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Holiday Gift Guide: Audio Gear Edition

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1. Headphones, Docks and Speakers...Oh My!

To start our series of holiday gift guides, we present a selection of high-quality audio gear that'll get your loved ones to listen up and rock out.

If you've been a reader of Tom's Guide and Tom's Hardware for a while, you know that it is our annual tradition to bring you a slew of very festive holiday gift guide articles. This year is no exception. Our three assistants were just about as excited about some of this new technology as we were. Thanks Carlyn, Michelle, and Jennifer!

We're starting out with audio-related gear: noise-canceling headphones, ear-buds, docks, sound bars, media players, Blue-tooth headsets, and more. We considered a range of budgets and priorities, and focused on the newest designs to hit the market. We think you'll find something here that would appeal to someone on your holiday shopping list.

Happy Holidays!

-The Tom's Guide Team


All photography by Wei Shi

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Kenzoro 11/21/2011 10:34 AM
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what? no sennheiser? haiz..

torque79 11/21/2011 4:12 PM
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Nice to see Shure recognized, I love my SRH840's. Much better balanced than those excessively bassy hip-hop star headphones.

Great job with the photography, and great choices of very pretty models.

mayankleoboy1 11/21/2011 6:45 PM
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great choice in selecting Carlyn.
she is very pretty

sandmanwn 11/21/2011 7:12 PM
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Nice job ladies!

Interesting set of audio products as well.

dconnors 11/21/2011 9:26 PM
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Kenzoro :
what? no sennheiser? haiz..



We've covered them earlier in the year.

mayankleoboy1 11/22/2011 4:06 PM
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@dconnors:

can we have a photoshoot with models posing as "gamer girls"?

this could even be scheduled with hd7xxx or gtx6xx launch

dconnors 11/23/2011 12:42 PM
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mayankleoboy1 :
@dconnors:can we have a photoshoot with models posing as "gamer girls"?this could even be scheduled with hd7xxx or gtx6xx launch



What would the outfits be? WoW hoodies and cans of Red Bull?
-Devin

Syaoran74 11/23/2011 2:26 AM
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can you recommend a good pair of earbuds rather than just in-ears

dconnors 11/23/2011 2:34 AM
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Syaoran74 :
can you recommend a good pair of earbuds rather than just in-ears



I'm not sure if I follow...I thought all earbuds were in-ear?

Syaoran74 11/23/2011 3:06 AM
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dconnors :
I'm not sure if I follow...I thought all earbuds were in-ear?


I've always classified the in-ears as "in-ears" and the non-in-ear as "earbuds"
well im after the non in-ear earphones

torque79 11/23/2011 4:32 PM
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I guess we still don't understand what you're looking for. The Phiaton phones sit on top of your ears (supra-aural), the Sony and the Soul ones both cup around (surround) your ears (circumaural).

Maybe you want earbuds that don't go into your ear canal, but sit just outside them? I doubt you'd ever see one of those recommended here because the sound quality is vastly inferior compared to any other option.

mayankleoboy1 11/25/2011 2:45 PM
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dconnors :
What would the outfits be? WoW hoodies and cans of Red Bull?-Devin



no.
what i had in mind was models playing various genre games on various platforms.
and she should atleast try to pose as if she is enjoying the game.