portable mp3 players

Six months after starting this blog back in 2005 I purchased what at the time was a cutting edge MP3 player, called an iRiver. It was a 20GB HDD MP3 player, a principal competitor to the dominant iPod. iRiver MP3 Player I didn’t get an iPod because I wasn’t a mac user yet. ...

gramophone-phone.jpg I couldn't help but notice that in the history of recorded sound, we seem to have come full circle. About 100 years ago, there was the gramophone, which was revolutionary in that it could reproduce sound, but which wasn't fully convincing in terms of sound quality. Thanks to advances ...

gramophone-phone.jpg I couldn't help but notice that in the history of recorded sound, we seem to have come full circle. About 100 years ago, there was the gramophone, which was revolutionary in that it could reproduce sound, but which wasn't fully convincing in terms of sound quality. Thanks to advances ...

thumbnail You Don’t Really Care About Kandinsky Anyway Egon Schiele? Edvard Munch? Marc Chagall? Whatever. They didn’t even OWN iPods. How are you going to trust de Kooning to understand what your MP3s should sound like? The answer is simple: you can’t. Plug your laptop into Arthur Dove and all you’ll ...

It’s All In (Or Behind) Your Head Some say perception is reality. Like, if something sounds loud, it must “be” loud, right? That’s the existential question posed by these Able Planet Clear Harmony Behind-The-Head Headphones. Their proprietary LINX AUDIO system, the story goes, increases the perception ...