Category: Sound

Sonos is well-known manufacturer of sound related devices. The new release by this company is Playbar, a bar consisting nine high-quality speakers including six mid-woofers and three tweeters, for wireless sound solution for home theaters. This sleek bar not only is a perfect alternative of ordinary speakers but also incredibly smart in design. The Playbar is fully configurable with Play:3 and 5.1 surround speakers.

Bowers & Wilkins has come up with their new outdoor speaker. The AM-1 has 1-inch drivers along with 5-inch glassfiber bass/mid-range driver. This speaker is designed to withstand rain, dust and wind. As we can see the design, it can be mounted on walls.

American Society Braven is fully devoted to the production of portable wireless speakers. Its products combine pleasant minimalist design with a surprisingly good sound. The new model BRV-1, although in terms of appearance it’s compromising, but in favor of resistance against the elements of nature. According to the manufacturer it easily withstands rain and dust. Converters are hidden behind the front metal grid and specially adapted against water damage. Side and back are protected by a thick layer of rubber connectors on the back of the special cap. Behind them lies 3.5 mm audio input, Micro-USB port (with an adapter to USB) and the battery status indicator. But the speaker is built primarily for connection via Bluetooth. It can be used with any device that uses headphones. The powers comes from 1400mAH built-in battery which can last up to 12 hours of continues wireless play.

An interesting option is to connect the two devices by Braven cable and use them as a stereo setup. As compare to its nearest competitor Jawbone Jambox, surprisingly it’s not too expensive.

PIAB by SoulElectronics is an all-in-one multimedia speaker. It has all that you’d expect from a good wireless speaker, that why it’s titled as “Party in a box”. It is loaded with 8 speakers – Side firing dual 6.5” subwoofers, 3” midrange speakers and 1” tweeters Front firing dual 1.5” midrange drivers. Apart from Bluetooth connectivity users can place their iPhones/iPod or iPad at the dock to play sound directly. Other options include FM Radio, analog VU meter , karaoke & PA capability, Equalizer, headphone port, USB, HDMO and a mic for recording. (more…)

iXY Microphones by Røde is the world’s first 24/96k HD audio recorder for iDevices. No matter where you are and what noises you want to eliminate in recordings. Just hook it up on iPhone or iPad and forget about distortions. It records exactly the same as you hear but in stereo mode. iXY works best for recording music at concerts, audio/acoustic in surroundings, scrutiny purposes or even for eavesdropping as well. A microphone can be as useful as recording low voice interviews or class lectures where you continuously hear indistinct voices otherwise it can be as powerful tool as a HD recording solution if HD cam’s Mic goes down. Listen to some of the audio samples recorded by iXY Mic. (more…)

JBL Charge is a portable wireless speaker and a power house for phones and tablets. This unit packs an inbuilt 6000mAh Li-ion rechargeable battery to juice-up gadgets. Its high-capacity battery lasts more than 12 hours straight on playbacks when it’s fully charged. You may use 2 x 5-watt portable speakers as swanky audio system via Bluetooth otherwise. The component has a built-in bass port for exceptional bass experience—enough to hit a party. (more…)

Sound Cylinder wireless portable speaker by Definitive Technology is a portable sound system for tablets and laptops. The sound system securely clamps to most of tablets and laptops, connects through Bluetooth connectivity. The tube contains side-firing 43mm woofer driver for bass, two 32mm mid-range drivers on front and gets 10 hours of battery life straight. Get yourself a true bass and high clarity music instrument for remote listening and viewing on different angles. (more…)

This wireless OD-11 Cloud Speaker throws deeply refined sound through built-in 100W amplifier, a single woofer and a simple tweeter. The box turns the music on via Bluetooth 4.0 tech and gets a magnet on its back for easy placement on any place you find it better for.