By Mark Knowles on Saturday, December 29, 2007Filed Under: Gadgets
French company, Waterfall Audio has just announced two examples of its spectacular glass loudspeaker enclosures – and they are coming to the U.S. The speakers are named after two famous waterfalls in Africa and South America, the Victoria EVO and Iguasçu EVO. They consist of slender, hand-crafted glass towers designed to convey the impression of […]
By Mark Knowles on Tuesday, December 25, 2007Filed Under: Gadgets
According to several source, most people don’t buy a home theater speaker system because of the difficulty of running wires around the room. What exactly is so difficult about this is beyond me and if you are incapable of doing this simple task I suggest calling an electrician next time you buy any electrical […]
By Mark Knowles on Thursday, December 20, 2007Filed Under: Gadgets
Klipsch describe their iGroove SXT iPod Speaker system as their, ”most compact and affordable iPod speaker,” ever. Not far wrong – it’s small and cheap.
Around $150 for what could almost be considered HiFi is quite a deal. Full specifications include:
Frequency response 60 Hz - 20 kHz
Crossover frequency 6 kHz
Maximum […]
By Mark Knowles on Sunday, November 18, 2007Filed Under: Apple, Gadgets
That’s the tagline for Cerulean’s F1 Wireless Stereo Bluetooth headset, and they’re right. After a disastrous installation of Apple’s Leopard 10.5 OS I decided I needed a new toy. My local toystore had just taken delivery of a couple of pairs of F1s so I thought, why not?
The CERULEAN F1 combines a mono mobile headset […]
By Mark Knowles on Saturday, October 13, 2007Filed Under: Gadgets
Alpine electronics, the in-car audio manufacturer won two awards at the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) this year. The iDA-X001 and CDA-9887R both received EISA Awards this August.
The prestigious EISA Awards are given to the best electronic audio/video/image devices sold during the year in a variety of categories—selected and judged by EISA, which is […]