the proven nobility of the SCS3 heritage and e... |
14 March 2007
10:26 GMT |
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Now, „hi-end" can be achieved by following many roads and, obviously, having different types of hi-end customers in mind. One can simply make a diamond-studded headphone set and call it „hi-end" because it simply costs $799,000 and some Paris-Hilton-kind-of-person might buy it. Now there is the other end of the high-... |
12 March 2007
06:05 GMT |
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Last time we spoke about Bose, they weren't in a very convenient situation as their newly-released headphones were releasing themselves from the ears of their owners dues to the earbuds not fitting that snug inside the people's ears.Back then, Bose announced that after making brief investigations upon this ... |
9 March 2007
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By far one of the highest high-end audio gear manufacturer, Bang & Olufsen has been constantly strengthening their position by entering the automotive industry: no, they're not building cars - they're equipping it with hyper-tech audio hardware.Having already redefined the meanings of top-end and extreme qu... |
7 March 2007
03:05 GMT |
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Among so many producers going wireless it was time for Sony to cut off the wires from some top-shelf equipment as well. Not that this could bring Sony in row with the absolute leaders in this field (Etymotic, Bose, Sennheiser, just to name few of them) but it was an altogether nice move.Things are even more interesti... |
6 March 2007
10:13 GMT |
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