Category: Home audio
KEF intros KHT2005.3 third generation 2000 series 5.1 speaker system
KEF has announced its latest speaker system, the third generation Home Theatre 2000 Series 5.1 system to be precise. The KHT2005.3 features four satellite speakers, a centre channel speaker, and new KUBE-2 subwoofer…
PS 3 Custom Edition audio cabinets – not a PlayStation
It took me a few minutes of looking for where the PlayStation is housed before I clued up that these custom edition acoustic cabinets have nothing to do with games consoles…
The $1.1million home cinema
I’m not sure this is quite the home cinema I’d come up with for the $1.1million that Ivan Messer spent on his DIY set-up…
PrimaLuna launches ProLogue Eight valve-based CD player
PrimaLuna has announced its new CD player, claiming a world first by incorporating a valve-based data clocking device — the Super Tube Clock. This dramatically reduces jitter and creates a uniquely clear, spacious, dynamic sound, as you’d only get from a valve-based amplifier.
State-of-the-art components include Burr-Brown upsampling circuitry and digital-to-analogue converters, ensuring the best quality signal is passed to the valves…
YouTube Hits: The ChroniCaster electric guitar bong
If the last video was a little too cerebral for you, then may I recommend a lesson from former High Times editor Mike Edison – you’d never guess, would you – as he demonstrates the genius piece of dubious audio-tech modding known as the ChroniCaster. Take it away Mike…
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LG blushes with Scarlet goodies, rolls out the HT953TVP home cinema system
Looking very similar to the Design Art set-up shown off at IFA last year, LG has added to the Scarlet range of TVs announced at CES in January, with the Scarlet HT953TVP.
Little is known about the home theatre set-up, apart from it containing 5.1 channels to play around with, and it offering Virtual Sound Matrix for simulating a 10.1 audio experience…
B&W collaborates with ex-Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel for Music Club community
A hardware company launching a music store? Who do they think they are – Apple?
Not Bowers & Wilkins (or B&W as you probably know them), as the high-ish-end audio company has announced their collaboration with Peter Gabriel for the launch of their B&W Music Club, a community offering music fans a DRM-free, lossless album once a month, in exchange for £23.95 for six months of your support, or £33.95 for a year’s membership. That works out to less than three quid an album!…
Orange Liveradio: WiFi internet radio as Orange go audio
Armed with their weight of mobile customers, Orange have heralded their arrival in the internet radio market by introducing a WiFi radio device…
Pro-Ject's minimalist Genie 2 vinyl turntable
Pro-Ject is known for producing record decks with high-end looks and low-end prices – and the Genie 2 is no exception…
Vita Audio adds CD and iPod playback to their DAB radio – hey presto, it's the R4!
Flying through the airwaves and into Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis and a few select other department stores, the R4 music system from Vita Audio combines an iPod dock, USB playback facility, DAB/FM tuner and aux inputs with, yep, a slot-loading CD drive, offering customers a stylish audio player for under £500.
Furnished in either a real wood veneer or piano lacquer (shown), it outputs 80 watts, has an integrated active subwoofer and their trademark RotoDial for easy iPod control, whether that be on the device, or detached…
