Apartment Therapy: turntables, cd & digital music players

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
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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...

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...

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...

Novation LaunchPad Music Control Surface

It was literally last week this time we were IM'ing and emailing everyone we knew about an online digital music making addiction called, ToneMatrix, a simple sinewave synthesizer controlled by an ordi...

Musical Chairs: Five Chairs that Seat and Play a Beat

It's surprising that with the popularity of the iPod, iPhone and other digital music devices, there aren't many chairs that can accommodate to dock, power and control players. But here are five chai...

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...

Party Pod

There are plenty of at home karaoke products, but this one is by far one of our favorites. It's sleek, simple and definitely gets the job done. Plus, it's the collaborative effort of some really g...

Digitize Your Vinyl Collection with the Thanko USB Turntable

Besides a couple of stragglers, the majority of our CD collection has been ripped into various digital file formats and donated/given away to friends in our stride to live with less clutter. But we'r...

Yamaha MCR-140 and MCR-040 iPod Docks

To be honest, we've never been big proponents of iPod docks (well, except for those minimalist Geneva Sound units) because most of them have an awkward look to them with an iPod parked ontop. At least...

iPod Nano Upgraded With Video, Radio, Pedometer and Mic

The star of the show today wasn't the iPod Touch as many expected (or AppleTV as we personally hoped), but the Marsha Brady of the Apple iPod family, the iPod Nano. The svelte player saw a huge upgrad...

Logitech Squeezebox Makes Internet Radio Stylish and Portable

We're huge fans of Pandora, and any way to get Pandora off our tiny computer speakers and blasting through something more substantial is a good thing. Logitech, yup the company known for their keyboa...

Ion USB Cassette Deck Helps Save Your Mixtapes

There are plenty of turntables available with USB connections to help convert your analog media into digital formats. But what if you've got audio cassettes mixtapes you'd like to transfer over for po...

Interview with David Laituri of Vers Audio

An out-of the-gate success, Vers Audio has come onto the market at a time when docks are a dime a dozen, and sound quality is subverted by cheap manufacturing processes. A company that takes true sus...

TASCAM CD Player Features Retractable iPod Dock

TASCAM might not be a big name for everyday home tech like Sony and Panasonic, but TASCAM is big for audio recording and music production. It's cool, then, to see that the entire music industry—...

Rodriguez DJ Tables: Most Stylish DJ Turntable Booths

In general, DJ turntable booths or setups tend to be pragmatic affairs where form is very secondary to function (and rightfully so, considering how much hardware and wiring is involved in getting eve...

Re(al)view: Firestone Big Joe 3 Digital Power Amplifier

Firestone has been kind enough to send us a few of their products recently and today we take an in-depth look at a new digital amplifier. The Big Joe 3, as its numerimacality suggests, is the third g...

DIY: iPod Dock From Reused Parts and Leftover Chicken 2

Hi. Last time I went over some of the reasons for creating this dock and went through some of the initial cutting and rough stuff. I cut some mahogany, routed out some speaker depressions, and fram...

The Wall Mounted Touchscreen "Fruity Speaker"

Here's a space saving home audio solution concept which might appeal to those of us who only have wall space in an apartment or dorm. The Fruity Speaker consists of six variable sized speakers and wit...

Roundup: 8 Wooden iPod Speaker Docks

Ok, so iPod speakers are showing up everywhere -- Swedish living rooms, nurseries, Legos, lamps. For those of you who like to bring nature back into your home, rather than crowding it with a bunch of...

Flickr Finds: iPod as Nursery Aide

While checking out Steve's great office space, which we hope to post about soon, we saw this great photo of his new son's nursery. The first thing that caught our eye was the iPod and speakers on the...

Crazy Sale on Industrial-Chic Sonic Integrity Speaker Dock

Great tech don't come cheap. For something with great sound that is as awesomely cool-looking as this Sonic Integrity MP5-DS iPod docking station sound system, you can expect to shell out top dollar. ...

Great iPod Case: Replace Plastic with Wood

With the new iPhone that was just released last Friday, we thought that it would be great to check out what else can be done with all of those older model iPods. Don't get us wrong, we love the things...

Look! Mini Audio Museum
All that's missing is an 8-track and tape player!

We love it when people put new tech next to old tech. Suddenly you have a mini timeline of gadgetry. Take the photo above, for example, of Cristina's bedroom. She's set her iHome Audio iPod dock next...

Concept: Portable Record Player

A few days ago Gregory reposted a few words from Sarah Rae at Ohdeedoh on the tried and true record player. She mentioned that her old school player gets as much action as the MP3s on her hard drive....

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