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Little Horn speakers pack an audiophile’s wet dream into an elegant form. According to makers Specimen Products, the speakers’ supersized phonograph-like horns “posses a life-like soundstage unlike anything ever heard.” I don’t know what a soundstage is, but it seems that the way the horns are shaped enables lower frequency sound to spread out in…
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September 28th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: audio design home entertainment strange + wonderful technology
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Let me start out by saying that my entire 5.1 home theater sound system cost less than $1,000 bucks, so the thought of paying $1,000,000 for a single speaker is about as foreign a concept to me as Paris Hilton spending $325k on a dog house.
Still, if you have more money than god, you…
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August 6th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: audio strange + wonderful technology
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Weighing all of 48 lbs, VPI’s award winning Scoutmaster turntable is a literal heavyweight. But now it’s got a big brother, the TEAC VPI Scoutmaster II, with an aluminum block platter that weighs 19 lbs and a total weight of 53 lbs. According to Akihabara News, the weight of the turntable offsets unwanted vibration to…
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July 1st, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: audio design gadgets home entertainment media players strange + wonderful technology
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At the tip-top of the audiophile market, there’s an elite group of folks who think the best way to listen to music is on a good old-fashioned analog turntable. This record player is for them.
The DaVinciAudio Labs AAS Gabriel turntable bases its unique design on the same process that’s used to cut grooves into…
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September 12th, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: audio design home entertainment