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Monster absurdly sells repainted headphones for $700

Monster plans to rip off the citizens of the United States by pulling off this stunt. What these geniuses did was repaint the new Dr. Dre Beats Headphones, which go for only $350, with a white color and then give it a price tag of $699. The only difference between the white version and the [...]

Dr. Dre and Monster Cable present new headphones

Dr. Dre, the rap entrepreneur, has teamed up with Monster Cable and they have just released their own version of the in-ear headphones from the Beats Tour series. These new in-ear headphones are considered to be tangle-free due to the flat-cable design. In addition, the headphones have gold contacts, heavier low-end sound quality, and a [...]

Blu-spec CDs from Sony feature Blu-ray technology

Sony Music Entertainment hit a home run with their Blu-ray movies and Blu-ray players. Now they’ve used their Blu-ray technology to create Blu-spec CDs. Blu-spec CDs are suppose to give even higher sound quality then audio CDs. The best part of all is that Blu-spec CDs work with standard CD players so you won’t have [...]

Best Buy buying Napster for $121 million

Best Buy is set to purchase the once cool Napster brand for an astonishing $121 million. This includes about $67 million of cash and investments making the deal worth really about $54. With other music stores like iTunes, Zune Marketplace and Amazon already doing so well what could Best Buy be planning with Napster? With [...]

Apple confirms iPod music event on September 9

So what about the next generatation iPods? There have been rumors spreading around the tech blogs that a new iPod will be introduced during the third quarter of the fiscal year. The rumors first came about when Wolfson Microelectronics, the original audio chipmaker for the early generation iPods, announced to their shareholders that Apple has [...]

Fluid Digital’s media server to include Media Server TV Pack

Fluid Digital is making Microsoft’s TV Pack media server upgrade available to the public with their quad-tuner equipped servers. They feature ClearQAM capabilities found in the Media Server TV Pack and are said to produce amazing quality sound. They won’t be available at your local Best Buy or Circuit City and no pricing has been [...]

FiiO headphone amp

Headphones not loud enough, quality bad? Try a headphone amp from FiiO to help improve the sound quality out of your iPod, Sansa, Zune or other MP3 player. Reviews on the head-fi.org forums have been very positive so far. At the size of 2 AAA batteries and at only $8.95 shipped it won’t break the [...]

Standard USB vs Proprietary device cables

Every MP3 player whether it’s iPod, iPhone, Zune or Sansa comes with some sort of cable to charge and synch the device to your computer. All these various MP3 devices have their own cables which can be a pain in some cases. Why don’t they all just use one type of cable and make life [...]

Vinyl making a comeback?

Most iPod and Zune users weren’t even alive when vinyl was the only way to listen to your favorite record or song. Those who were remember how special vinyl really was, it may not have been hi-def but it had a distinctive sound that only vinyl had. With the popularity of vinyl on the rise [...]

Krell’s new Papa Dock for the iPod

High-end audio component maker Krell has just released their Papa Dock which works with their $1500 Kid Dock. The Kid Dock snaps into the Papa Dock and improves the already amazing output of the Kid Dock. The Papa Dock increases output to 150 watts, includes a huge power supply and features isolated stereo channels. At [...]