Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
The Sub $1000 Spotlight: required reading for those in the iPod generation who want to take their audio-geekness to the next step. Three carefully selected speaker/amp combos and a few notes that will help you choose wisely and avoid spending much. (If you’re going to read only one audio-related article this week, this should be [...]
We’ve got a thing for modestly-priced Hi-Fi gear, so we were in for a treat when we took notice of Outlaw Audio’s RR2150 stereo receiver over at SonicFlare. This is a two-channel 100W receiver that sounds good, looks good and has a multitude of features: USB and phono inputs, an FM/AM tuner and a subwoofer [...]
Music swapping through the mail: La la Media plans to set up a platform where users pay $1.49 to swap compact discs with each other (a buck goes to La la Media and the rest covers shipping). Expect to hear from RIAA’s lawyers soon. Michael Arrington has a bit more. [via]
Rundfunker, the WLAN radio: scans [...]
Guide to iPod accessories: iLounge has written some introductory texts for the various categories of iPod-related accessories. The most noteworthy are:
microphones and microphone adapters
remote controls
speakers
Sonic Impact comes with the $139 Super T-AMP [via], an upgrade to the popular and great T-AMP ($39) with “quality binding posts, RCA jacks and the ability to draw power from either the wall or your car” among other improvements.
We had presented the T-AMP back in October, and posted a comparison versus other Class-T amplifiers [...]
Review: Metronome Technologie Kalista: if you were looking for a device that makes CDs sound as good as vinyl, this is yours for the humble price of $23,000.
From the “it’s coming sooner or later” department: Why computer audio probably sounds better than CDs: no jitter, to start with.
Current-production portable CD players with line-out?
First looks and reviews: hard drive servers: Cambridge Audio Azur 640H ($1400), McIntosh MS300 ($5100), Olive Symphony ($1000).
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What is Olive Symphony? A “hi-fi convergence device” you can pair with a computer/iPod/stereo. It can be operated from a computer and act as a wireless router. Interesting facts: it can load tracks to the iPod and it comes with a handy playlisting feature meant to ease the process of tagging your classical music.