Introduction There’s nothing more satisfying than having your favorite music available to you throughout your house. Such seemingly complex, multi-room audio setups are often features of high-end homes. Yet, how cool would it be to have the audio from your main system playing in other rooms and speakers in your home? With a simple device called a speaker selector, you too can distribute audio to free standing, in-wall, or in-ceiling speakers across your home. What is a speaker selector? A speaker selector is a device that splits the audio signal coming from your receiver or amplifier and sends that same...
I can’t fault these headphones. As with all headphones, things like styling and fit are a personal thing, but the build quality, comfort and sound quality are unsurpassed for a DJ design. The sound has subtleties that you simply don’t get with cheaper headphones (and that means basically all other DJ headphones)! So these are really for use way beyond the DJ booth. If you’re considering one pair of headphones for production, DJing, and general use, and can’t afford to drop any balls as far as sound quality goes in any of these areas, the Ultrasone Signature DJs should be...
In 2015, LP and EP sales rose to their highest level since 1988 The sale of vinyl albums in the U.S. brought in more money than the recording industry made from advertising on the free tier of services like YouTube and Spotify last year, according to the RIAA. Vinyl LP/EP sales rose 32% in 2015 to $416 million, their highest level since 1988, the U.S. record industry group said. That’s still a fraction of overall industry revenues, which edged higher by 0.9% over 2014 to an estimated $7 billion. But it’s more than the revenue generated from on-demand, ad-supported streaming,...
At the top of Yamaha’s new PRO line of headphones, the $399.95 (direct) Yamaha PRO 500 is a formidable beast. At first glance, it may appear to take its cues from the Beats school of design, with a focus on glossy plastic and logos. But the PRO 500 is no knock-off, and it sounds flat-out excellent. Armed with a nice array of accessories and a detachable cable that helps extend its value, the PRO 500 is, nonetheless, not a bargain. It’s a luxury and an investment—but its rich bass and wide stereo field earn it our Editors’ Choice award for high-end...
For our 30th anniversary we wanted to achieve new heights of greatness…so we did just that. Meet the worlds first ever intelligent subwoofer and amplifier combination, SPG Z6-30. The SPG Z6-30’s main feature is our brand new Accelerated Force Mechanism technology, or AFM for short. Instead of a single voice coil driving the moving parts of the woofer, we’re driving the moving parts of the woofer with 26 radially distributed intelligent electro magnets. Using similar technology to modern Gauss cannons (which is essentially a Stupid Potato Gun), we were able to create the most powerful yet sonically accurate subwoofer in...
