CES 2012 is shaping up to be a year of firsts. Just like AudioFly and Velodyne, Behringer is traveling into uncharted waters with their new, vast consumer electronics range of audio equipement under the Eurosound name. Everything from iPhone docks with wireless, inductive charging speakers to a wireless, waterproof pool speaker were shown off. Get a stiff drink and join us after the break… Soundscape Air An iPhone home dock with wireless speakers. But not just any…
Velodyne has long been known — 28 years in fact! — in the home audio world for their high-end home theater subwoofers. This year at CES they emerged into a new market: Personal Audio. The “vPulse”, as they’re being called, feature an acoustically balanced 9mm dynamic driver that according to Velodyne, were designed to have deep, accurate bass that doesn’t overpower or distory mids and highs. Other perks of of the vPulse include a…
We’ve just emerged from the pits of CES Unveiled freshly scathed and battered. But we’ve got a lot of awesome tech to show you. Starting things off: AudioFly. AudioFly is an Australian born company that according to founder Dave Thompson, was founded to create audio products that truly reproduce music in its fullest, purest form. At CES Unveiled AudioFly had several new models from their AF line to show off. That said, the fun starts after the break… The…
Spotify’s special event just wrapped up, and with it come details on the company’s future amongst a heap of recent Spotify articles good and bad. The once little known service inside the U.S. has quickly become a music juggernaut. During today’s event, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek stated that Spotify has secured licensing deals with all the major labels and adds over 20,000 tracks to Spotify’s library each and every day. According to Ek, the full library…
Ever since Apple relaxed iOS developer restrictions on “copying functionality of core Apple apps”, we’ve seen some great additions. In the browser realm there have been several 3rd party browsers such as Opera and Dolphin that while not perfect, bring their own unique features to the table. As far as music apps go, iOS is full of them. But one particular app that caught our eye over at Beautiful Pixels is a new Music.app replacement by the name of Audium…
Well, it is official with the Google press event wrapping up we know Google Music is official. With the online search giant dropping the beta tag and expanding its tendrils into the music industry by netting deals with major labels like EMI and Sony, it is shaping up to into quite the iTunes competitor. Google Music will allow users to upload up to 20,000 songs and stream them in 320 Kbps quality from pretty much any device that has a web browser. Best of all, all of this…
