The folks at AERIAL7 have come through with a lovely pair of over-ear headphones in the TANK, here in their newest iteration bringing you a completely do-it-yourself aesthetic. The DIY TANK model comes in all white with a set of materials on the surface that allow for great connections with markets, paint, ink, and everything in-between. Got an artist in the family that also likes to customize everything they own? This might be just the ticket.
These headphones provide a sound quality that’s certainly reflective of the price at $100 USD – 57mm drivers with frequency response between 5-20KHz and sensitivity at 108 +/- 3dB at 1KHz. In other words, they sound great for your average music lover. Also included in the package is a 1 meter long coiled standard headphone jack cable that extends up to 2.5m, a 1.2m light weight cable with a microphone for your smartphone, and a 3.5mm – 6.3mm (1/4″) adapter to plug in on your much more massive equipment.
These headphones are rather adjustable with folding-in action for storage, flip-up phones so you can listen in with one ear along, and thick earphone covers so you’re not hearing all sorts of outside forces when you’re trying to concentrate on your favorite track. The headband also extends for multiple head sizes – even if you’ve got a gigantic melon.
As these headphones are entirely white before you get to coloring them in, the package includes a lovely silky sack to carry the phones (and your cords) around in. Not just for protection against the elements and keeping your bits all together, but to stop the dirt in your backpack from messing up your phones soon-to-be-lovely aesthetics. To color the phones you get three rather generous permanent markers in the box: red, blue, and black. I say generous because they’re not your standard throwaway “10 minutes and over” sorts of crap markers, they’ve got quite a bit of juice in them.
The actual application process you’ll go through with these phones is pretty decent. There’s no surface here that doesn’t readily accept the markets included in the package, and aside from the same “just let it dry for a second” caution you’ll need to pay attention to no matter what surface you’re working with, you’ll find the art portion of this adventure to be entirely enjoyable. We’ve opted for a rather simple set of designs on the phones we’ve got here thus far, hitting each of the different materials and all angles to make sure we’ve got no dead-zones on the hardware – good news: it’s all good!
AERIAL7 TANK DIY over-ear headphones Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The next iteration of iTunes, iTunes 11, is expected to be a major revamp but unfortunately the launch of iTunes 11 has been delayed. No specific date was given for its release apart from a November time frame, although if the reports are to be believed, it looks like we can expect to see iTunes 11 go up for download in the next few days. According to reports, it seems that Apple has sent out requests to artists and music labels for high resolution images and galleries for its iTunes 11 release, which according to the message, will be “within the next few days”. We have no way to confirm whether these reports are accurate so we suggest you take it with a grain of salt for now, but since we are still in November and Apple did promise a release in November, it wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination if this was real. In anyway case we’ll keep an eye out for the next few days and see if the rumors pan out, so stay tuned for more updates!
The Ferrari Logic3 Scuderia FS1 Bluetooth Speaker Dock is no ordinary speaker dock, especially when you have the fabled prancing horse logo dancing right across it. It is said that this particular Bluetooth speaker dock was inspired by the Scuderia Ferrari racing team as well as the GT car’s innovative lines, creases and curves. It will burn a $549 hole in your pocket (and no rubber on the asphalt), boasting a sleek and sophisticated design. The Ferrari Logic3 Scuderia FS1 Bluetooth Speaker Dock will be one of the more exclusive 2.1 speaker systems you will purchase at that price point, where it will be powered by patented Class HD Technology that has been integrated with a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), and the latter controls the crossover and equalization so that it can coax the very best performance possible, boasting natural musical timbre and extended low frequency response.
The Ferrari Logic3 Cavallino T350 Headphones has just been announced to make its way to the US, and with the Ferrari brand name involved, you can be sure that plenty of care and consideration has gone into the construction of the headphones in order to reflect the luxury of Ferrari via the Logic3 audio accessories route. Working alongside the world’s leading audio designers and Ferrari’s team, it is certainly a pair of cans that will celebrate the style and technical excellence of Ferrari.
