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iPod charger inside a 9V battery: neat hack. [via]

Creative Labs ‘Summer Special’ deals: now’s you chance to get a Zen Micro power adapter for $10 (was: $30) or a battery for $15 (was: $40). [via]

Grado Labs has started shipping the GS1000: The new flagship of their headphone line, introduced at the International Head-Fi Convention in New York, where it gathered some rave reviews. Bass, mids, highs; it seems it does all equally well and the new cushion design is supposed to be very comfortable. Is this ideal pair of [...]

Why Bose sucks: A collection of reviews from around the Web, all in order to enlighten the masses—Bose is synonymous to overpriced, low-performance, lifestyle-is-what-you’re-paying-for gear [via]:

The message I want everyone to take from this lengthy review is that Bose, like Bang & Olufsen and Nakamichi, sell lifestyle and designer products whose prices are very heavily [...]

Why can’t digital music be sold in a mixable format?: “What I want is a file format that carries each track—unmixed. Then I want a ‘mix’ file, say in XML, that contains the artist’s preferred mix of the tracks. But then I want to be able to tweak it and mix my own version.”

Trent Reznor [...]

The first installation of reader-contributed reviews kicks of with a review of the Sony NW-A3000 from HiFi Blog reader Morgan Smario. Please note that we don’t necessarily endorse the comments included herein—these are reviews contributed by our readers, and we’re just here to give them a stand to voice their opinions. Without further ado:

“The NW-A3000 [...]