From Ryan Gosling to Kelly Osbourne - find out where your favorite stars spin, what they play ... and if they're any good!
Noel Lee trained as an engineer and aspired to be a rock star but became neither. At one point he played drums with a rock cover band in Waikiki between stints at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a government nuclear research center near San Francisco. But ultimately Lee paired his passion for music with his exacting standards as an engineer to create a high-performance alternative to simple lamp wire - and built Monster Cable, a resounding business success.
Attention audiophiles, old-school vinyl listeners and the very rich: Do we have a piece of stereo equipment for you.
So you're one of the 49 million Americans who own a flat-panel TV. Great! But unless the sound measures up to the visuals, you're only halfway there.
Pat Williams walked through the Vikings parking lot like a car dealer through a showroom full of new Range Rovers. "That one's got 26-inch rims," he said. "That one's got the black wood interior. That one's got the Strut grill. And that one..." He paused, staring at the Range Rover owned by Vikings running back Chester Taylor, who replaced the words "Range Rover" on the front and back of the vehicle with the words "Chester Taylor." Williams shook his head disapprovingly. "I don't know about that one," he said.
The Ultrasone HFI-2200 headphones have a dark brown outer casing, while the earpads are colored with a golden-brown, velvet-covered cushion. At the top of the headband is another cushion that matches the same color combination.
The faceplate layout of the CDX-GT410U is standard Sony fare: a large control dial gives drivers a means of adjusting volume and navigating menus and is surrounded by a cluster of hard buttons that provide one-touch access to most of the system's features.
With earbuds practically taking over the popular private listening landscape, I can't help but wonder how many people consider over-the-ear headphones anymore.
Computer maker Lenovo has announced a whole new brand of consumer-oriented laptops and desktops. Called IdeaPad and IdeaCentre, the lines are intended to complement the company's flagship business-oriented ThinkPad and ThinkCentre lines.
Digital audio is great--especially if you've got a multigigabyte music collection sitting on your computer or you subscribe to an "all you can eat" music service like Rhapsody.
From Ryan Gosling to Kelly Osbourne - find out where your favorite stars spin, what they play ... and if they're any good!
Noel Lee trained as an engineer and aspired to be a rock star but became neither. At one point he played drums with a rock cover band in Waikiki between stints at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a government nuclear research center near San Francisco. But ultimately Lee paired his passion for music with his exacting standards as an engineer to create a high-performance alternative to simple lamp wire - and built Monster Cable, a resounding business success.
Attention audiophiles, old-school vinyl listeners and the very rich: Do we have a piece of stereo equipment for you.
So you're one of the 49 million Americans who own a flat-panel TV. Great! But unless the sound measures up to the visuals, you're only halfway there.
Pat Williams walked through the Vikings parking lot like a car dealer through a showroom full of new Range Rovers. "That one's got 26-inch rims," he said. "That one's got the black wood interior. That one's got the Strut grill. And that one..." He paused, staring at the Range Rover owned by Vikings running back Chester Taylor, who replaced the words "Range Rover" on the front and back of the vehicle with the words "Chester Taylor." Williams shook his head disapprovingly. "I don't know about that one," he said.
The Ultrasone HFI-2200 headphones have a dark brown outer casing, while the earpads are colored with a golden-brown, velvet-covered cushion. At the top of the headband is another cushion that matches the same color combination.
The faceplate layout of the CDX-GT410U is standard Sony fare: a large control dial gives drivers a means of adjusting volume and navigating menus and is surrounded by a cluster of hard buttons that provide one-touch access to most of the system's features.
With earbuds practically taking over the popular private listening landscape, I can't help but wonder how many people consider over-the-ear headphones anymore.
Computer maker Lenovo has announced a whole new brand of consumer-oriented laptops and desktops. Called IdeaPad and IdeaCentre, the lines are intended to complement the company's flagship business-oriented ThinkPad and ThinkCentre lines.
