Audio company Westone has announced the launch of the new W-series earphone design. The W-series are aimed music fans and audiophiles alike with some interesting features. The W-series includes the 10, 20, 30, and 40. All of the earphones use a proprietary balanced armature driver and advance crossover design. The W10 uses a single armature […]
Do all your awesome dance-troupe videos keep getting pulled from YouTube for copyright violation? If so, there’s finally an answer. The video-sharing site has just announced the launch of a new audio library, with 150 royalty-free music tracks for use on your videos. You can browse the library direct from your video manager page, and sounds can be sorted by genre, mood, instrument and so on. YouTube’s even making a call out to musicians that would be interested in having their work added to the list. Those moves of yours? The world’s not ready for them yet.
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Source: YouTube Creator Blog
While Sony’s lineup of Walkman media players don’t have the same sleekness of elegance compared to the iPod touch, they are favored by some audiophiles due to their ability to playback audio with surprising clarity. In any case we guess for the non-audiophile, it might boil down to a matter of preference, such as design and price, and if you’re in the market for a new media player, Sony has announced the Walkman NW-ZX1 and NW-F880. (more…)
Sony NW-F880 And NW-ZX1 Walkman Announced original content from Ubergizmo. 
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If you’re looking for an accessory that will match your recently acquired gold iPhone 5s, perhaps these pair of Happy Plugs earphones will do the trick, although you should be warned that getting your hands on a pair of these earphones will set you back an eye-watering $14,500. Yup, you read that right, these pair of gold plated earphones will cost you a small fortune, and why not? After all these earphones are crafted in Sweden and feature 25 grams of gold per earbud, not in total, but per earbud, meaning that you’d be stuffing your ears with about 50 grams worth of gold!
They have also been designed to resemble the original Apple earbuds so that’s a walk down memory lane for some of you, although we’re not sure if these guys have managed to fix the issue where the earbuds keep slipping out of your ears, and for $14,500 you would think they might. If you’re interested in getting your hands on these earphones, whose audio quality we can’t attest to, hit up the Happy Plugs website where you will be able to order one for yourself. Those who do not have $14,500 to spare will be happy to know that they offer regular earphones which are priced at a more reasonable $24.99-$29.99.
These Gold-plated Earphones Will Cost You $14,500 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Nowadays it’s quite possible to create and play music live using a computer. You can also use MIDI controllers to make it easier for you to interact with music software and audio files. However, pushing keys and fiddling with knobs isn’t intuitive or fun to watch. Computer Orchestra manages to be both by letting you be a conductor of computers.
Computer Orchestra was made by three students from the art and design university ECAL. Simon de Diesbach, Jonas Lacôte and Laura Perrenoud designed it to be a crowdsourcing interface for uploading samples and then triggering them on different computers using simple hand gestures.
The idea is that you’ll upload samples to or download samples from a website, then you’ll assign those samples to your “musicians” – in this case, the members of the orchestra are all laptops. Using a Wi-Fi connection, a Kinect sensor, a programming language called Processing and the software library called SimpleOpenNI, you can then trigger those computers to play by waving your hands towards them. There also seems to be other gestures that vary the way the computers play the samples.
I know it’s very impractical, but it also seems like a lot of fun. Perhaps it’s possible to make a simpler version of this with a Leap controller and an array of color or light sensors. Using one laptop per sample seems like overkill, although it’s a sight to behold.
[via Designboom]
Pyle Audio has introduced its latest audio offering, the Disco Jam Stereo Speaker System, a compact “party machine” that offers, among other things, an integrated disco ball. The setup is on wheels and comes with a handle, making it easy to wheel into a location and remove after the party is over, and is being […]
Marshall has launched a vintage-looking stereo speaker line called Stanmore that harkens back to “the golden days of rock n’ roll”, giving owners the best of both worlds with analog knobs and modern technology. The Stanmore speaker is being offered in both black and cream colors, with a metal grille across the front and large […]
Marshall’s new wireless speaker comes with a wonderful analog twist: knobs for adjusting volume, base, and treble.
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It’s not the easiest time to be a consumer on the hunt for a wireless Bluetooth speaker. New models are flooding the market on a daily basis, and wading through the hundreds of choices can be mind-numbing. So here’s a quick cheat sheet for you: If you want something small, consider Jawbone’s new Mini Jambox
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I don’t have an audiophile grade bone in my body. As long as there’s bass and I can understand the words in songs and in my favorite movies, I really don’t care what my speakers sound like. There are many people out there who are audiophiles and have ears good enough to hear the difference between cheap speakers and good speakers. If you can really discern the difference between high-quality sound and normal sound you’ll appreciate the KEF X300AW Wireless speakers.
The speakers are based on the well-reviewed X300A, and have two class AB amplifiers inside each one. A 50-watt amplifier drives the midrange and low end sound, while a 20-watt amp handles high frequencies for best sound quality overall. Their 802.11 b/g wireless capability allows the speakers to support streaming from mobile devices that are Airplay or DLNA compatible.
The speakers are also designed to connect directly to your Windows or Mac computer using a USB cable. When connected via USB the speakers support 96 kHz/24-bit HD audio and have a built-in digital analog converter. The manufacturer also equips the speakers with a 3.5 mm analog input. They’re available in either gunmetal or white cabinets.
If you think these sound like the speakers for you, get a load of the price. The speakers are available for $999.99(USD), which is a whole lot of cash for computer speakers. If you don’t need the wireless capability, the X300A speakers can be had for $200 less.
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