headphone

Which mobile phone for the gym?

Digital Living Hi, I am due an upgrade soon and I'm looking for a mobile phone that has a good MP3 player with a headphone socket, that I can use at the gym or when walking the dog. It only has a 2-megapixel camera and no Wi-Fi or 3G, but it does come with a...

14 January 2008, 10:49

What MP3 player for my particular needs?

Digital Living I have an old Creative MuVo2 4GB which is starting to show its age -- I've just had to reformat the hard disk for the second time and the headphone socket is wobbly so the sound is intermittent. Obviously time to upgrade then, but I just don't know...

23 November 2006, 16:11

How can I convert my vinyl collection to MP3?

Digital Living Some MP3 players, such as the Samsung YH-820 and the mobiBLU DAH-1900, will let you run a line straight from the headphone socket of your hi-fi amplifier into the MP3 player itself. Hello, call me a luddite, call me an Antiques Roadshow viewer, but...

6 April 2006, 12:28

End the gadget madness and put the iPod down

Digital Living I've even got a battery-powered Boosteroo three-way headphone volume booster, in case I need more power -- fast. This iPod thing is not a fad. It's not a craze. It's an arms race, and it's going to end badly.

18 March 2006, 8:00

Do I need to pay more than £30 for earphones?

Digital Living Every component in this sort of headphone is carefully selected, meticulously implemented and painstakingly tested for optimum performance. I've seen earphones cost from about £20 to £500. I can't understand what makes something like that worth so...

Tags: noise, compressed, speaker, pair

17 October 2007, 15:30