Digital audio is great--especially if you've got a multigigabyte music collection sitting on your computer or you subscribe to an "all you can eat" music service like Rhapsody.
The latest technology is cool, but sometimes it's hip to be square. For every advance in technology, there seems to be a corresponding reach back to an earlier era.
If you're one of those people who don't want to "live with wires and boxes all over my living room," Yamaha's Digital Sound Projector series of single-speaker surround systems may be exactly what you're looking for.
JVC's KD HDR1 is one of the few in-car stereos on the market that comes with a built-in HD (hybrid digital) radio tuner. HD radio works by sending out a traditional analog signal as well as digital signal, which can be used to transmit text data such as song and artist details.
In the 1970s, Cerwin-Vega was a big name in the speaker business, but it fell off the radar a while back.
Sony's 2007 Bravia home theater in a box (HTIB) systems represent something of a departure from the company's popular Dream systems.
You won't find fancy weapons, magical attacks, fantasy environments or any other standard fighting game fare in EA's "Def Jam: Icon."
Talk about smart cars: These new auto electronics, shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, make for one sweet ride.
The Scene spent the day in Marseille with rapper Papet Jali of Massilia Sound System. Do you have a favorite hangout in France's second city? What do you think of Massilia's music? Send us your suggestions and ideas and we'll post your comments here.
The Scene caught up with Massilia Sound System's Papet Jali to talk football, reggae and the spirit of Marseille...
Massilia Sound System, a raggle-taggle group of trobamuffins rooted in the Southern French tradition of song and storytelling, formed in response to trouble-wracked 1980's Marseille.
Beyonce Knowles is a storm system disguised as a singer. On her second solo album, "B'Day," the songs arrive in huge gusts of rhythm and emotion, with Beyonce's voice rippling over clattery beats; you'd have to search far and wide -- perhaps in the halls of the Metropolitan Opera -- to find a vocalist who sings with more sheer force.
One of the most difficult lessons of the Digital Age is that music is no longer confined to a physical medium like audio CDs, cassettes, or vinyl albums. For today's music lover, the computer, or p...
Apple has sold more than 42 million iPod portable digital music players, and more than a billion legally downloaded songs. Legions of music zombies wander the streets with white wires dangling from...
Walk into any stereo store and you'll see row after row of black rectangular slabs, all with glowing blue lights. That's how stereo components have looked for decades, and that's what Richard Schra...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday unveiled the latest line of Macs to get Intel processors, the low-cost mini desktop line, in a clear bid to reach consumers in their living rooms.
Any car loses value over time. How much it loses is, to some extent, up to you.
At the same time Apple is shifting to Intel microprocessors, Intel is planning a new generation of chips and technologies designed to make notebook computers smaller and less power hungry, and home computers that will emphasize music, video, games and photos.
Crimes are committed on a daily basis in the name of music -- from the fans who illegally download the latest Britney Spears tunes to, depending on your taste, the people who wrote the latest Britney Spears tune.
If the typical car show is like a three ring circus, the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association's annual Las Vegas trade show is like the world's biggest side show.
When a new technology becomes a commodity, margins fall and profits drop, driving all but the biggest producers out of business.
In a bid to court more affluent shoppers, discount behemoth Wal-Mart will introduce a high-end home entertainment sound system that was developed in collaboration with Grammy-winning music legend Quincy Jones, according to a published story Thursday.
AS A MUSIC LOVER, I once enjoyed a whole-house stereo system that let me listen to my favorite tunes in the kitchen, the bathroom, or the bedroom, even though the stereo itself was in the living ro...
The Music Aficionado
For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer. That's what DJing is all about.
Bose is known for high-end audio equipment and dedication to research. Founder Amar Bose, who still owns most of the $1.7 billion company, reinvests all its earnings into R&D. That approach has cre...
