ADS Tech Instant Music: The Fountain of Youth for Your Analog Music?

Published on May 5, 2005 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

Instant Music from ADS Tech lets you digitize analog vinyl discs and audio cassettes on a PC or Mac with just a few mouse clicks. It also has optical inputs and outputs for digital sources such as CD or MiniDisc players. Instant Music is bundled with a very complete set of software. Read more

Music Meets Wireless Mesh Network: The Sonos Digital Music System

Published on April 15, 2005 to Networking

The Sonos Digital Music System promises to wirelessly beam music or Internet radio to every room in your house, without breaking the bank in the process. But how well does it work? Read more

How Small Can Music Players Get?

Published on March 16, 2007 to Home Theater

Choose between convenience and control, no display and display, cuteness and connectivity with the iPod Shuffle and Samsung's blue-lit YP-U2. You may be surprised by our audio quality assessment. Read more

More Than Music, With Still The Smallest Screens

Published on October 25, 2006 to Home Theater

We're now used to having music in our pockets and we're starting to demand more. True media players are bulky; they have to be to fit the screen. Playing video and watching photos on the smallest devices can still be frustrating because of the screen size. The Creative Zen V Plus disappoints, but it does a reasonable job. Read more

Carefree Music Streaming With The Logitech Wireless DJ Music System

Published on October 26, 2006 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

Mike Baggaley found that Logitech's latest wireless music streaming system handles DRM-protected files as easily as your own ripped music. Read more

Logitech Wireless Music System for PC

Published on February 14, 2006 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

Logitech's Wireless Music family uses Bluetooth for digital audio streaming. Patrick Schmid checks out the PC version paired with Logitech's Wireless Headphones for PC. Read more

Music, Plus Phone Calls, Minus Wires

Published on October 12, 2006 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

We'd all love to go wireless and combine the quality of headphones with the convenience of a Bluetooth headset. The problem is not with the headphones and headsets Jabra offers to bridge the divide, but rather the gadgets you connect them to. If you have stereo and remote control Bluetooth profiles on your devices, these are the headphones for you; for everyone else, here's a glimpse of the future. Read more

Squeezebox For In Home Music Distribution

Published on November 30, 2005 to Networking

If you want to listen to your digital music collection in your bedroom or in your living room, you don't want to have to fire up a PC. Read more

Making Portable Music With Saitek

Published on September 29, 2005 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

For many music lovers, an MP3 player is now a "must have," letting them take sound with them to listen to anywhere. But that normally means using headphones or earphones, and all the limitations that go with those devices. There have been no lack of attempts to come up with a listening system that combines amplifier and speakers in a small footprint, but the results often don't meet expectations. Has Saitek found the magic formula? Read more

Music That Fits In Your Pocket

Published on August 25, 2005 to Home Theater

In choosing one of the eight Microdrive MP3 players reviewed here, key deciding factors are their technical capabilities and their ergonomics. Which is best depends on your usage habits and needs. Read more

Music Remixing and Matching Power with StikAx

Published on December 17, 2005 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

StikAx from Ministry of Sound purportedly transforms your music remixing experience. Compared to the legions of competing software out there we found improvements, but "revolutionary" is not quite the right word. Read more

Slim Devices and Infrant Make Expensive Music Together

Published on July 27, 2006 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

Slim Devices has bundled its Squeezebox and Infrant's ReadyNAS NV to go after Sonos in the high-end, whole-house audio market. Jim Buzbee looks at the odds of their success. Read more

The Anti-Dock: Sonos 2.0 Reviewed

Published on August 5, 2008 to Networking

The multi-room wireless music network from Sonos frees your music from your iPod and computer hard drive. How does its product refresh compare? Read more

DVD Quality Video on a Camera Phone?

Published on November 20, 2006 to Smartphones

Throw away that mega-buck video camera. If Mike Hodgkinson, Director of Rob Dickinson's "Oceans" music video is right, all you need to make it to MTV or VH1 is Nokia's N93 camera phone. See the video and the making-of video, as well as a slideshow featuring the N93. Read more

iRiver H10: Music To Go... And Photos Too

Published on March 1, 2005 to Home Theater

iRiver included an image-browing system in its new H10 jukebox to set it apart from other 5 GB music players. While various limitations make this feature less than ideal, the H10 has some other things going for it: good sound quality, Sennheiser earphones and simple operation. Read more