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Range Rover Sport with Meridian Sound
As much fun as it was zooming around in the Jaguar F-Type—which appeared on the cover of our last issue and which is also equipped with a magnificent audio system from Meridian—the visceral experience...
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Tito’s Handmade Vodka
And just when y’all thought Austin, Texas was a place for music, it turns out they are getting equally famous for making vodka. Proprietor Tito Beveridge (yeah, that’s his real name) left a career in...
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Steidle Woodworking Record Crates
The ubiquitous milk crate serves many vinyl fans at some point during their lives. Any why not? It is inexpensive, sturdy, and offers an eerily ideal size to accommodate a record collection. It’s hard...
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iPad Air
Yes you need another iPad. Now dubbed the iPad Air, Apple claims their new baby is “leaner and definitely meaner.” Marketing hyperbole aside, it is 28% lighter, weighing in at a mere one pound....
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Samsung Galaxy Watch
If you’ve got one of the latest Samsung Galaxy phones, you have to get the companion watch. While some may view this as over the top nerdiness, and others the first step to wearing Borg implants, the...
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Power Squid
While not necessarily an audiophile product, we’ve had great luck with wire products from Home Depot in the past. The Power Squid is another product worth considering for the audiophile on a budget....
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Success is the Essence of New York
If you aren’t successful yet, you can at least smell like it, with the latest from Bond No.9 of New York. Reacting differently on men and women, this scent is equally enticing with both sexes. And...
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Jaguar F-TYPE Featuring Meridian High-Performance Audio
The new F-TYPE is a seductive, capable addition to the Jaguar fleet. It delivers the raw, sensuous beauty of the E-Type from the 1960s and ’70s—considered by many, even the great Enzo Ferrari, to be...
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Canon EOS M Camera
We’ve been using Canon’s compact G-series digital cameras in succession since the G9, each one making incremental gains in performance over the last, both in terms of image capture and image...
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Nerf N-Strike Elite Retaliator Blaster
Who wouldn’t want one of these? Whether attacking your kids, co-workers or spouse, this is the perfect way to take out your anger in a way that nobody gets hurt. Just keep this thing away from your...
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Sennheiser HH10 Headphone Holder
The saying goes, “you can’t have everything, because where would you put it?” The compact Sennheiser HH10 Headphone Holders go a long way at alleviating that problem. Clamping on to a wall or shelf...
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Maxboost Atomic Air External Battery and Case for iPhone 5
First the good news: the Maxboost significantly outperforms its published spec of doubling the battery life of an iPhone 5, it almost triples it. And the integral hard case barely adds any weight or...
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New USB cables from Wireworld…
Wireworld Cable Technology, one of the world’s most respected manufacturers of high performance audio and video cables, is releasing their Series 7 reference USB Audio cables, Platinum Starlight® 7...
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Scooba Design Cable Stable Rollup Kit
Always losing USB cables, in-ear phones and those new small chargers that come with the iPod and iPhone? The Scooba Design Cable Stable Rollup Kit barely takes up any space in your purse, briefcase or...
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MartinLogan Expands Their Motion Speaker Series
MartinLogan, the world’s leader in electrostatic & Folded Motion™ loudspeaker technology, proudly announces the addition of three new powerful speaker models in their award-winning Motion® Series;...
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Conrad-Johnson MF2550 SE Amplifier
The generally accepted wisdom is that tube amps display a warm sound while solid-state amps offer more punch and control. But those lines are blurring, with great designs in both camps that defy past...
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dCS Vivaldi Digital Playback System
Spending four days with the Aston Martin DBS a few years ago was an enthralling experience to say the least—and beyond definition to say the most—but a brief time in the company of something outside of...
View ArticleAztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain
Among guilty pleasure albums from the 1980s, Aztec Camera’s debut High Land, Hard Rain maintains a surprisingly regular appearance on my turntable. Over the years, my copy of the 1983 LP from Sire...
View ArticleKiss – Alive!
One of the things I’ve always admired about Gene Simmons is that he’s straightforward about being in the game for the money. Our pal Chad Kassem at Quality Record Pressings/Acoustic Sounds isn’t always...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen – The Future
Leonard Cohen’s The Future first hit my audio radar as a result of the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. “Waiting for the Miracle” first captured my attention, but it didn’t take long for the rest of...
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