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Loudspeaker big wig Bowers & Wilkins is saying !!! better quality sounds for your money with the launch of the heavily revamped 500 Series speaker range - the company's entry-level offering.

The 12 model line-up has extensively borrowed technology from company's flagship Nautilus as well as its 500 Series sibling. This represents, in B&W's words, "a huge leap forward in performance and offers levels of technology that have previously not been attainable at this price level."

In practice the 500 Series gets new Kevlar bass/mid-range and mid-range FST speaker drive units with a new open-profile chassis and a fixed-phase plug that minimises air noise. The drive units also have a new surround profile and a copper clad pole piece that improves integration with the tweeter.

The Nautilus aluminium dome tweeter is "the most technologically advanced that B&W has ever offered in an entry-level product".

 

 

Sony has launched what it calls the Giga Juke Hard drive ?? a hard disc hi-fi device designed to rip your CDs into MP3s, label and store the files without the need for a PC or a Mac. It's a device that will appeal to people who want to get involved with digital music but who don't own a computer.

The Giga Juke stores, labels, and organises your music in its 350Gb internal hard drive using unique new software. And as it seems like a lot of Sony products these days, it's easy to use the Giga Juke with other Sony music products. When you're ready to go on the move, you can transfer your favourite tunes directly to a Sony Walkman or other portable audio players still without the need for a computer.

The Giga Juke can store up to 50,000 music tracks on its 350GB deck. Music files can be imported from virtually any source and stored in a choice of popular MP3, ATRAC and Linear PCM audio formats.

This will please music fans who are happy to listen to compressed music and also more discerning audiophiles who prefer to listen from a crisper, uncompressed source.

 

Sounds really good !!!