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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
