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PC Magazine
January 12, 2005
John R. Quain |
MP3 Goes Multichannel The file format that inspired millions of downloads hopes to inspire music fans to do something else: buy more speakers.   |
PC Magazine
April 28, 2004
John R. Quain |
MP3 Grows Up--But Do We Want It To? You can rip, copy, or play an MP3 file, but one thing you can't do is get more than two channels of sound out of it. |
Home Toys
December 2002
Mohsin Imtiaz |
Multichannel Mayhem With its ability to create a dramatically more realistic and immersive audio experience, multichannel audio is now migrating to applications and systems beyond its original home in the home theater. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007 |
Upgrade Wish List: Sonic Boon According to Creative, its Xmod is a digital audio miracle worker, restoring MP3s to better-than-studio-quality sound and delivering rich surround sound for movies. |
Home Theater
January 27, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Who Wants a Souped-Up MP3? MusicDNA will embed extras but only for authorized downloaders. |
AskMen.com
March 13, 2001
Peter Richmond |
Buying The Best Home Theater If you're going to buy a home theater system, do it right the first time. Is it really worth the expense and trouble of shopping around? Yes... |
PC World
November 2003
Stan Miastkowski |
Surround Yourself With PC Sound Install a sound card or sound processor to pump up your system's audio power. |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
Ryan Flinn |
Surround Sound for the Earbud Generation Although Dolby's new PC software brings virtual surround sound to laptops, many consumers put convenience over quality. |
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2007
Jack Ewing |
An Idea Incubator Tries To Grow Cash The Fraunhofer Society invented MP3 - but others have reaped most of the profits. |
PC World
January 2002
Eric Dahl |
Powerful PC Speaker Set The THX-certified Z-560 speaker set from Logitech offers impressive sound for a reasonable price... |
PC World
February 16, 2001
Michael Gowan |
How It Works: Hardware MP3 Players Your digital audio is now free to roam away from your PC. Here's how MP3 hardware players work. |
Home Theater
September 2005
Chris Chiarella |
LTB Audio LTB-AC3 5.1 Surround Sound Headphone System LTB delivers a complete Dolby Digital headphone kit at a reasonable price. While bass reproduction is problematic, the experience is otherwise quite convincing and is a cut above others' faux-surround approach. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Emile Menasche |
Your Music The emergence of legal download services, dedicated network audio receivers and obscenely inexpensive hard drives have made a computer the next must-have component for your home entertainment system. |
PC World
May 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Upgrade Guide: Revamp Your PC's Sound System Steps for expanding your audio dimensions... |
PC World
September 25, 2007
Dan Tynan |
The Sound of Things to Come This year, high-def audio. Next year, the connected receiver. Before long, we will all be surrounded by sound. |
Home Theater
July 2002 |
MP3 Via DVD MP3 compressed audio is coming to a DVD player near you. |
PC World
January 2001
Joel Strauch |
Crank It Up With Dolby Digital Sound Cards Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Live Platinum 5.1 and Philips's Acoustic Edge... |
Popular Mechanics
July 2005
Lawson Wong |
Surround Sound Showdown Getting 3D acoustics at home is a tough challenge. Can virtual systems keep up with multispeaker setups in a listening test? |
PC World
September 2005
Kalpana Ettenson |
Surround Sound in a Box Skeptics might disagree, but it's possible to get great sound from a one-box unit. These four options save space and reduce hassles. |
PC Magazine
December 30, 2003
Ted Huang |
Get Digital Get Digital provides next-day digital encoding for the time-constrained music lover. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Top Five Bluetooth Devices to Streamline Your Life Anycom BIWAS-20... Belkin bluetooth USB adapter... Plantronics Audio 910 bluetooth headset kit... Parrot 3400 LS-GPS bluetooth hands-free car kit... Logitech FreePulse wireless headphones... |
Home Theater
June 29, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Samsung Adopts SRS for TVs SRS TheaterSound offers volume leveling, vocal clarity, surround-like effects. |
PC Magazine
October 17, 2005
Michael Kobrin |
Pioneer XW-HT1 Digital Wireless Speaker System The XW-HT1 adds value to any home theater that doesn't already include a true surround speaker setup. |
Home Theater
December 27, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
DualDisc Gets Heady Multichannel Treatment Dolby Headphone-encoded tracks make debut on Silverline Records DualDisc releases. |
Home Theater
March 2006
Chris Chiarella |
5.1 for Your Noggin Who says you need speakers for discrete surround sound? Listen To Believe (LTB) offers an assortment of discrete 5.1 headphone systems for just about every home theater or gaming scenario, depending upon your tastes and budget. |
PC World
January 7, 2001
Cameron Crouch |
Digital Music Streams Beyond the PC CES's selection of stereo products and portable devices play Web-based tunes where you want to hear them (for a price)... |
Home Toys
October 2002 |
