Engadget’s back to school guide 2012: portable audio

Welcome to Engadget’s back to school guide! The end of summer vacation isn’t nearly as much fun as the weeks that come before, but a chance to update your tech tools likely helps to ease the pain. Today, we’re taking our audio with us — and you can head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back — at the end of the month we’ll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides — and hit up the hub page right here!

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With all of the studying and on-campus traveling you’re about to delve into, sometimes adding a bit of music to your step can spice up those mundane times in your daily routine. That’s why we’ve rounded up a selection of portable speakers and headphones that’ll not only help you rock out whenever the mood strikes, but also go a step further by letting you take phone calls without skipping a beat. It may not be audiophile-grade gear in the official sense, but it won’t matter when you’re enjoying good sound just about anywhere your smartphone-connected life takes you.

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Klipsch Image S4, Image S4i and Image S4A headphones launched

Klipsch has just launched the new Image S4, Image S4i and Image S4A headphones which are guaranteed to turn heads no matter where you go – especially when these new models will fill in the shoes as the updated versions of products that are already in the market. With a slight update in its features and capabilities, Klipsch has managed to deliver enhanced products without sacrificing on the traditional strengths in acoustics as well as unrivaled comfort.

For starters, the brand new Image S4, Image S4i and Image S4A will come with flat cabling which translates to added strength and tangle resistance, all coming in a more streamlined shape while delivering overall improvements in product durability.

Not only that, it will come with patented oval ear tips for which Klipsch is famous for, where each of the models will pave the way for hours of comfortable, long-term wear. It will be very different from circular-shaped ear tips which places additional stress on the pressure points within the ear, as Klipsch’s patented oval ear tips are a natural fit for the contours of the human ear canal. These ear tips are able to deliver superior noise isolation (or passive noise-cancellation), where it will block out nearly all ambient noise and provide excellent bass simultaneously.

All three models will deliver similar award-winning sound signature thanks to its 8.5mm dual magnet micro-speaker which covers a wide frequency range and delivers dynamic detail for the most strikingly realistic sound reproductions of music libraries. All three models – the Image S4, Image S4i and Image S4A will be released sometime this month, retailing for $79.99, $99.99 and $99.99, respectively.

When it comes to a decent pair of earphones, just which pair suits you the best? Do you have a favorite brand that you stick to all the time, or are you one who is willing to make a change as and when required.

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