Category: Home audio
The heaviest AV receiver ever made
It's not often that you hear technology companies actually bragging that they've produced the largest of something. That's just what Denon is doing, however. The company's AVC-A1XV (or The Behemoth, as it's been affectionately nick-named) is a 10.2 AV and…
Nice speakers from Eclipse
The Eclipse TD 712z speakers are rather interesting-looking, don't you think? To quote the press release: "With the superior impulse response of the ECLIPSE TD series, and its uncanny ability to connect coherent sound images and precisely reproduced spatial…
Home speakers for your iPod
Obviously, the whole point of iPods is that you can carry music with you when you're out and about. But after giving up valuable hours of your life to fill up the hard drive with your entire music collection, being…
KEF Audio's Q Compact AV System
KEF Audio's Q Compact AV System is a complete home cinema speaker package. Two pairs of QCompact speakers for front and rear, a Q6c Central Channel speaker, and a PSW2500 Sub-Woofer make up the £850 system. Details include: Qcompact Reference-Based…
KEF drops its prices
This is really just an excuse to get a nice picture of some red speakers on the site, but KEF has dropped the prices of its speaker ranges. This is apparently due to "a much increased manufacturing capability" which means…
Home Cinema goes wireless
Philips' Connected Planet range, originally shown back in January at CES, will be arriving in the UK next month. The products form a home entertainment system that can communicate wirelessly with your PC, allowing you to send content over from…
Meridian's adds to its G Series
Meridian Audio has released four analogue products as part of its G Series range. Two 2-Channel Power Amplifiers (the G56 and G57), one Multichannel Power Amplifier (G55) and a Stereo Control Unit with Tuner (G01) have been launched….
Indies join iTunes
It was a criticism of Apple iTunes when it launched over here. Yes great service, loads of mainstream tracks from the major record labels but where are the indies. While independents are a relatively small part of the market in…
Sony fails to Connect
After high profile, well-thought out launches from Napster and iTunes we'd expected Sony's music download service, Connect, to be equally as innovative. Sadly this isn't the case. And as The Guardian reports it appears that Connect for the UK is…
iTunes hits 100 million
In an indication of just how far ahead of the game the US is in terms of music downloading, iTunes has just announced its 100 millionth downloaded track. Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermous remix) by Zero 7…