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Cocktail Audio X10
The X10 is all about digitising, accessing and even adding to a music collection – and all without the need for a computer, with the ability to fit over 7,000 albums on its 500GB innards. Working as a NAS drive as well as a modern day hi-fi, we’re not sure the X10 fills a gap…
Samsung YP-Q3 MP3/MP4 player
Samsung isn’t a big name in portable entertainment devices – so devices like the YP-Q3 MP3 player are designed to pack in as much functionality as they can, but keep the pricing keen. It’s available in capacities of 4GB and 8GB, in two different colours: red or black. FunctionalityThe YP-Q3 plays back music and video,…
Cowon D3 Plenue personal media player
When Cowon released its D3 earlier this year it met with mixed reviews. Criticised for its sluggish performance and poor app support among others, its ‘Plenue’ re-release under Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) looks to fix some of these issues, offering improved performance and a handful of new tweaks and additions. Design and buildFirst up it’s a…
Cambridge Audio Sonata NP30 Network Music Player
The Cambridge Audio Sonata is a wireless music streaming device specifically designed to cope with a wide range of lossless audio formats. Ripping CD collections into these lossless music formats – be it AIFF, FLAC or WAV – seems to have become the latest hobby for the bedroom-bound, so it’s no surprise to see a…
Pure Sirocco 550
Pure’s latest micro hi-fi seems to have it all. The Sirocco 550 offers digital DAB and analogue FM radio, a CD player, iPod dock, USB flash drive slot, alarm clock and Wi-Fi for access to internet radio via Pure’s Lounge. There’s an aux-in connector too, so you can plug in MP3 players and other inputs,…
Avanquest Audials One 8
The job of Audials One? To save you money. Rather than having you spend your spare cash in the iTunes store, or on Amazon MP3, what Audials One wants you to do is download your music from Internet radio stations instead. Thus, once you’ve paid out the £40 for the software, you need never spend…
Speedo AquaBeat
Do you get bored in the swimming baths? Of course you do, which is why Speedo – of skimpy trunks fame – has come up with this waterproof MP3 player that easily meets its, err, brief. Something of a novelty item despite its lofty price, the AquaBeat delivers on its main promise of being waterproof,…