Portable Audio

French accessories company HOON has teamed up with audio company The Perfect Unison for a line of python skin skinned headphones. The cans are made of nine layers of birch wood, lined with goat skin, and finally covered in the skin of a mighty snake for the ultimate, luxurious audiophile experience. The ear pieces are [...]

Years ago when I was first using Napster on a then blazing-fast dual-channel ISDN connection, WinAmp was my media player of choice. It’s come a long way since the early days, and gone from being used by those in the know to the go-to player of more than 84 million people worldwide.
When I finally updated [...]

Here’s what you get when a manufacturer tries to justify a $199 price tag on its newest headsets. The Jabra Go 6400 (pictured above) and Pro 9400 look to be standard noise-cancelling Bluetooth and DECT headsets, respectively, with a multifunction button to answer/reject/redial/mute calls and adjust the volume. However, these headsets are paired with an [...]

Wax MP3 is a web based music player for that plays songs from Magnatune’s catalog of Creative Commons-licensed tracks from independent musicians.
When you launch the website, you’re greeted with a basic music player that gives you information about the song that’s currently playing, download links, and the ability to skip to the next track. [...]

If you want to get an idea of just how fast technology moves, a brilliant piece from the BBC should help light the way. The setup is simple enough: 13-year-old Scott Campbell is given a Walkman and told by his dad that it was “the iPod of his day” — and that’s when the fun [...]

Songbird, the open-source, Mozilla-based music player, has a bunch of new features in version 1.2 that make it worth taking a look at. The most important addition is 2-way iTunes syncing, so you can import and export songs and playlists back and forth between Songbird and iTunes. If you thought the whole point of Songbird [...]

Without a doubt, Sonos makes an excellent wireless distributed audio system. If we had to nit pick (and we do), then its massive controller, the CR100 is easily the first thing to complain about. For starters it’s a $400 remote control that does one thing, it controls your Sonos audio system. Granted, the CR100 is [...]

I’m a big fan of the streaming music site Grooveshark. It’s a great way to listen to practically any song and share new music with friends. EMI doesn’t have any love for Grooveshark, though: the label is suing the service. It’s not clear what the claims in the suit are, yet, but Grooveshark’s side of [...]

We know you haven’t slept in the week since we first got wind of Sony’s MDR-NC300D heaphones and while, sadly, there is (as of yet) still no domestic street date, we do have some more details and a fun little video to tide you over. Billed as the “world’s first” digital noise canceling canal earphones [...]

Just in case a new iPhone model and OS 3.0 weren’t enough goodies for this week, Sirius XM support team members are sending emails out announcing the company’s long-awaited iPhone / iPod touch app will finally seeing the light of day and will launch this Thursday, June 18th. We just got off the phone with [...]