When Apple Inc.’s HomePod smart speaker went on sale in January, it entered a market pioneered and dominated by Amazon’s Echo lineup of Alexa-powered devices. Apple has been touting the HomePod’s superior sound quality but so far hasn’t enticed many… Read More ›
The latest creation from Kostas Metaxas is another daring piece of design. The Phonographic Perambulator Turntable is machined from a solid block of aircraft grade aluminum and titanium and features a lathe-turned aluminum platter base… More at uncrate. Sort of… Read More ›
Streaming music is taking over the recording industry, and there’s no clearer sign of it than this: digital download sales have fallen so much in the past few years that they’re now smaller than sales of CDs, vinyl, and other… Read More ›
Since 2014, I was paid $570.12 for about 200k total plays and/or downloads of “Never Be Famous.” That’s… 141,648 plays on YouTube 47,200 streams on Spotify The rest are from iTunes, Google Play, and few other digital retailers. Here’s the… Read More ›
Luciano is a Bluetooth speaker designed by Paolo Cappello for NEWBLACK®. Ceramics and electronics, two contrasting elements, come together in a work of art that is the expression of purity of sound, subtlety of form, and the excellence of Italian… Read More ›
Great piece on tech nostalgia, a guy powers up his original 2002 iPod, old songs and playlists intact. Only the final third is about the hardware itself, as classic and still functional (modulo the battery life) as it is; the… Read More ›
Some argue it’s well-priced for being such an extraordinary speaker! But…yeah, the lock-in. I’m not much of an audiophile, and never got into streaming, so a high-end bluetooth speaker for my iPhone seems a bit pointless. Kirk I agree with Kirk… Read More ›
The HomePod arrived today, required for a freelance piece, and I have had 30 minutes to play with it so far. Very quick first impressions are that it- is bigger than I expected, but not too big is very heavy… Read More ›
Many people try to play sheet music on the piano, but what about trying to play a drawing on the piano? The idea seems bizarre at first, but it’s central to a movement that began in the 1950s, where composers… Read More ›
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