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more about #homeaudio more comments → AyeEye: I'm busting up at the line "do-it-home Foley times" In medicine a Foley is a catheter. I am picturing Jason inserting his own 3 feet of latex pleasur... more » GraphicoFantastico: Unless you have a sound booth in your home, you're going to get ambient garbage on anything you attempt to record. The better solution if you need pr... more » David Hildreth: Blue Snowball! more » Marcelo: *pro sound editor checking in* That's not a foley microphone. The best foley microphones are long shotgun tubes like the Sennheiser 416. That's a voc... more » AmphetamineCrown: The Opus No. 4 is still shown on their site as maxing out at 1TB for $1799. The site also doesn't have a press release after 4/2/08, which is odd... ... more » GodfreyOriole: If you have Vista (oh the Horror) or Windows 7 you can use the sound mixer to mute everything but the media player of your choice. more » TheSonOfKrypton: God I hate it when I can't identify things I feel I should be able to....What the hell computer is that? It's not a late 2006 model MBP, because I ha... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Didn't they make this already, only it's called Airport Express and it doesn't require an extra dongle to carry around? If they wanted to make someth... more » EncNone: decent product, but laptops with speakers looks so sad and pathetic. more » 92BuickLeSabre: As noted in an earlier post, I still love my old Sony Quadraphonic system, but it only has the turntable, radio, and audio inputs...no 8 track. And (... more » goochillini: Love this review of the 8-Track GE Receiver. My dad still has his hooked up in his garage, with a working 8-Track player. On the downside he only has ... more » OMG! Ponies!: Sound does not come from literally every direction. As everyone knows, sound only comes from speakers. Marketing brochure FAIL! more » VivianaEmu: Unless I'm mistaken, Quadrophenia was actually never recorded in quadrophonic sound. Hence, why your dad's copy was in stereo. more » BeautifulAgony: "WHERE'S YOUR COPY OF IRON MAN???" "It's right there, third one down from the top, right above Donnie Darko..." "WHAT???" more » A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!: After watching 3 copies of Halloween and 2 copies of Hitman, it must be relaxing to read the History of Barbie more » -
#microphones
Samson Q2U Mic Is a Cheap USB/XLR Solution For Home Foley Action
You can easily make your own 1080p movies with relatively inexpensive gear at home now, but what if you want quality sound effects? Samson's (a name brand for microphones) Q2U might be your ticket for do-it-at-home Foley times. More » -
#homeaudio
Olive Opus N4, Melody N2 Music Players (For Rich People) Become Slightly Better Music Players (For Rich People)
We haven't heard much from Olive since they released the pretty-but-pricey Opus and Melody music wedges last year, but that kind of cautious pace is to be expected in the high-end A/V world. Today, they've given their line a refresh. More » -
#review
Creative SoundBlaster Wireless for iTunes and GigaWorks Wireless Speaker Lightning Review
The Gadgets: Creative's new SoundBlaster Wireless for iTunes dongle, that shares music to little receivers around the house, and also to the GigaWorks T20W wireless-receiver speakers. More » -
#homeaudio
Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
The Gadgets: Panasonic's SL-850 quadraphonic turntable, featuring the unusual 4.0 discrete-channel format for stereo-besting sound. (As the brochure says, "In the real world, sound comes from literally every direction.") Plus, GE's 4-Channel Receiver, with a built-in 8-track cassette player. More » -
#homeaudio
Sony's Super iPod Dock Appears in Leaked Photos Looking Pretty Nice
Sony Insider has happened upon some leaked images of the CMT-Z100iR mini-sound system, which, if real, suggest this respectable-looking system has an iPod dock, CD player and USB port to complement the 20w speakers. More » -
#speakers
Speaker Shelves and Storage Units Provide More Than Just Surround Sound
The concept of integrating speakers into shelving units is nothing new, but this Soundshelf design is easily the most elegant application of the idea to date. More » -
#joy
Meet Ken, The Amazing Dancing Audiophile
There are the snobby, deluded audiophiles who troll internet forums all day arguing about the merits of acoustic cryocoolers and adaptive spectral perceptual entropy coding, and then there's Ken. More » -
#reviews
Lightning Review: ZVOX 550 Speaker System and Flat Panel Stand
The gadget: The ZVOX 550, the only speaker system we've ever seen designed to hold a 50" flat panel TV while packing a 60W amp, 5.25" sub, and five 2" speakers in one frame. -
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#ipanda
iPanda iPod Dock Panders To Bear Loving Music Enthusiasts
What's black and white and acts like a bamboo(m) box? The iPanda, an adorable iPod docking station by animal-themed audio system makers Speakal! The China bear-shaped dock boasts four speakers and a 4” subwoofer for 25 watts of sound and “360° sound distribution.” Pump up the volume by touching the panda's left ear, or lower the sound by touching the right. Don't worry, give it a go—unlike real pandas, this one won't bite you when you try to hug it. More » -
#speakers
EOps i24R3 Wireless Gesture-Control iPhone Speaker is Quite Beautiful, Actually
Just unveiled at Tokyo Designer's Week, EOps i24R3 is probably the best-looking speaker system for the iPod/iPhone I think I've seen. Plus it's jammed-full of wirelessness, so the iPod-dock, woofer-equipped base station is paired with two or more (up to eight) remote stereo speakers. And in the true spirit of iPhoneness it's gesture controlled— touch-free gestures too: you just wiggle your hand in front of the base station and control volume and equalizer functions. More » -
#ifa2008
Philips Cinema One Squeezes Home Theater System into Tiny Round Box
As mentioned in the liveblog, Philips has stumped up a new home theater system that's as small, and almost as round as, a soccer ball—for those of us bored of boring, standard rectangular entertainment gadgets. Though it's tiny, it fits in an iPod dock, a five-channel amp, six speakers and a subwoofer built into the base. It must be pretty cramped inside, since it's just 10.75-inches across, and only 6.75 high. The DVD player can cope with DivX, MPEG-4 and WMV, and upscales to 1080p over HDMI and the CD player can read MP3 discs, and it's got USB-in. If that's whetted your appetite, you'll have to wait as there's no info yet on timing or price. But the press release is below. More » -
#homeaudio
Sony S-Airplay is a Wireless, Multi-room iPod Dock
Sony's S-Airplay Wireless iPod Dock is basically a cheaper, less functional version of the Sonos home audio system. You plug your iPod into the central base station, plug in up to 10 wireless speakers into power outlets through the house and just like that, you have multi-room audio. More » -
#yamahayst001
Yamaha's YST001 Home Theater Speakers Are Home Lighting Units Too
Yamaha has teamed up with lighting experts Koizumi to create these home theater speakers with built-in lighting. Each unit has three 25W halogen lamps that are remote control-dimmable down to 20% brightness, designed to reduce the contrast between your TV picture and the wall behind to "ease the burden on your eyes." So, a kind of one-color, non-reactive ambilight then, but the effect they produce is pretty subtle and saves you from installing moodlighting. More »
