bass

V-Moda Bass Freq headphones: Get your Christmas Freq on

Crave Following our look at the Product Red nano, then the blushing red SeeThru case for dressing up our MacBook Pro, we wanted to complete the jigsaw puzzle with the V-Moda Bass Freq headphones. The Bass Freq headphones fit in slightly lower down the...

Tags: range, colour, headphones, bass

4 December 2006, 9:00

Hands-on with the Gear4 Bass Station iPod boombox

Crave For those of you who haven't spent the rest of your spare cash on discounted Easter eggs from Woolworths, take a glance at Gear4's new iPod speaker system -- the Bass Station. The only problem is that there isn't a bass reflex port, so all that air...

Tags: gear4, speaker, bass, hi fi

26 March 2008, 11:42

Rolling with the inMotion iM7

Crave While other iPod speakers have the range and timbre of Sooty, the iM7 has the bass register of James Earl Jones choking on car exhaust fumes. Most iPod speakers whimper a pathetic tinny racket, but the £200 iM7 rolls succulent bass tones out of its...

Tags: altec lansing, speakers, speaker, bass

25 November 2005, 10:55

V-moda Vibe Headphones: Inner pieces

Crave Plenty of headphone manufacturers tout phrases like 'noise cancelling', or 'enhanced bass', but when the V-moda Vibe Headphones appeared, they arrived with some outstanding jargon: 'low structure-borne sound sensitivity' takes things to a whole...

Tags: headphones, bass, headphone, vibe

27 November 2006, 11:14

Onkyo LS-V501: Show your TV how sound should be done

Crave Weak bass and nasty vocals. The Onkyo can also decode DTS 96/24 and Dolby Digital soundtracks, which means you'll get lovely clean speech and crisp pumping bass. You look over at your TV and you feel a little twinge of joy.

Tags: onkyo, dvd player, high quality, speakers

31 January 2008, 10:55

Hands-on with the Scandyna Micropod SE and Minibass

Crave Sound quality from The Dock and the Micropod SEs was excellent for general use, but we were unimpressed with the bass, or rather the lack of it. With this thing hooked up to The Dock, our ears were blown away in a frenzy of room-shattering bass.

Tags: scandyna, setup, speakers, bass

6 July 2007, 12:05

Ears-on with the Denon AH-C751 earphones

Crave Firstly, their bass response blows pretty much every competitor out of the water, with a low-end response starting at 12Hz. It's an extremely tight, smooth bass, too, with tonnes of power. Denon's terrific AH-C700 earphones blew us away last year...

Tags: denon, response, dance, earphones

25 March 2008, 10:54

Hands-on with the Griffin Amplifi 2.1 iPod speakers

Crave While highs and mids are balanced and nicely defined, considering the price, the bass is truly outstanding -- there's enough oomph here to blast a midget off his circus podium. Some of our favourite drum 'n' bass tracks were incredibly well...

27 September 2007, 12:40

Audio Technica W5000 headphones: Can candy

Crave We're also promised that AT's 'Double Air Damping System' will provide an extra wallop of bass, should it need it. After months of continued listening, we found the AH-D5000's bass ever so slightly protruded into the lower mid-range.

Tags: audio technica, range, bass, mid range

12 May 2008, 11:34

Ministry of Sound MOSMC139IP: Teenage beats

Crave Each 10W speaker houses twin drivers and hopefully handles bass well, given the MoS's love of deep chest-pounding kick-drum action. The system also includes a bass-boost option to further distort enhance low-end impact and really irritate parents...

Tags: ministry of sound, bass, windows media, drivers

25 September 2007, 10:01

Sharp DK-A10HBK: iPod docking with style

Crave A two-way bass reflex system and two integrated subwoofers promise clarity and bass, and the unit will pump out music with 22W of total output power. Sharp has announced a new iPod-integrated hi-fi system, which aims to deliver superior sound...

Tags: sharp, generation, cd rom, bass

14 March 2007, 14:00

Ears-on with Creative's Aurvana Live headphones

Crave Sound quality is equally impressive: there's oodles of detail across the audible spectrum, along with pounding bass response and punchy mids. On a live recording of Dream Theater's Endless Sacrifice, the hands of hundreds of fans can be heard...

Tags: creative, headphones, bass, cans

5 December 2007, 9:38

Hands-on with Gear4's Blackbox wireless speakers

Crave Along with having A2DP stereo Bluetooth compatibility to stream choons from your phone, it's got a 3.5mm line-in socket and a little bass reflex port for that added oomph. To the rear we see a bass reflex port, AC socket and a 3.5mm line-in socket.

15 October 2007, 13:09

Hands-on with Denon's AH-C700 sound-isolating earphones

Crave Get the 'phones fitted properly in your ears though, and the warmth and power of the bass is superb.You might find that the slightly overpowering cleanliness of higher frequencies subtracts from the overall feel, but this may only be an issue with...

Tags: denon, bass, high end, ears

5 July 2007, 10:59

Hands-on with the Olympus LS-10: 24-bit voice and music

Crave You'll want to smack the bass up in EQ when listening on a hi-fi or when you're splitting tracks on your computer, but the bass that's captured is clean and tight. You know CDs are capable of pristine sound quality, but we've been playing with a...

Tags: olympus, recorder, recording, recordings

13 May 2008, 11:46