HiFi Blog: digital audio goodness

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 [...]

SanDisk: No. 2 seller of MP3 players in the US: they’ve sold 1M during the recent holiday quarter; that’s 13M less than Apple but apparently good enough to get them to the second place. They’re on the right track to keeping that place (no way to dethrone Apple I’m afraid) with their decent, feature-rich/low-cost lineup; [...]

Sony says: we’ll bring the NW-A3000/A1000 over to the States when the software’s done: “It will be ready when we decide that the software is ready—there are no hardware problems.” one executive said. Read our review of the NW-A1000/A3000 here. [via]