hi fi

Apple iPod Hi-Fi

Digital Living Apple's big white box combines two speakers, a sub, an amplifier, an iPod dock and a remote control. It turns your portable music player into a room-filling home stereo, but is it over priced, over hyped, overly heavy and over here?

31 March 2006, 15:43

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. For the best result, you could eliminate the hi-fi amplifier stage...

6 April 2006, 11:28

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

Digital Living At the other end of the scale, Shure's flagship SE530s -- also sound-isolating earphones -- feature three separate micro speaker drivers -- that's more than some hi-fi speaker systems! Denon's AH-D5000 headphones are constructed from a Japanese...

Tags: noise, compressed, speaker, pair

17 October 2007, 14:30

How do I listen to the music on my PC in another room?

Digital Living Once you've connected the audio-out ports on the streamer to the audio-in ports on your hi-fi, it plays the songs from your PC over your home Wi-Fi network. Opt for the Sonos ZP80 if you already have a decent hi-fi, as you can use your existing...

21 February 2007, 16:44

Sonos ZP80

Digital Living Invest in a pair of ZP80s and you can stream all your digital music from your computer to your hi-fi, wirelessly. Setup is effortless and configuration almost nonexistent, but does the ease of use justify the high price?

5 May 2006, 10:32

Which printer should I buy? review

Digital Living Most printers connect to a PC or laptop via a USB cable, but some let you print pictures straight from a mobile phone via Bluetooth, USB memory key, infrared or Wi-Fi. Hi, I'd like to buy an affordable, durable printer that can produce colour...

Tags: colour, printing, wi fi, cable

22 June 2006, 15:58

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living To give you just one example of how difficult it it is to get technologies to converge, many vendors have now launched hybrid music products that are supposed to make it easier to stream your music from your PC to your hi-fi.

4 January 2006, 11:43

Which new iPod should I buy?

Digital Living This £159-£229 player is also a great choice to use with a good hi-fi, since lossless audio is, for most people, as good through a nice system as a CD, plus you'll be able to output your video library to any TV (with an optional cable).

26 September 2007, 16:08

What MP3 player for my particular needs?

Digital Living It's widely accepted as having the best sound quality of all the current MP3 players -- several specialist hi-fi magazines place it top for sound quality -- and it's by far the most usable (Apple holds a patent on the Click Wheel, which is the...

23 November 2006, 16:11

What's lossless audio and do I need it?

Digital Living The main reason to use lossless audio is if you use a high-quality hi-fi speaker system at home, or if you use very expensive earphones. I've heard that using lossless audio compression gives hugely improved sound quality over MP3.

18 July 2007, 11:55

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living I plugged my PowerBook into my hi-fi and sat back to enjoy the benefits of a centralised music server. What does it mean to live a digital life? I know I spend an enormous amount of time quarelling with computing and electronics equipment.

16 May 2005, 11:40

A brief introduction to global gadget warming

Digital Living The cracks are beginning to appear -- that terrible phone with Motorola, the iPod Hi-Fi. Gadgets all over the world are losing their cool rapidly. From Scunthorpe to Sydney, we're seeing global gadget warming, and it's going to get worse.

18 April 2006, 11:03

Home cinema: understanding the risks

Digital Living Plug it into your laptop, hook it up to your hi-fi and have a go. Home cinema sounds like a great idea when you're standing in Tottenham Court Road, looking at shining silver speaker stacks and admiring The Fifth Element on a 60-inch plasma.

2 March 2006, 16:29

Which mobile phone for the gym?

Digital Living It only has a 2-megapixel camera and no Wi-Fi or 3G, but it does come with a 3.5mm headphone jack, so you can use your normal headphones. Hi, I am due an upgrade soon and I'm looking for a mobile phone that has a good MP3 player with a headphone...

14 January 2008, 10:49

What is the difference between Intel's Centrino and Core Duo?

Digital Living These chips have twice as much Level 2 cache memory for better performance, have optional high-speed 802.11n Wi-Fi access, plus Intel 64 technology, which lets you take advantage of 64-bit operating systems.

30 May 2007, 10:34