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Wireless headphones are steadily flooding the market, and the most popular are the True Wireless Stereo models, where the headphones communicate wirelessly with the audio source as well as with each other. I recently spoke with the European marketing director of a company that makes great wireless headphones. I would be happy to state what it was about, but the man asked me to leave him unnamed if I had to quote him. His company specializes in wireless in-ear headphones – these are the ones that should be pushed into the ear canal. I enthusiastically conveyed to him the impressions

Hygiene In An Elegant Way Listening to music in the shower is a ritual for many, but if you are listening to music from your cell phone you have to admit that the pleasure is not complete. The solution to this problem was invented by designer Gianluca Paludi for Olympia Ceramica company. The sophisticated straight-line design is fully functional in both directions: the tonearm has taken on the role of a faucet, the buttons regulate water temperature and pressure, and an amplifier and speaker are included in the storage drawer, which are also Bluetooth compatible. They are called Vinyl. Unfortunately,

Amazon Prime Day 2019 is here. Amazon’s shopping holiday has begun and will run through until Tuesday, July 16. However, don’t worry, if you’ve missed Amazon early weekend wave of Prime Day deals that includes Prime Day gaming monitor deals, Prime Day CPU deals, and Prime Day SSD deals, to name a few, you can still find them here. Now in its fifth year, Amazon Prime Day is the e-tailer’s summer version of Black Friday. Although shoppers must be Prime members to participate, anyone can sign up for a free 30-day Prime membership trial. Amazon Device Deals It almost goes without saying that some of the

THE+RECORD PLAYER is an all-in-one record player featuring a built-in, high-performance music system with high-quality phono components and advanced listening features. Made to please the discerning audiophile, it can be enjoyed by any music lover seeking a compact and elegant vinyl playing solution. THE+RECORD PLAYER is a highly versatile analog and digital music system. In addition to 33/45 rpm vinyl playback, it includes Bluetooth for streaming music from digital devices, optical input for connection to a digital audio source or TV, and a USB input/output for ripping your vinyl to PC, or playing back your music files. THE+RECORD PLAYER includes

It would be pretentious to write that the younger generation certainly does not know how it looks (less likely), especially what a sound is that is reproduced from the vinyl records because in the past year vinyl returns to the big scene. But it is true that the vinyl records generally had a cult status among musicians and traditionalists who kept them proud and jealously in their archives. The technology that has been developing in the last decades is mostly reduced to the concept of “less is more”, so all media for storing or reproducing music are delivered to as

How it looks to us, and this became a general conclusion when we read various audiophile forums and blogs, it is not a matter of the vinyl record itself or of a CD. The thing is in audio production. Music was due to the technical requirements of the record and the CD, because of the equipment used during production, because of the equipment it is listening to, differently produced for records and CDs and it sounds different when it is produced in a different way. Before digital technology takes over our lives, everything worked in an analog way. Then digital

There are numerous reasons why people would like to convert vinyl to MP3, here are a few of the obvious ones: They save thousands of dollars in MP3 costs! If we say that the average LP has 12 tracks on it, and a download costs $0.69 per track, then each vinyl record will generate you $8.28 worth of digital music. It seems silly to buy digital music if you already own it in another format, it is completely legal to copy your music as long as you don’t then share those MP3s with your friends. It helps to keep your

Even Steve Jobs listened to vinyl records! The late CEO of Apple, whose iTunes store made a revolution in the sale and distribution of music listened to the record player at home – said a celebrated musician Neil Young 2012. Although Young himself entered the market rush of digitizing music with his Pono player to play audio files of high quality (FLAC) he doesn’t believe in digital audio. The reason for this are compressed MP3 files and digital streaming services like Youtube and Pandora that have become the standard for listening to music. As a result, sales of vinyl records

One of the realities of the era in which we live is that electric power companies are not able to deliver consumers a clean and constant voltage of 110 V 60 Hz which is necessary for the correct and reliable operation of sophisticated electronic devices such as computers or top-end audio systems. Complex studies posted on sites like https://www.gseav.com, of known companies such as IBM study showed that the average computer user has an average of 120 power supply problems per month. In 55% of cases, these are the consequences of disturbances mains, 11% of the consequences of storm, 8%

DIY Audio Rack In this article, we’ll make an excellent audio rack. That rack in the store costs a lot of money and it is by its appearance and by its sound a very serious product.  This is an audio rack of three independent shelves that are made of MDF 25 mm thick and the adjustable legs are made of aluminum tube thickness of 30 mm. The pipe walls are 10 mm thick. With three adjustable legs, we achieve the lowest point of contact on one component over another. You probably already know that aluminum is the best acoustic material

Although we live in the digital era, vinyl records are still appreciated, and audio experts unanimously agree that vinyl records most convincing reproduce the recorded sound. On that note, we present the most valuable records ever. The list includes only studio releases. The value of the records is usually increased with the original, first editions, of which the highest price (possibly) is never unpacked and replayed. Bonus are rare or withdrawn covers and often autographs of famous musicians additionally influence the price. Rare records of famous bands, printed in one copy can cost very much, as will be seen in

There are common misconceptions regarding the vinyl records, and we’re here to reveal you the truth. So, the purpose of this text is to try to break up some, by the opinion of the author of this text, false myths about vinyl today. Although some of them have a real basis, it may be necessary to observe things from a different perspective in order to see a bigger picture. However, before the start of reading of the text, the author of the text emphasizes that, given the multitude of genres, formats, origin, etc., vinyl albums, in further text “vinyl record”

Here is a list of a 5 incredible turntables that all exists today: 1. Submerged Turntable Installation Listen to the sound of record submerged in water The artist Evan Holm performed something that everyone rational considers impossible – a record player works perfectly even underwater. To create ‘Submerged Turntable’ (immersed turntable), Holm has used various objects, including a piece of old wood and makeshift pool in which the same piece is submerged. The message of this installation was that people deliberately destroy natural resources and that on a daily basis, but despite this, there is a glimmer of repentance and

Almost 140 years after the invention of the first turntable, probably its most technologically advanced incarnation appeared. MAG-LEV Audio is the first record player in the world to stabilize vinyl records during playback used magnetic levitation. With this, the device gramophone record graded on a tray and an ordinary turntable, but before turning the base tray retracts into the body and leaves it in a levitating position. In addition, MAG-LEV Audio works like any other turntable – the needle on the record is set manually, and after playing it automatically returns to its original position. An actuating mechanism and the