The Magazine’s Year in Ideas issue of 12/13/09 contained an item by Robert Mackey with that headline. Here is the last paragraph: “In February, a music professor at Stanford, Jonathan Berger, revealed that he has found evidence that younger listeners have come to prefer lo-fi versions of rock songs to hi-fi ones. For six years, [...]
Tivoli Audio made its in initial splash in 2000, with the introduction of the elegant Model One table radio. Designed by the legendary Henry Kloss, it quickly established itself as one of the very best performing products in its class, and certainly the easiest to use. The Model One was, and is, a huge success, [...]
Bose has long been a font of secular miracles, most of them involving the production of Great Big Sound by Itty Bitty Boxes. Starting more than four decades ago, with the company’s seminal – and still available in highly evolved form – 901 speaker system, Bose has consistently taken the “bigger is better” theory of [...]
In my post about the original Bose SoundDock, I waxed enthusiastic about its stellar sound quality, ease of use, and attractive appearance. Those factors made it my absolute favorite among the many speaker docks available for Apple’s iPod. Still, it wasn’t perfect: first, it only worked when tethered to a source of AC power; and [...]
Bose’s recent introduction of a portable version of its SoundDock iPod speaker system has inspired me, at long last, to post these comments about the original version. I’ve been using the SoundDock since its introduction, and during that time, I’ve also auditioned at least a dozen other speaker systems designed for iPod use. None of [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of in-the-ear headphones, also known as earbuds. Maybe this goes back to my kidhood, listening to a cheap transistor radio, late at night, through its crappy hard plastic earpiece. Or maybe it just goes back to my mom saying never put anything except your elbow into your ear. Whatever [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of earbuds. Maybe it’s the residual effect of my mother’s admonition, when I was a child, to never insert anything other than my elbow into my ear. (Go ahead, try it. In your ear, I mean.) Or maybe it’s just that most earbuds have, over the years, proved to [...]
What sets the $299 Bose QuietComfort2 Noise-Cancelling Headphones apart from the herd is revealed in their long name. Noise-cancelling technology is, in theory, very simple. Here’s how it works: Ambient sound is captured by a built-in microphone, and the audio equivalent of a mirror image of that sound is amplified and played back through the [...]
OK, so you’re ready to settle in and watch a DVD on the home theater. The first step, of course, is to hunt down all of the necessary remotes, including the one that somehow wound up under the couch. Once all of the remotes are gathered, you use one remote to turn on the TV [...]
