Skullcandy Navigator
An additional bonus is a distinct lack of stylistic vulgarity – even a full-on Fogey could wear these in public and not look like an arse, which is more than can be said for most headphones.
An additional bonus is a distinct lack of stylistic vulgarity – even a full-on Fogey could wear these in public and not look like an arse, which is more than can be said for most headphones.
Gear4, peddlers of clock docks, wireless speaker docks and Angry Birds iPod/iPhone novelty speaker docks, is shuffling into the land of nod.
The Velcro-shoe brigade will tell you that valve-based, analogue audio systems sound better than their digital counterparts. They certainly sound different.
Until decent sound cards arrived in PCs and Macs, there was no point having quality speakers because they’d only amplify the awfulness.
The tricksy bit is a fitting kit that sits on your bonce like a pair of headphones and squirts silicone goo – not into your ear canal itself, but into a membrane that has been shoved inside your lug-holes.
These lovely cans, which will have Bose and B&W all a-quiver, will be available later in the year for God knows how much. TF is guessing ‘quite a lot’.
Speaker docks for iPhone, iPod and even iPad can liberate your tunes and annoy the neighbours. Just make sure your music files are recorded at a high enough quality to make these units really sing.
Pure wants you to spend nearly £200 on an additional radio for your car. It is a digital radio. Could you care less?
There are so many styles of headphone and so many price-points buying the right pair could induce a migraine. Unless you read this.
The five best pairs of serious ‘cans’ – the like of which are worn by recording studio knob-twiddlers who sit, sagely behind mixing desks the size of an aircraft carrier. They are also cherished by audiophiles – older men with no friends who still live with their mums and listen to music with a devotion that verges on religious.
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