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Third Time's The Charm?
The tireless guys at LH Labs are about to do it again--crowdfunding their latest portable product the Geek Wave. The Wave acts as an add-on to your smartphone providing extended battery life with its internal charger, music storage and more.
Q&A with Thorsten Loesch of AMR/iFi
Most readers are familiar with iFi Audio whose affordable products include DACs, portable headphone amps, a USB power supply, Tube Buffer/Pre-Amplifier, and more.
Download of the Week: Miles Davis
Jack Johnson was the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion, a title he held from 1908-1915. Seeing as this coincided with the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson's success, and his public enjoyment of same, was not universally lauded to put it too politely.
Bluesound NODE
The Bluesound Node is a network player--Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth in, out comes your choice of digital (Toslink) or analog (RCAs) music. The Node supports MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, WMA-L, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF in resolutions up to 24/192 and more.
Checking in with Pono
As you can see, the Pono Kickstarter campaign is in full swing, raising over $5M at its half way mark from over 15,000 backers. Not bad for a device whose sole purpose is to deliver high quality digital music.
Fujitsu Ten Eclipse TD-M1 Wireless Speaker System
The Fujitsu Ten Eclipse TD-M1 Wireless Speaker System houses a single 8cm (3") driver in each speaker powered by a 20W digital amp. There's also a 24/192 capable DAC, which Eclipse refers to as a Non-Oversampling DAC, as well as 2 asynchronous USB inputs, one Type A and one Type B, a 3.5mm mini analog stereo input, Wi-Fi and AirPlay connectivity.
Are Measurements Subjective?
If you frequent some of the hi-fi forums, you may have noticed a dust up over some measurements. No, not the endles Objective versus Subjective debate over the idea of measurements, rather there's some controversy surrounding some measurements generated by LH Labs, makers of the Geek Out DAC, comparing their DAC to a number of competitors.
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