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Why I Love White Speakers
Everyone has a favorite color; mine is red, and my husband (it’s no secret about Jeff Dorgay) loves lime green. When it comes to accessorizing these are the colors that attract us.
HiFi Racks Limited – Grand Stand XL
While many argue about the sonic effects of a good hifi rack, you can count us in the plus category. With so many different configurations to choose from, and some having more benefit than others, the Grand Stand XL you see here is a winner for many reasons.
Wax Stacks Cubes
Here we present a bit more old school, more organic, less expensive and more scalable way to store your LPs. The crates you see here from Wax Stacks are made from birch ply (a totally green, renewable wood source) and can be stacked to infinity.
Rock Star Soap
You might not look like a rock star, and you might not be a rock star, but now you can bathe like one. Do rock stars bathe? If they did, we suspect that they might use this herbal blend, dark red soap from Lush.
Apple Watch
Do you want an Apple Watch? Of course you do! but what you MUST do before succumbing online, is take advantage of the Apple Store ‘Try On ‘Programme and get one on your wrist.
Wax Rax RC-2 Record Cart
Six years ago, I wrote the review below. I remain as enthused about the Wax Rax RC-2 as ever. The price has gone up slightly, due to increased materials cost (from $1,525 in 2015 to $1,825 in 2021) but this product is still worth every penny.
KEF LS-50 Speakers – Blue and White
We love the KEF LS-50 and after almost two years, three of the TONE staff use them as their small speaker reference, so we are still enamored. With so much essence of the KEF Blade in such a small package, these speakers offer scary good imaging and coherence.
Madison Fielding Flagstone PlanterSpeakers
Water and speakers don’t usually mix well. But when your speakers double as planters, you have to water them, if you don’t want the foliage contained therein to whither and die.
Hello Kitty Fruit Roll-Ups
When you’re in the middle of a painstaking turntable setup session and you need the ultimate sugar rush, try some Hello Kitty Fruit Roll-Ups. These babies are loaded with sugar.
Ortofon DS-1 Digital Scale
While gadgets aren’t always fashionable, a properly set up turntable is always in style. And what better way to adjust tracking force than with a digital scale? We’ve tried some of the cheapie, Chinese-made digital scales in the $40–$60 range, but they have all had relatively short lifespans.
RecordWall-it
For those of you who like to display your albums on the wall, or keep better track of what’s currently spinning on your turntable, the RecordWall-it is an elegant solution that doesn’t require you to take the frame apart when you want to change the album art, and if you’re good at keeping things level, you can use two side by side for double albums.
Quirky’s Power Curl
Tired of always finding your MacBook charger in a giant ball? Quirky’s Power Curl comes in different sizes, depending on your model, and they come in some fun, or should we say, quirky colors.
In Search of the Ultimate Listening Chair
I’ll bet you have more than a few sets of great interconnects and power cords, but you probably don’t have a great listening chair. For the guys in the audience, this might be a good bonding experience to have with your wife or girlfriend.
Microsoft Surface 3 Pro
As a dyed in the wool group of Apple enthusiasts, it’s tough to ignore the new Surface 3 Pro from Microsoft. We can argue the Windows vs. Mac interface until we become exhausted, so let’s leave that out of it, shall we – that’s a great way to waste hours of your life on an internet forum some evening.
The Smart Car Electric Drive
Here at TONEAudio, we’ve been green from day one, eschewing chopping down trees for a consumer magazine, which has just never felt right to us—even when we lived in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Beats Pill
On one level, Beats has become the new Bose, in that everyone loves to slag Beats. But like the legendary Bose 901 speaker, which we reviewed a few years ago, most of the Beats stuff is pretty damn good and not worthy of the aggression thrown its way.
Jaguar F-TYPE Coupe
Colors, like fashions, change in such a fluid manner that at times you don’t even realize that they’ve happened. Pretty soon everyone is wearing skinny jeans and you’re caught without.
KISS Lunchbox
While perusing the cassettes on sale for 99 cents each I almost missed this one, but my daughter let out a squeal when she saw the KISS lunchbox, not realizing this is a most excellent one from the period celebrating the four “individual” KISS records.
The Kiss Van
Here’s one fan’s ultimate expression for the hottest band in the land, and it succeeds brilliantly. Contact artist Jay Werner at his studio to explore the possibilities.
Kiss Plushies
Move over Bart Simpson. The hottest plushies in the land are here, and they rule. At about eight inches tall, the likeness of the band’s four individual members are captured in grand style, from the platform boots to guitarist Ace Frehley’s gold Les Paul.
Skooba Design Cable Stable Rollup Kit
Always losing USB cables, in-ear phones and those new small chargers that come with the iPod and iPhone? The Skooba Design Cable Stable Rollup Kit barely takes up any space in your purse, briefcase or suitcase and holds four such items.
Maxboost Atomic Air External Battery and Case for iPhone 5
First the good news: the Maxboost significantly outperforms its published spec of doubling the battery life of an iPhone 5, it almost triples it. And the integral hard case barely adds any weight or girth to the iPhone’s sleekness.
Sennheiser HH10 Headphone Holder
The saying goes, “you can’t have everything, because where would you put it?” The compact Sennheiser HH10 Headphone Holders go a long way at alleviating that problem.
Nerf N-Strike Elite Retaliator Blaster
Who wouldn’t want one of these? Whether attacking your kids, co-workers or spouse, this is the perfect way to take out your anger in a way that nobody gets hurt.
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