Late fall is always a deliciously happy time for technology fans, the season just before the holidays when consumer electronics companies come out with their latest gizmos and gadgets. You may thin...
Audiophiles will tell you to replace the headphones (also known as cans) that come with your consumer electronics because the quality is subpar. But with tons of styles and brands out there, and pr...
On a rainy afternoon in April, I dropped into the record store--excuse me, CD store--across the street from my office in Manhattan. I didn't buy anything. I just wanted to remind myself one more ti...
David Wilson is no ordinary entrepreneur. The Ferrari-driving Mormon likes to read about epidemiology in his spare time and keeps a Mexican black king snake in a cage in his office. But his true lo...
Sweet Emotive
Burn, baby-boomer, burn! Boomers may weep with nostalgia when they see Verbatim's Digital Vinyl CD-R discs, which resemble 45-rpm records. (Youngsters may weep at their ungroovy prices, $12.99 for ...
It was the light. I tell people I chose to buy a Volkswagen New Beetle over the Toyota Rav4 because of the better gas mileage, but that's only partly true. What really hooked me was what I saw radi...
Even midlevel computers these days are being pitched as multimedia machines capable of playing audio CDs, MP3 music files, videogames, Internet radio stations, and DVD movies. To keep costs down, h...
Singer Angie Stone has a nice hit in "Wish I Didn't Miss You." The song is danceable, features appropriately vacuous lyrics, and has an infectious groove. But, for Eric Schimmel, "Wish" has a major...
Sound upgrade Even as the war over digital music rages, Americans download. In fact, according to research firm Ipsos-Reid, by February of this year nearly 25% of Americans over the age of 12--abou...
"Copy-written so don't copy me," warns rapper Missy Elliott on her "Get Ur Freak On" single. And now music executives are backing up Missy's words with technology; they are trying to freeze piracy ...
Made of genuine wood-grain plastic that's supposed to resemble rosewood, Harman Kardon's new Champagne Special Edition three-piece computer speaker set is designed for PC-using executives who want ...
Seasoned Internet audiophiles might at first want to make fun of the Bose Wave/PC, the hoary audiomaker's recent move into the digital music market. It's a $449 tabletop radio, with the same high-q...
Since today's DJs can make into the six figures, perhaps ditching Intro to Marketing in order to spin music isn't such a bad career choice. The latest in DJ technology, Pioneer's CDJ-1000 ($1,300) ...
Combat veterans of the two great format wars of the late 20th century, Betamax vs. VHS and Macintosh vs. Windows, may still be suffering from post-traumatic technology stress syndrome. Brace yourse...
Flat Is Phat
SOUND CHOICE Watching a movie on a PC can be unsatisfying: Tiny speakers and a small monitor isn't the way DVDs were meant to be seen. But Dell's done something about it: the THX-Certified Dimensio...
Remember when home entertainment amounted to an evening in front of the RCA, a few hands of gin rummy, and a fistful of Jiffy Pop? Times, taste, and technology have changed a lot over the years. Wi...
For those of us music fans who don't think in zeros and ones, convergence can be confusing. First we learned to encode music from audio CDs onto our computer hard disks as MP3 files and to download...
Turn, turn, turn. In this season's nostalgia hunt, Gen Xers and their youth-obsessed parents are raiding attics, flea markets, and eBay in search of their favorite moldy oldies. "Albums are your ow...
New on DVD
When it comes to computers and peripherals, you continue to get more for your money. More speed, more power, more style, more choice. To help you sort through the at times overwhelming options, we'...
When I was in college, back in the last Ice Age, my parents gave me a wonderful birthday present: a Norelco portable reel-to-reel tape recorder. "Portable" meant an eight-pound box that swallowed e...
The worst thing that ever happened to me while listening to jazz couldn't have happened in a great jazz club. I had gone with my wife and extremely hip kids to hear Illinois Jacquet in the Chestnut...
