Sonos on Thursday launched its own paid radio service called Radio HD, which includes exclusive curated content such as Dolly Parton’s Songteller Radio. The service includes more than 45 genre and artist-curated stations in lossless FLAC (16-bit/44.1 kHz), and it is in addition to the existing free Sonos Radio. Radio HD launches initially in the US …
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Known for its excellent sounding, retro-designed, open-back wired headphones, Grado has long been a favorite among audiophiles, earning extra points for building many of its headphones by hand in Brooklyn, New York for over 60 years. But with the world moving to wireless audio, the company has slowly shifted into the Bluetooth headphone arena, first with its GW100 on-ear model (in 2018) and …
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The Dell Latitude 9510 is a rare business laptop that will be able to meet your work needs even if they change next week or a year from now. Maybe right now you’re working from home and you want a laptop with lots of connections, good audio for crystal-clear conference calls, a larger display and seamless background updates to your …
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The Asus ZenBook 13 is a classic coffeehouse laptop. Stylish, but not necessarily showy, the 13.3-inch ultraportable has the perfect footprint for squeezing onto a tiny table and still leaves room for your frappuccino. You’ll get 12-plus hours of battery life — depending on your configuration and what you’re doing, naturally — and plenty of performance to make quick work …
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Rolling into the holiday season, Epson has launched several new and updated home theater projectors that span from $600 to $1,000. New, inexpensive HD projectors that throw a ton of light are always welcome. Perhaps most interesting are some updates to projectors we’ve looked at before, notably the Home Cinema 2150 that we liked a lot. The prices have gone …
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The Acer Swift 3x isn’t all too different from the Swift 3 released earlier this year. At least on the outside. Inside, along with an Intel 11th-gen Core i7-1165G7 processor, is the chipmaker’s new Iris Xe Max discrete graphics. That’s a step up from the integrated graphics you’d typically find in a laptop like this. And if it performs as …
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There’s an inherent tension between sound quality and price, which is why we’re always jazzed to run into speakers and headphones that punch well above their weight. Portable Bluetooth speakers are a great example: Below a certain price, you tend to get mediocre sound quality pumped out of a housing with a cheap feel. That’s not true of the DOSS …
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It’s the rare TV that wouldn’t benefit from an audio upgrade, in part to get speakers that are actually pointed at you (rather than down) and in part to bring bass into the mix (courtesy of a subwoofer). Let’s not forget overall volume, either. Even a cheapie soundbar would improve your aural experience — though, as evidenced by today’s deal, …
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Lenovo has a new Chromebook designed for the sudden explosion of remote workers. The ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook is a 13.3-inch, full-HD resolution two-in-one. It starts at $579 (approximately £445 or AU$800 converted) and is built for Chrome Enterprise, a version of Google‘s operating system with increased features for manageability, security and scalability. Even if you don’t need all of …
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The Corsair Katar was one of the company’s least expensive and lightest gaming mice, but it was wired. The new Katar Pro keeps the price low and the weight down, and it’s wireless. At $40, it’s $10 to $20 less than Logitech’s popular G305 gaming mouse and at only 96 grams (3.4 ounces) the Katar Pro is 3 grams lighter …
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