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Posts tagged “sound”

Sonos Releases Lower Priced Home Streaming Unit

Despite being a young company, Sonos has built a following for being a premier solution for wirelessly streaming music from your PC to all of the rooms in your house. But they've always been pricey li...

RUCKSTUHL's Acoustic Panel Divider

Whether it's sharing a home office with a colleague or a significant other, there are times when a little buffer between the two of you is a mighty good idea. We love the idea of RUCKSTUHL's Acoustic ...

Moss: Stylish Modular Speakers

We've moved enough times in our life, to highly value an object's ability to be flexible. What resides in our home office one day, might need to end up in our living room the next. With the Moss s...

Final Frame: Pluto Sound Toy for the iPhone

Pluto Pluto Sound Toy for the iPhone from Pluto Pluto on Vimeo....

Does Wireless Streaming Degrade Sound Quality?
Good Questions

Q - After reading up on this article over at Computer Audiophile, I became a little concerned about the current state of my setup. I currently have my PC holding most of my lossless music files and HD...

Look! Speakers That Can Be Used As Shelves

Speakers tend to stick out in any room, no matter how thin they are. Sure, you can camouflage them a bit, but at the end of the day, they will be quite visible and they might ruin the look of your pla...

Does Tech that Go Bump in the Night Keep You Up?

If you've got gadgets that stay on even while you rest; like the computer, a modem or even the television; you've probably battled the dreaded 'standby' light. It has the ability to fill an otherwise ...

How To: Improve Your Home Theater System Sound

Okay, so you've vested enough dough into your 5.1 home theater sound system to pay off the rest of your car payments, but all of those hard-earned dollars might be going to waste if your system isn't ...

Flickr Find: Single Chairs as Speaker Stands

The simplest ideas are sometimes the most elegant. In this Flickr Find, a single extra bar-height folding chair becomes an artsy, almost bohemian way to stand up your speakers... ...

Waveform Bracelets are Lovingly Engraved with Sound

When the rest of the world wants to buy their significant other jewelry, they engrave a loving message to the underside. Usually something like, "You make my heart sing, Pookie Bear." Barf. When audio...

Look! Shelving Meets Technology

Two of the most prominent pieces in a home theater living room are usually 1) the extra large speakers that accompany the receiver and 2) a stack of unsightly DVD and Bluray discs that the owner has c...

Floating Speakers for the Garden Party You Won't Have

In case you didn't hear, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter for us! And the annual groundhog day news comes just as we were getting excited for the possibility that we could be seein...

SoundClip Pumps Up iPhone Speakers

The iPhone is a marvel of technological innovation. The iPhone takes pretty good pictures for a cell phone camera. The iPhone's touch-screen interface, with it's awesome scroll-y and zoom-y tricks, ma...

Speakers Integrated Into Lightbulbs?

We love getting two-for-one. Whether it's a sale on shoes or a multitasking integrated gadget, it seems better when our money or our stuff can do double-duty. So we took pause at this lightbulb infuse...

Wake Up to Smells That Aren't From Your Roommate

This Peaceful Progression Wake Up Clock uses that gradual lighting technique to wake you slowly and without "WTF is that noise? Is it morning already!?" moments. There's also a scent, which is release...

Sound/Chair: The Only Chair You Can Hear

The perfect addition to any audiophile's home: The chair that IS a sound. Based on a three-axis graph of volume and frequency against time, this armchair was the result of a series of trials—and...

Rubik's Cube-Shaped Subwoofer

With all of the "I Love the 80s" retro loving we've seen recently (Can a reworking of an old trend classify as a "new" trend?), some things hit the mark, like Pac-Man Ghost Lamps, and some are a miss...