Category: Home Audio
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Google Home Adds Bluetooth Support
Google Home has been having a few niggles of late, our one here has anyway. Until recently the only way you could share music was through casting. This was great, but not when it would randomly stop while playing then refuse to be seen by anything on the network thus prompting a reboot. The team […]
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Beolab 90 – More Bang For Your Buck
The materials and processes used to create dynamically accurate speakers are not cheap, meaning that the better the sound quality is the larger in price the leap. It’s not always the case of the price determining how good the product is, but with Bang and Olufsen it seems that you are buying top of the range […]
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Amazon Echo Now for Sale in UK with £50 Off for Prime Members
Amazon’s own voice-enabled, cloud-connected speaker named Amazon Echo is now available to buy in the UK. For £149.99 Amazon Echo stands proud at nine inches tall and comes with the online retailer/gadget developer’s own answer to Siri – a voice activated software called Alexa. As well as playing your music tracks from Prime Music as […]
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Google I/O 2016: Google Home – Smarter Than Your Average Speaker
As you’ve probably seen, a lot of big announcements have come from this year’s Google I/O, another of one of them being the Google Home – a smart speaker that has incorporated Google’s rather amazing voice recognition software with a system to help you with virtually everything. And all you have to do is say […]
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Chromecast 2 and Chromecast Audio Announced
This Tuesday Google announced two new versions of Chromecast. The internet giant’s CEO, Sundar Pichai claimed on stage yesterday, that one will be for streaming videos and photos to your tv and the other for streaming music to any audio system or standard speakers. The new generation of Chromecast has undergone a transformation and now […]
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Bernard Arnault’s Passion Project – Revolutionizing Home Audio
His name may not be on the tip of everybody’s tongue but Bernard Arnault, whilst running the most successful luxury conglomerate in the world (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) is also an avid music lover. He is the richest man in France worth almost $40 billion and has recently become the lead investor in a super-luxury […]
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WWDC: Drake Talks Apple Music Connect
Artists are now apparently becoming affiliated with music streaming, ever since a plethora of artists hopped on board with Jay-Z’s Tidal music service. Apple’s new Music Connect may not have attracted as many celebrities as Tidal for its launch recently at WWDC, but it did manage to get hold of one of the biggest, rap […]
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Norway To Shut Off FM Radio By 2017
Norway are to become the first country to shut down FM radio. The technology is apparently just too outdated for Norway to stand anymore, and therefore by 2017 the country will be fully FM free, instead using Digital Audio broadcast, or DAB radio as their default broadcasting method. The Norwegian Ministry Of Culture decided that […]
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Big Vinyl Sales Prompt New UK Vinyl Chart
Vinyls. Those big freaky bumpy discs without any shiny rainbows on them. They’re strange, they’re somewhat odd… and yet, also, very interesting to watch as they spin around on the turntable and play crackly but crisp music. A lot of people probably agree, as vinyl discs are still in production, and indeed in the UK a […]
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Currys offering 10% Off Bose Audio, £80 off Canon EOS 6D and £300 off the Canon 5D MK III
With the run-up to Christmas nearly running out, Money is getting tight for everyone, but we are here to try and alleviate the your money woe’s with a little help from Curry;s PC World. The good folks at Curry’s have given us a few extra special Voucher codes that can see you get some discount […]
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YouTube Send Invites for Streaming Service – Music Key
You Tube are launching a new music streaming service to rival Spotify. Known as Music Key, the invites for the beta version of the Android app are already being rolled out to a selected few. Also See: How to Check for Offers on Chromecast If you are lucky enough to have been selected, you will […]
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Apple Rumoured to Unite Beats Music with iTunes
With sales of music downloads on the decline, partly due to the rise in success of streaming services like Spotify, Apple is reportedly scheduling to unite Beats Music with iTunes in a hope to hinder the demise of Apple. One of the suspected reasons for Apples interest in the company was for their music streaming […]