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Audio Docks & Speakers

House of Marley Liberate BT Review: Impressive Sound in a Pretty Package

The Liberate BT has Marley’s signature look, and at £99.99 it fits into the firm’s usual mid-range price point. But can it deliver the sound quality and usability to match?

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Audio Docks & Speakers

Bluesound Node Review: Goodbye Sonos, Hello Bluesound

The Bluesound Node is a wireless streaming music player that finally connects all of your digital music to any existing stereo system.

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Audio Streaming Services

TIDAL’s New Owner Jay-Z Announces His Vision For High Quality Music #TidalforAll

Jay-Z tonight outlined his vision as the new owner of TIDAL in a live streamed broadcast to the planet. In case you haven’t heard of TIDAL before, it’s essentially a music streaming service, but unlike services like Spotify that play compressed files, TIDAL delivers high-fidelity sound. Alicia Keys presented an artist owned music streaming format to create a better…

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Audio Docks & Speakers

Bluesound Duo Speaker Review

The Bluesound Duo is standard 2.1 compact powered subwoofer and satellite speaker combination that is a formidable performer. Read my full thoughts here.

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Audio Docks & Speakers

Kitsound Glow Speaker Review: Funky Colours, Lacklustre Build Quality

The Good: Nice range of colours, decent sound, impressive battery life The Bad: Poor build quality, confused remote, no music sync The Bottom Line: The colours are pretty and the sound is decent, but it looks and feels seriously cheap When we review speakers, sound is often studied and contrasted as a standalone medium. But vision can…

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Audio Docks & Speakers

OTONE Launches Blufiniti Bluetooth Speaker With A Limo Ride Around London

Last week the guys over at OTONE — a British audio company — took a different approach to product launches. Rather than inviting everybody to a single location to announce the launch of their new speaker, the Blufiniti, they picked us up one-by-one in a Hummer Limo instead and took us for a spin! Meeting…

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Audio Docks & Speakers

Raumfeld Launch High Fidelity Multi-Room Streaming System

Raumfeld’s new suite of streaming products include high quality floor-standing room fillers, very stylish book shelf cubes and a simple high quality speaker for your ‘quieter rooms’.

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Audio Headphones

Sennheiser HD335 Over-Ear Headphones Review

The Good: The 335’s provide excellent comfort, premium sound quality, and superior build quality, plus some cool features like a built-in volume dial and a twisting ear cup for DJ use. The Bad: The design is not too appealing to the younger generation and the volume dial does not change the device’s volume, but adjusts the volume input…

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Amplifiers Audio Headphones

Oppo HA-2 Portable Headphone Amplifier Released This Week

I saw the Oppo HA-2 headphone amplifier as a pre-production version at the headroom portable audio show earlier this year. It was a sleek, thin, elegant and aesthetically pleasing piece of equipment that is soft to the touch. This week you can buy it, but for now just take a sneek peek, it’s lovely. We…

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Amplifiers Audio

Naim NAC-N 272 network streaming pre-amplifier announced for March

Naim has announced this week the launch of a new network streaming pre-amplifier, the new NAC-N 272 will be available from March. The 272 will have a zero jitter S/PDIF DAC and DSD64 compatibility. Naim suggests that future customers of the NAC-N 272 will be upgrading from SuperUniti, or NaimUniti 2. As a Uniti2 owner…