Category: Home audio
Deezer partners with Three to offer free 6 month subscription, embeds service on Android devices
Music streaming service Deezer has announced a partnership with Three to give its mobile customers more on-demand music with unlimited access to Deezer Premium+. Available to new and existing Three customers on Pay Monthly, Pay As You Go contracts and SIM-Only deals, customers will receive a free subscription to Deezer Premium+ for six months. Subscribers will…
Design of the day: Bang and Olufsen £54,000 BeoLab 90 speakers
To celebrate its 90th Birthday, high-end home audio and home cinema company, Bang & Olufsen, has announced the launch of this stunning looking BeoLab 90 loudspeaker. Set to take sound quality to new levels with a price tag to match, the innovative speaker combines, so the manufacturer claims, world-class design with acoustics. It aims to be…
Aurabox launches Bluetooth speaker with LED light and smart light bulb, Aurabulb
Two new products from Divoom (no I've never heard of them either, but these products looks interesting). First off is the AuraBox, a Bluetooth speaker with added light functionalities (pictured above). It's available from Amazon priced at £69.99. Featuring an integrated LED light board, the AuraBox can be used to create fun light themes alongside listening…
Design of the day: KEF MUO wireless speakers
New from KEF are these colourful wireless Bluetooth speakers. Called MUO, they combine a nice industrial design with, the manufacturer claims, precision engineering and class-leading sound performance. The MUO, which cost £299, have been created by KEF in collaboration with award-winning designer Ross Lovegrove, who previously designed the Muon loudspeakers – a high-end luxury product costing £140,000…
#IFA15 Iron Maiden and Onkyo reveal Ed-Ph0n3s
Proving it's not just rappers who have their names associated with headphones, metal legends Iron Maiden have banged their 'eds together with the guys at Japanese company Onkyo to bring you their latest collab with the password friendly name of Ed-Ph0n3s. Earlier this year a visual mock-up of the headphones was displayed on Maiden’s iconic…
Design of the day: KEF Egg speakers
These look quite cool. They are the latest KEF Bluetooth design and they are called - appropriately enough - EGG speakers. Designed as a complete plug and play speaker package - with built-in amplification and DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter) - the speakers are compatible with high resolution music thanks to a 96kHz/24-bit USB input. With their compact,…
Design of the day: Roy Harpaz toc ‘vertical record player’
Yesterday we looked at a beautiful state of the art computer keyboard on Kickstarter made out of Maple. Today's design comes courtesy of Design Boom and is a vertical record player called toc. Created by industrial designer Roy Harpaz, this walnut-based design features a linear tracking system to capture the good old analogue sound and…
Smart light bulb LightFreq updated. Available on Indiegogo June 23
LightFreq Square2’s wake up mode can wake you up to light, sound or both As long as you have your phone in your pocket, LightFreq Square2 will turn on and off automatically when you enter or leave a room. Starts playing music in the room you are in, and as soon as you enter a…
Denon’s HEOS HomeCinema sound bar helps to boost TV sound
* Amplifies TV sound and works as a HEOS speaker * Wireless subwoofer included * Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and DTS * USB input for mass storage Want to boost your flat screen TV's sound? Then investing in a soundbar is a pretty good idea. New from Denon is a wireless soundbar and subwoofer system called…
Monster introduces floating speaker – perfect for swimming pool parties
At first I thought they must be pulling my leg. But it seems that a floating speaker is actually a thing. Well it is now. Called the SuperStar BackFloat, this high-performance floatable – and portable – speaker is of course waterproof and is available with a black finish embellished with a choice of neon blue or…
