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Vertus Brings Bluetooth and Stereo Sound to Speakers

Vertus-pair

Itching for a new gadget to support on Kickstarter? Of course you are, especially since this one goes above and beyond of what’s available on the market right now. The Vertus is a system of not one but two specialized Bluetooth receivers that are meant to plug into speakers. One receiver is for the right more »

Pioneer Home Audio Receivers Ready for Smartphones

Pioneer VSX-1123

As today’s advanced smartphones continue to become essential components of the home entertainment experience, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. is making integration of these devices easy and convenient. Pioneer’s latest 2013 audio video receiver lineup, which includes the VSX-523 and VSX-823 5.1-channel, VSX-1023 7.1-channel, and VSX-1123 7.2-channel receivers, are designed to support today’s connected lifestyle, compatible with the two most popular smartphone OS platforms more »

Yamaha Wants to be Your Ultimate Music Portal

Yamaha CD-N500

Yamaha just introduced the CD-N500 network CD player that offers music fans a single flexible portal for all of their content from any source. It will play your CDs, downloaded music, and streamed music from your PC, NAS, smartphone, tablet, or internet radio. Sounds like too much trouble? Not really. Yamaha has made a free more »

Sprint is now selling the HTC Bluetooth Music Adapter for $59

htc music adapter

In case you want to wirelessly sync your music with your car stereo system, then you may want to check out HTC’s latest mobile accessory.  Dubbed the HTC Bluetooth Music Adapter, you simply plug in the device to the AUX port and connect your phone or other Bluetooth enabled device.  After successfully connecting the two more »

Sonos Desktop Controller for Mac won’t work with Mac OS X Lion

If you’re running the Sonos Desktop Controller on your Mac, chances are you received an email from Sonos claiming that their software won’t work correctly with Lion. Essentially, the software is not compatible with Lion just yet, and the Sonos team is currently working on an update to the Mac Controller to make it compatible. more »

Modern day mixtape merges RFID, Spotify and magnets

Here’s a neat concept that we’re hoping finds it way to production: a standalone player that comes with 8 RFID tags that can be linked to music. The idea is the little tags could be playlists and when affixed to the stand alone player would bring up that playlist. It’s a simple enough idea that more »

Samsung announces three new bluetooth headsets

As if telling us that it has other products aside from the Galaxy phone series, Samsung has just announced three new Bluetooth headsets – the HM1610, HM3600, and Samsung Modus 6450. The last one being the second headset other its Modus family of Bluetooth products. All three Bluetooth headsets boast of advanced multi-point technology, voice more »

Verizon is giving away free Jawbone ICON Bluetooth headsets on Black Friday

If you’re planning to get a new smartphone from Verizon on Black Friday, well you’re in luck. Verizon and Jawbone have teamed up to offer free Jawbone ICON “Hero” Bluetooth headset for free for as long as you get one of the selected Verizon smartphones. Said Bluetooth headset has a regular value of $99, so more »

HD HiFI music server blows away CDs, like Blu-ray for music

Today, Olive introduces some high-end audio gear that is said to have 250 times the resolution of a CD. The Olive 4HD Music Server not only holds up to 20,000 songs at HD quality, but will record at 24 bit. The unit is backed up by a host of accessible options that allow you to more »

Onkyo announces cutting edge receivers with 9.2 channel surround sound

Not satisfied with its recent launch of its Pandora, Sirius and Rhapsody capable AV receivers, Onkyo has announced yet more tuners. The new tuners, the TX-NR1007, TX-NR3007, TX-NR5007, each have the same Internet capabilities of the recently announced models, but include other top of the line features as well. The newest models include features that more »