To a chorus of smug 'I-told-you-sos' from the technology media fraternity, Google has suspended development of its modular phone initiative, Project Ara. The research was supposed to produce a smartphone which could be taken apart, rebuilt, upgraded and have different components added or replaced easily by the user, making the annual upgrade cycle as we know it obsolete. Project Ara began life inside the Advanced Technology and Projects team of … [Read more...]
B&W Adds To Wireless Lineup With New P7 Headphones
Bowers & Wilkins, a British loudspeaker company famed for creating the world’s best loudspeakers, today announces the new P7 Wireless headphones. Delivering professional quality sound on the move with the added convenience of simple wireless streaming, P7 Wireless set a new standard for on-the-go listening. P7 Wireless builds on the dual success of the original P7 and the award-winning P5 Wireless. Thanks to the acoustic advances made with … [Read more...]
Talking Heads Drummer Relives the Early Days of CBGBs and the Rise of Punk Rock
It was the summer of ’75, when a garbage strike left tons of stinking trash piled high on flat-broke Gotham’s sweltering streets. Five-dollar hookers and fur-coat-clad pimps strutted around the Lower East Side, and junkies turned abandoned slums into squalid shooting galleries. But amid that dystopian nightmare sat a grungy dive on the Bowery called CBGB that was home to bikers, neighborhood drunks and the seeds of a musical revolution that … [Read more...]
Yamaha Introduces R-N402 Receiver, Heavy on Wireless and Hi-Res
Buena Park, CA, August 30, 2016 -- Yamaha today introduced the R-N402 MusicCast enabled Hi-Fi network receiver that combines the simplicity of wireless connectivity with the sophistication of MusicCast multiroom streaming and high-resolution audio. The elegantly styled receiver brings together the legendary Yamaha craftsmanship that has led the Hi-Fi movement for more than a half-century with the freedom of multiroom music streaming from … [Read more...]
Jethro Tull’s Stand Up Gets The Hi-Res Steve Wilson Treatment
Jethro Tull‘s second album, 1969’s Stand Up will be reissued in November as a three-disc set, featuring new Steven Wilson mixes and a wealth of bonus material. Dubbed ‘The Elevated Edition’, this new version of the album comes in the same book-style packaging as other Tull reissues of late and a very cute touch is the fact that they’ve included the ‘pop-up’ element which came with the original vinyl. (see image above). This is a 2CD+DVD set … [Read more...]
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