Gadgets & Electronics: sound

Where’sthe fun in awkwardly twanging out the opening bars to Enter Sandman when yourpiddly little practice amp doesn’t cause the neighbors to go ballistic aboutthe racket you’re creating? Yamaha’s new THR amps look to solve this problem,delivering the warmth, response and power of a valve amp in dinky, retropackages. They’re small – 5W or 10W – but Yamaha reckons the sounds is bigenough that the 10W is suitable for small gigs, making them more than capableof giving the cat tinnitus. Taking tech from Yamaha’s top – end pro mixingconsoles to simulate classic tube amp sounds, they can also be hooked up to aUSB audio source, so you can play along with the tracks on your PC.

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We all red or heard about iPod docks but few of them have all the qualities needed to impress a potential buyer even fewer to make a mark on a gadget fanatic. The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air iPod dock is one of them few how fascinates both in the elegance of the exterior design. Some say that, if you’re note familiar with the model you may mistake it for a fancy decorative vase, object. It is very well fine cut and manufactured that every dock maker will be envy the second they see it. The design is completed by wireless streaming (via AirPlay) and the sublime almost perfect sound that comes out of it.