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Superb sound, fresh cable design define new Shure SE535 earphones

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The Shure SE535 Sound Isolating Earphones recently went on sale for, gasp, $499. Yes, that’s a price that makes one choke but if you can afford such a luxury, you will not be disappointed.

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The Sonos S5 is a fine player for (almost) every music option

Thursday, May 27, 2010

This story first appeared in Vegas Seven I’ve been testing a new speaker that is just shy of the perfect music-playing device for the digital age. It lacks one teeny, tiny feature (that I will get to shortly), but before I explain that minor whine, let me tell you what makes the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 [...]

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The Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 10 is the best TV I ever heard

Friday, March 26, 2010

I recently had a demonstration for one of the best sound systems I ever heard. And it was built into a TV. The BeoVision 10 is a 40-inch HDTV from Bang & Olufsen, the high-end Danish electronics maker. Bang & Olufsen considers itself a company that specializes in sound, so when it builds a TV, [...]

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A $10 CD sounds right to me

Friday, March 19, 2010

Universal Music Group said Thursday that it will start pricing new CD releases at $10 or less, a price point that should spur physical product sales over digital downloads. Hopefully, other labels will soon follow suit. Many people, including yours truly, prefer to own a physical CD than buying a digital version from Apple’s iTunes [...]

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For Pandora Web radio and founder Westergren, success is hear

Monday, March 8, 2010

I was very pleased this morning when I opened the New York Times to see a story about Pandora — the Web radio service, not the fictional planet — on the front page of the Business section. Better, it was a story about Pandora turning a major corner in its development, not a plea for [...]

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Children’s music for mom and dad

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

My wife and I are not the type of parents who enjoy listening to syrupy music recorded for kids. We can’t stand the usual stuff from Barney, Disney or Sesame Street. So we figured if the kids don’t hear it, they won’t know what they’re missing. On the other hand, listening to Los Lobos cover [...]

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Duh! MTV no longer about music. How to find music videos online

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

MTV finally admitted it doesn’t play music videos anymore – “I want my Jersey Shore” — a fact it emphasized with a new, reality-TV friendly logo. Missing from the new logo are the words “Music Television.” So where does one find music videos these days? The Web, of course. Why wait for a music television [...]

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