Once upon a time, personal computers were deaf and nearly dumb. They didn't respond to voices--a good thing, since we were always cursing their limitations. And they could barely muster a feeble be...
From Spirituals to Swing (Vanguard)
Walk down the halls of a college dorm, and you'll hear music at all hours. Enter a room, and you'll probably find that the noise isn't coming from a stereo--but from the occupant's computer. The bi...
There's a home theater coming to a TV set near you. No, it's not the kind that requires a dedicated room with motorized curtains and a high-limit Visa card. It's a gadget that hooks up to your regu...
My family isn't the most wired in the world, but over the years we've amassed an impressive collection of remote controls--for the TV, VCR, stereo receiver, CD player, DVD-ROM player, and cable box...
I'm not ready to throw out my boom box, but I'm getting mighty close. With the launch of RealNetworks' RealJukebox, my PC has moved into the ranks of serious music machines.
You can always tell when a good magician has bamboozled his audience--each spectator turns to his neighbor and says, "How'd he do that?"
Sometime in October, if the last remaining software bugs can be worked out, the first personal computer for use in an automobile will go on sale. Manufactured by Clarion, best known for its high-en...
Does this sound familiar? You saw a movie in a theater and loved it, so now that it's out on video, you've invited friends over to see it in your living room. Everyone gets comfortable, you dim the...
Audiophiles are a fanatical breed, willing to go to the ends of the earth--and to spend tens of thousands of dollars--in the never-ending pursuit of crisper highs and cleaner lows that are inaudibl...
IF YOU'VE HELD OFF BUYING A PORTABLE CD player because its price dwarfed the machine itself, we have music for your ears. For less than $100 you can now pick up a portable that would have cost you ...
After six years of tinkering with her computer, Jenny still isn't happy. She vents her frustration quietly, shuffling through a pile of bills for a string of electronic face-lifts: a color video ca...
IT'S AN ORDINARY Sunday night, and you've rented Jurassic Park again to keep the kids entertained while you pay bills. As the opening credits roll on your large-screen TV, quiet jungle sounds fill ...
BOUNCE BOOTS The first thing you notice when wearing Exerlopers is that you bound along like an astronaut on the moon when you're running in them. But that's not the real point, says the maker, Nor...
What do you do when your main customer disintegrates? At least one military supplier to the former Soviet Union has a possible solution. Okean Tribor, a St. Petersburg manufacturer of acoustic equi...
A SALESMAN emerges from the subterranean storeroom of HMV, a gigantic, fashionably gray-hued new record store on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He's bearing half a dozen tall, slim cardboard packages...
IT SEEMS THAT no sooner do the fertile imaginations of design engineers dream up whiz-bang electronic gadgets than consumers decide they can't live without them. But Pioneer Electronics, the Japane...
HOME THEATER The hit of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (where all the products on this page were featured) was the combination of giant television (screens from 27 inches to 120...
Close your eyes and remember your last picture show: the screen stretches mesmerizingly wide, the sound effects are shiveringly real, and you sit back and sink your toes . . . right into the gummy ...
If flakes of silicon are swirling about your head like snow during the final frenzy of holiday shopping, welcome to the blundering herd. Digital dilemmas! Electronic enigmas! Big-ticket blues! The ...
IN THE LOCAL audio store, customers listening to the 1812 Overture are scratching their heads. How can two little speakers the size of quart milk cartons fill the room with the thunder of cannons a...
Microwave ovens were once viewed as a triumph of convenience over common sense. Would you settle for, say, a gray slab of steaming beef curling up at the edges for the convenience of two minutes of...
Hunkered down for communion with the tube, you tune in NBC's Miami Vice in time to see stubbly star Don Johnson open fire from the careering car at screen right. The shot barks in your right speake...
SPOILED BY the rich sound of Mozart on your compact disk player? Frustrated that you can't use CDs to record live broadcasts of the opera or the kids' rock band? Fear not, music lovers: digital aud...
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