Right out of the box, you have everything you’d expect to get with a pair of earbuds that cost over $100. You get the earbuds, a circular carrying case and three pairs of earbud tips. The tips differ in size, so you should have no trouble getting these earbuds to rest firmly in your ears.

Creative Labs has always been known for it’s PC sound cards. Until now the trouble has been that they could only exist inside the machine due to power constraints. Now Creative is able to bring that sound card outside the machine and power it by USB with the Sound Blaster Recon 3D. The Sound Blaster more »

Many of us carry around easily pocketable personal music devices that carry upwards of tens of thousands of songs. Even the smaller devices can hold a few hundred songs. You no longer have to worry about variety with these kind of numbers. Now, what if I told you that someday these very same devices will more »

Vinyl records have begun to make a slight resurgence, or at least enough of one to warrant a little shelf space in Best Buy. It turns out that while CD sales have dropped about 20-percent in the last few years, vinyl sales have only increased. According to the numbers, vinyl record sales increased 15-percent in more »

In case you missed it, SpiralFrog, an ad-supported music site, shut down. It had been up and running since September 2007, offering DRMed music for free to its customers. The music wouldn’t work on Mac OS X, iPods, or Zunes which would explain why it wasn’t all that popular. The website shutting down proves to more »

The current sound formats have been around for quite a while. It seems we’ve been dealing in MP3 and AAC forever. Neither are perfect when it comes to representing the original sound recording, though most consumers tend not to worry too much about that. A new generation is here, though, bringing in the next generation more »

Banking on hopes that many consumers will use the now delayed digital transition as an opportunity to make the jump to HDTVs, Klipsch hopes to offer audio accompaniment at reasonable prices.

The only problem with Klipsch’s plan is that, of the three home audio systems it announced today, only one is south of the $500 mark. It is also interesting to note, that while Klipsch is seeking the the DTV set, they only expect their more modestly priced audio systems, the HD Theater 500 for $599.99 and the HD Theater 300 for $399.99, to be available for sale in March for the former and April for the latter.

There are some companies in the world that aim purely at the upper end of the pay scale. Denon has just released their new DVD-A1UD which costs a staggering $5,879, a price that us debt ridden unemployed mortals can only gape at.

So what does it actually do? Well, it can play Blu-ray discs, SACDs, CDs, DVD-Audio, and DVD-Video. This is Denon’s first Profile 2.0 Ready (BD Live) Blu-ray DVD player and it supports the HDMI 1.3 spec. It can also upscale non-HD sources and can convert signals so that they properly fit 16:9 screens without black bars or distortion. And lets face it, if you can spend this much you definitely have a widescreen TV.

YouTube has always been the scourge of those of us who like to watch really good looking video. Not just the quality of the content, but the actual video quality. It first started out with high quality videos that were a pretty big step up from the normal quality. Now, the site is taking the quality up in two ways. First with video and also with sound.

Possibly the biggest improvement to those who care most about the poor video quality is the availability of HD video. To be more precise, 720p HD video. It might not look much different than the high quality in the standard YouTube video screen, but put it in fullscreen and there is a definite improvement. It looks just about as good as the 720p trailers from Apple.

Find out how YouTube has improved its sound quality after the break.

And with SanDisk, the hits just keep on coming. They have the 1GB, the 2GB, the 4GB Sansa Clips, and now the 8GB flash-based player. It may be teeny-tiny in size, but it certainly isn’t in the capacity of songs this baby can hold. Try up to 4,000 on it’s rechargeable battery which will run for 15 hours. Not bad, eh?

The player obviously gets its name from the clip it sports on the back. It lets users attach it to their clothing, backbacks, etc., which is great for when you are on the go. However, if you want to detach the clip, you have that option as well. Another nice thing about the Sansa Clip is that is has an OLED color screen, which lets you pick which songs you want to listen to; you don’t have to listen at random. More after the break.