If you ever wanted to listen to your music wirelessly but didn’t want to hassle with a computer or other piece of high-tech gear, Audio Engine’s AW1 Wireless Audio Adapter is for you.
The AW1 is literally a plug and play solution: connect each USB dongle to a USB port (just to draw power), plug your [...]

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If you’re looking for some gimmicky plastic speakers with an iPod dock and an LCD, skip this one.
If you want some of the finest sound out of your music player for the money, check out the Audio Engine A5N bookshelf speakers.
Born of studio monitor heritage, the A5N’s represent the “premium” edition of the A5, an [...]

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A couple months ago, we brought to your attention that TigerDirect was blowing out Logitech’s two-year-old iPod Audio Station for just $19.97 after $50 rebate (originally $299). If you missed out on that deal, it’s still available, albeit for $29.99 after $50 rebate.
Logitech replaced the excellent-sounding Audio Station with the similarly styled Pure-Fi Elite. Also [...]

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We’re vain. We like JBL’s Spyro Speaker System simply because it looks pretty cool.
We haven’t even listened to it, to be honest, but given JBL’s track record we’d be surprised if the tiny Spyro delivered anything much better than “acceptable” sound for a 2.1 speaker system in its price range.
But you’re not buying the Spyro [...]

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The more ubiquitous iPods and iPhones become, the more ubiquitous iPod docks should become, too, that way you’ll never be too far away from a full charge. And you won’t have to hassle with USB cables to connect your iPod to your computer.
iHome’s new iH70SRC computer speakers have two channels (meaning there’s no subwoofer), feature [...]

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There’s something about buying cool gear from yester-year at less than half price that we like (or, in the case of the recent Logitech iPod Audio Station, 10% of its original price).
Especially when that gear is something like JBL’s On Tour portable speakers.
Let’s see what the On Tour has going for it:sleek and small [...]

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On the surface, the ITC One is a pretty cool concept. But when you really break it down, it ends up resembling more one of those products that addresses a question no one has asked. But that may have something to do with its $25,000+ price tag…
SE2 Labs bills the ITC One as having “every [...]

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When Logitech introduced the Audio Station about 18 months ago, it was the flagship iPod speaker system from the company. Sporting such features as an AM/FM radio, digital clock, video out, and impressive audio quality, the Audio Station was “well worth its [$299] price tag,” I wrote in my review.
If I liked it at $299—and [...]

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The way I see it, there are a few reasons you’d want to take your records and digitize them:to avoid having to re-purchase an album you already ownto digitize an album that’s only ever been released on vinylto capture the nuisances of vinyl playback that are missing from CDs or iTunes Store downloads
If you’re looking [...]

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