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Boostaroo Revolution Hands-on

Mpotiker — Fri, 26 May 2006 03:03:11 EDT

Honestly, just make your own Chu-Moy Altoid Amp. Look it up! its not that hard

Boostaroo Revolution Hands-on

callanish — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:48:22 EDT

First post, so thanks for the invite. Just for clarification for those that might own the PX-200's and thinking of purchasing the Boostaroo Revolution; the PX-200's are actually at 32 ohms, not 60 ohms, and using them with the Revolution is way too powerful and will probably reduce the life of the Sennheiser's. The standard Boostaroo is probably the way to go ( setting aside all the other excellent portable amps as an alternative ) and uses double AA batteries instead of those weird AAAA batteries which I didn't even know existed until I bought the revolution. Bottom line is the product is solid, there is very little hiss and it does make the music sound better. Downside is its just another added thing to carry around making a mockery of the term portable entertainment.

callanish

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dalziel_86 — Thu, 25 May 2006 22:06:03 EDT

That's one chunky-ass iPod. Looks just about as chunky as my 40GB Photo. Is that one 40GB or 60GB?

dalziel_86

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Operator23 — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:55:23 EDT

You would be completely shafted by the AAAA batteries if you bothered to actually purchase them boxed. I, too, though that anything using them was absurd until I found that they're in every store that sells batteries and relatively easy to find. You see, odds are, if you pull back the wrapping on a 9-Volt, you'll find six little AAAAs inside, which is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying them packaged. I have a cheaper Boostaroo, and it does the job. Uses AAs, too, so rechargables are easy. Also has three holes, and not just two, for sharing.

Operator23

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BDerwent — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:34:54 EDT

AAAA Batteries? That's just obscene.

BDerwent

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DeadWriter — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:25:38 EDT

This is a good little product. It's pretty distortion free, so it's both better than a y-splitter or the el-cheapo amplifier. If you do recording with your iBook, PowerBook, MacBook, or MacBook pro, this would allow one to add a headset or a secondary solid-state recorder, or feed out a mixer and still get a "truer" sound. Better than carrying around large headphone monitor amp, which I when work requires.

DeadWriter

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assmaster — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:01:35 EDT

Surely not handling wma is a good thing, no? ^_^

assmaster