Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
We’ve presented the iGrados back in July. Grado’s low-budget, open-design, street-style cans, targeted to the iPod crowd house the same drivers as the company’s favorite SR-60s but cost $20 less ($49).
It’s been a few weeks since they were released—after reading more than half a dozen threads on Head-Fi from people who bought them (1, 2, [...]
Question over at the Head-Fi forums: what is the ‘Beyerdynamic sound’?
lini and Wmcmanus nailed it—there isn’t one (as is the case for, say, Grado). The sonic signatures of BeyerDynamic cans are all over the board, which is a good thing.
On Wednesday, the super-popular music store AllofMP3 announced the launch of its “Music for Masses” program. According to it, AllofMP3 users who download the “Music of Masses” program can pick all the songs they wish from the huge AllofMP3 catalog, and listen to them for free. Some restrctions apply:
they can only listen to them through [...]
Amie Street provides a new model for selling DRM-free music: among several novel ideas, the most innovative one has all songs starting from the very tempting price of 0c (as in: FREE) and going upwards according to their popularity (max. price that can be reached is $0.98).
From the TechCrunch writeup: “Songs uploaded by artists fluctuate [...]
Jon Lech Johansen (aka DVD Jon), the wiz kid who broke the DVD content-scrambling system at age 15, is now working on licensing FairPlay [via] to companies who want their content to play on Apple’s devices. FairPlay is Apple’s version of DRM—which Johansen has reverse-engineered.
RealNetworks first did this with Harmony back in 2004, applying FairPlay [...]