What is Digital? An Exploration of Terms and Usage So many things come with the digital designation the true concept of what digital actually is has become diluted over time. |
| AskMen.com |
6 High-Quality Wireless Headphones Home-based headphone listening is an entirely different ball game than listening on the road. Sennheiser RS120... Pioneer SE-DIR800C... Panasonic RP-WH5000... Sennheiser RS65... Sennheiser RS130... Sony MDR-DS4000... |
PC Magazine
February 8, 2008
Loyd Case |
Playing MP3s Through a Stereo Connecting MP3 players to a stereo system for playback. |
Home Theater
January 16, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Portable Personal Surround Sound JVC's new SU-HD1 will accept analog or digital audio and has a built-in Dolby Headphone technology that provides a 5.1-channel surround sound experience through standard cheap or really good two-channel headphones. |
Fast Company
December 2000
Amy Wilson Sheldon |
One For All Whether you prefer to burn your own, buy retail, or download from the Internet, the Philips eXpanium is sure to please. The unit plays your ripped CDs, standard discs, MP3 files -- even discs with multiple formats -- without getting all hot and bothered about it... |
Home Theater
February 20, 2002 |
Meridian 800/861: "World's Best" British audio technology company Meridian Audio, Ltd. has announced important upgrades to Version 3 of its 800 optical disc player and 861 reference surround controller, including proprietary encryption and signaling technology... |
Home Theater
April 16, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
Wireless Home Theater - with an Asterisk Three affordable new home theater systems are wireless-ready but don't cut the cord completely. Here's Panasonic's SC-HT730, SC-HT830V, and SC-HT930. |
PC World
April 2003
Eric Dahl |
Great Sound, No Hassle M-Audio sound card produces high-quality output but lacks some software extras. |
Macworld
May 2001
Anton Linecker |
What? No Vinyl Version? MP3 players have gotten flashier, sleeker, and more futuristic. But only one can claim the distinction of being retro-chic. The $250 Duo-Aria MP3 player by Digisette looks decidedly nondigital... |
Macworld
April 2002
Jonathan Seff |
Free MP3 Application Matures With its new features, iTunes 2.0.3 has become a fully capable MP3 player, encoder, and jukebox. Its few missing features are overshadowed by an easy-to-use interface -- and the fact that it's free... |
Home Theater
November 15, 2001 |
Onkyo Breaks Price Barrier with Bundled System Onkyo has introduced a very affordable complete home theater system, with surround-sound receiver, DVD/CD player, and multichannel speakers... |
Home Theater
January 30, 2009 |
Dolby and DTS Get High Dolby and DTS are both gearing up to take surround sound to the next step in its evolution. Both are preparing to add height channels to their existing surround standards. |
AskMen.com
May 30, 2002
Christian Lander |
How To: Set Up A Home Theater System There's almost nothing stopping you from quickly and easily setting up a home theater system for a reasonable price... |
Popular Mechanics
April 2008
Seth Porges |
Sennheiser MX W1 Headphones Are Ultimate Wireless Earbuds Finally a wireless device designed to transfer high-quality audio. |
PC Magazine
October 14, 2003
Sahil Gambhir |
New NetMD The entry-level Sony NetMD Walkman Model MZ-N510CK comes with such goodies as a car kit, CD and MP3 transfer software, a desktop and headphone remote, and a jogging band. |
PC World
September 2002
Sean Captain |
Quick Takes: Music for a Song RCA's portable Lyra Jukebox RD2800 combines an MP3 player with a 10GB hard drive. |
PC World
March 2004
Josh Taylor |
Digital Audio Hi-Fi These devices let you play digital audio through your stereo system, and the only finger you have to lift is the one on your remote control. |
PC World
February 2005
Dan Tynan |
Golden Receivers How to choose the right audio/video receiver. |
PC Magazine
September 2, 2003
Craig Ellison |
Radio Mouse The MouseCaster is a PS/2 scroll-wheel mouse based on rollerball technology with a unique quality: It includes an FM stereo tuner that plays through your computer's speakers. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006
Mike Kobrin |
Expert View: A Flash Player FAQ Flash players are better than hard drive players in some ways... What format and bit rate you should use to get music for your flash-based MP3 player... Shopping advice on when and where to get flash-based MP3 players... |
Home Theater
December 20, 2002 |
Onkyo TX-SR800 If you've been considering a move to 7.1 surround sound, Onkyo has a receiver that might be just what you're looking for. |
AskMen.com
Rob Lester |
Setting Up A Digital Audio Center There are three ways to optimize the vast music library that many people now boast, each with their own pros and cons. Take a look as I lay out these options and provide examples of the top products in each category. |
AskMen.com
Steve Guttenberg |
Top 4 MP3 Player Speakers These mini, battery-powered wonders are the hot ticket for travelers, dorm rooms, the beach, or the office; they plug into iPods, MP3 players, and laptop headphone jacks, with sound that can easily fill a small to medium-size room. |
Home Theater
July 17, 2008 |
Some Confuse TVs with Audio Systems It's horrifying that one-third of consumers in the U.S. and Canada are listening to music on their television sets. |
