listening

What's the difference between noise-cancelling and noise-isolating headphones?

Digital Living Both 'noise-isolating' and 'noise-cancelling' headphones aim to reduce how much sound from the outside world gets into your ear and subtracts from your listening pleasure. These kinds of headphones can significantly improve your listening...

19 April 2007, 10:52

What's lossless audio and do I need it?

Digital Living The problem with this form of 'lossy' compression is that many people can perceive the bits of audio discarded and are left with the feeling that they're listening to lower quality music. If you're just listening to music on your iPod, using the...

18 July 2007, 12:55

Radio radio: it's a sound sensation

Digital Living You can stand po-faced in the lift in your well-cut suit while listening to Violet Blue's open source sex podcast, thrilling as she lisps unspeakable filth into your earbuds. After just a few minutes listening to Melvyn discuss important topics...

13 March 2006, 14:20

How can I convert my vinyl collection to MP3?

Digital Living There are several ways to transfer your old analogue records into an MP3 format for listening on the move. Hello, call me a luddite, call me an Antiques Roadshow viewer, but I have a problem. I like my MP3s, but I love my old record collection.

6 April 2006, 12:28

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

Digital Living Some are quite fun, but whenever I've played with them, I always end up spending more time configuring them than actually listening to music. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada is a massive industry event at which the world's...

4 January 2006, 11:43

Don't let your children catch DVD

Digital Living The audience may be listening, but you're still not watching the bloody film. Your children can now be exposed to DVDs at the homes of their friends, in supermarkets and shopping centres -- even public libraries are no longer safe.

24 April 2006, 12:09

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living I have certain friends I use as pathfinders: people I can ring up or email and say, "What should I be reading/listening to/watching? You spend a third of your day working, a third of the day sleeping, and you have another eight hours a day to spend...

26 October 2005, 12:48

Best Firefox extensions

Digital Living FoxyTunes If you spend a lot of time browsing the Web while listening to music, switching to your media player to pause for a phone call can be inconvenient. When you ask most people what Web browser they use, the answer often will be Internet...

24 August 2006, 12:00

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living Until then, my advice to the labels, if they're listening, is that they should learn to accept some small degree of piracy. Apparently, someone named warlock1711 posted the discovery on the CD Freaks bulletin board, and from there it spread to...

9 May 2005, 15:48

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

Digital Living If you use audio formats with bit rates higher than 192kbps -- better yet, lossless -- consider revolutionising your listening experience and parting with some cash. I've seen earphones cost from about £20 to £500.

Tags: noise, compressed, speaker, pair

17 October 2007, 15:30