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Posts tagged “speakers & headphones”

Mint's Wireless Speakers Enable A Multi-Room Setup

At Unplggd, we're always trying to go wireless. It's not easy, but more and more systems are appearing on the market to cater to wireless fanatics like us. Let's be honest, unless you're willing to dr...

Audioengine Goes Passive with P4 Speakers

You can say I've been a little spoiled with my Audioengine A2 powered speakers in my home office. But while having peace of mind having to never worry about external amplifiers and wire forests is nic...

Hot or Not?: Sound Egg Chair

We've never met a person that hasn't had some sort of love for the Ovalia Egg Chair (it's a classic!), but it seems nowadays; anyone and everyone is trying to expand upon the original by adding soun...

The i24R3 Portable Speakers

Another home electronics design concept from Hong Kong designer Michael Young, this time a wireless speaker system, the “i24R3 Portable". The circular, lightweight speaker was designed for EOps, m...

Great Little Card Reader Sticks to Metal Surfaces

There is just something about simple and efficient solutions to problems. For example, it's really hard to go without a USB card reader. These small devices are used to read the cards from your camera...

Wall Of Sound

There are plenty of erroneous pieces of technology floating around the world and we believe this may be another one. We completely understand the need for a very loud sound system, but an iPod dock t...

A Music Lover's Impressive Home Theater
Close-Up

Klaas Jan Guchelaar loves music. So much so that he's found a career as a concert photographer in the Netherlands. When he's not snapping priceless moments at Living Colour concerts he's sitting back...

Jamo A804 Speakers with Scary SUB 800
Unplggd Test Lab

When we were kids, we had a pair of Jamo speakers that were probably the worst we have ever owned. Maybe just a notch above some speakers that came shrink-wrapped to a magazine bought in Spain a fe...

GP400n iPod Speaker

Ever been somewhere and need to listen to your iPod Nano and don't have headphones? Well then you better listen up, because this pertains to you!...

Inspiration: Deltalab Recording Sutdio

DeltaLab Recording Studios, "the world's first designer recording studio", was founded in 2001 by 19 year old Thomas Troelsen and has recorded the likes of Bryan Adams. In 2007, they upgraded and re...

Technicolor: Brown

Brown has been used in electronics as far back as we can all remember. Our homes all had giant speakers with wood grain veneer wrapped around them. Thank goodness the brown and wood grain electron...

Sonoro Eklipse
Unplggd Test Lab

Product: Eklipse Designer: Sonoro Price: $499.99 Rating: Weak Recommend I live in a 300 square foot studio, yet I have a stereo amp that could fill a large dance club -- 770 watts. Despite all that ...

Speakers Integrated Into Furniture Concepts
designboom

Designers Wout Fierens and Miquell van Meelen of Wondering Boys created the Table of Sound for the recent designboom sound innovation design competition. The design didn't win, but we like the concept...

Yamaha's S-Airplay Rival: The yAired iPod Dock

Similar to their S-Air, announced last year, Yamaha's PX-60 Wireless iPod/iPhone allows users to dock their media player into a wireless cradle that magically streams tunes over to its dedicated speak...

Take Rock Band to the Next Level With Stage-Gig Amp

Every Tuesday night, the living room becomes a rock venue. Tons of people are getting together to hang out and play games with everyone-can-play titles like Rock Band—and this Amp from speaker g...

Re(al)view: Rockin' RP-HTX7 Headphones from Panasonic

Oh headphones, how we love thee! To listen to music in one's own little world on one's own little terms is pure auditory bliss... if done correctly. We here at Unplggd Audio Labs are on a constant...

Mikal Hameed's Chair Sound Systems

Here's a follow up to our recent Five Chairs that Seat and Play a Beat roundup: designer Mikal Hameed's De La Knoll was included in our roundup, but we realized the furniture remixer has some additi...

Elecom Lego Brick Earbuds EHP-CIN40

Depending upon the level of your affinity for Legos these earbuds from Elecom are either really cool or just plain weird. Though, when we imagine someone building upon the earbud design with additio...

Yamaha's Wireless iPod and iPhone Cradle

At Unplggd, we really like wireless stuff. Getting rid of the messy wires is part of our mission. That's why we were interested to find out that Yamaha's latest cradle is wireless. Sounds pretty cool,...

Re(al)view: On Ear with NuForce UF-30 Headphones

Earbuds are often painful in both the way they deliver sound and the way they fit your ears. Most of us just deal because they are small and they come with the player. If they get lost or broken, ...

Michael Young: Moshimy

It seems that no matter how much we love our current iPhone dock, we're always intrigued by new ones. Especially when the dock is designed by one of your favorite designers (that usually helps!)...

Splitterbot: The Adorable Way to Share Tunes

You've always got your iPod with you to keep from being bored for a trip to the gym or a ride on the subway. But when you're running/riding with a friend and you want to share the music love, be read...

Product Re(a)lview: Vers Audio 2X

If not for the $4 licensing fee that all 3rd party manufacturers must pay to Apple to use their connectors, iPod docks would actually be a dime a dozen. There are so many to choose from at such l...

Space Saving LG HLB54S Blu-ray Soundbar

If space is an issue and you're not super discriminating about your surround sound, a sound imaging, faux surround sound bar can be a good option. We have a Yamaha brand sound bar, and the reflected s...

Neil Poulton Designed LaCie Sound2 Speakers

We've always been oh-so-tempted to order a pair of Neil Poulton's LaCie speakers due to their modernist aesthetic, but reports of some audio hiss always gave us second thoughts. Well, we now have a ...