This was an incredibly exciting week for audio tech, with IFA 2016 held last weekend and Apple's Special Event just yesterday where the iPhone 7 was launched. I was itching to send out a couple of articles out but I decided to refrain. I was in Krabi, Thailand (yet again) for the past week but with two babies in tow this time round....
1 Sep - While IFA 2016 gets into gear over in Berlin, Bang & Olufsen simultaneously announced the launch of the BeoSound 1 and BeoSound 2 speaker systems today at Space Furniture Asia Hub in Singapore. In a nutshell: BeoSound 1 - Portable wireless speaker system BeoSound 2 - More powerful wired speaker Let's look at the former, which is the more mobile...
25 Aug - The second biggest tech show after CES, IFA 2016 will be held from 2 to 7 Sep in Berlin. To kickstart the slate of launches prior to the event proper, RHA throws its hat into the ring with 3 new "specialist" products - 2 earphones and 1 amplifier. What's So Special? Five year old British-based RHA has traditionally been developing products...
We took a first look at the Samsung Gear IconX, termed as 'cord-free fitness earbuds', a few weeks back. After getting our hands on a unit, we gleefully put up some first shots of what there was in the box. Now, after a short trip to Krabi (with some testing), we look at these in totality by checking out the truly wireless earbud's...
Sennheiser has had a pretty quiet 2016 in the portable audio space. It was, of course, very timely that they chose to launch the Sennheiser PXC 550 Wireless last month. For some background, the 'PXC' range of Sennheiser products are consumer-centric noise canceling headphones that have been around since 2002. We take a first glimpse at what this offers. Who's It For? Those who...
