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JVC Kenwood is releasing a stylish sound system, the RV-S1-S, with a unique tube-like design. It produces powerful deep bass sounds and avoids unnecessary vibrations, utilizing 4 high-powered speakers (including 2 woofer outputs).
The built-in iPhone/iPod dock is also very interesting. You can close the cover, so it will protect the device during outdoor activity. When using iPhone 5, you need to connect it to the USB Port.
Music saved with USB memory or SD card (MP3/WMA) is playable. …

eMusic has been around for years and has required users to purchase a subscription even if they wanted to buy music from the online store. That has now changed with the company announcing that starting this week anyone will be able to visit eMusic.com and purchase songs or albums at a retail price without needing a subscription. Forcing people to buy a subscription to buy music never made a lot of sense as a business model.

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However, users who do have a subscription will still be able to login and purchase music at a discounted rate. The website will maintain the same tools including personalized discovery tools and features. Shoppers without a membership will be able to access the full catalog of music from every major label and nearly all independent labels.

The company’s president and CEO Adam Klein announced the change this week. Klein says that the company has been around for nearly 14 years and the change in the firm’s business model invites everyone to engage with the music service the company offers. It remains unclear exactly how much more shoppers without a membership will pay compared to those with a membership.

Klein also noted that eMusic is in talks with a number of major companies in the OEM market, wireless, and cable operators as well as big-box retailers. He offered no details on what sort of services eMusic is in talks to provide for these companies. It would be safe to assume that we may see the music service bundled with smartphone purchases and more in the future.

[via eMusic]

eMusic removes subscription requirement opening the doors to all is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Whenever we hear the words Portable Drums, we think of the traditional drum kit with its stand and heavy drum-sets  Kevin Depape (seen on Yanko Design) goes one step further into the world of electronic drum sets. He introduces a portable yet very high tech drum kit called the Y-Drum portable drums. These drums are designed to be for everyone, starting from beginners to folks with good drumming skills. In fact just about anyone who wants to have more fun with percussion drumming should be able to enjoy the Y-Drum portable drum – at least, that’s the idea.

In theory, you simply build your own set with the pads available in the kit virtually anywhere you feel like drumming. Or for a conventional setup, follow the instructions included in the box pack (if it was an actual product). Also included in the case is a charger and cordless headphones. Hook up your favorite computer or smartphone that needs to have the Roland’s application installed on it and connect via Bluetooth to the Y-Drum kit (the main “box”), which is itself connected to the laptop via USB. This functionality is quite handy as you do not have to deal with wires getting in your way while playing. Simply start playing your favorite drum tunes and say good bye to air drumming.  At this point, this is just a concept, but would you like it to become a product? How would you use it?

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I am sure that pretty much anyone you may own an amazing Audio System at home that lack any Wireless capabilities. Unfortunately there are not many solution on the market that will not cost you an arm or a leg. However today Princeton came with a nice little solution with the PTM-BTR1. There isn’t anything fancy about this little Black box and we could even reproach Princeton’s choice when it comes to the lack of optical out on these PTM-BTR1, But at 2,980 Yen the PTM-BTR1 being …

When you listen to music, when its waves of sound collide with your ear, you don’t hear a wall of sound. A great deal of information might travel in a sound wave and, if that sound wave were actually a giant wave of water rushing onto a beach, you might expect to feel it as a big shove like any other big wave of water coming in from the ocean. Except that’s not what happens when this particular wave hits you. Standing there ankle deep in the surf, you brace for it to crash against your body, but when it does arrive, it’s not a “hit” at all. Instead, you feel a hundred different things at once, all on different parts of your body. Some places it’s a cool brushing, others it soft slap or the feeling of a light sunburn. And then the wave is passed. More »