Sennheiser unveils HDVA 600 analog headphone amp, asks for $1,600
Along with a few IFA 2012 announcements, Sennheiser peeled back the wraps from its HDVA 600 headphone amp, an analog flavor of the previously unveiled HDVD 800. Like its sibling, the freshly revealed...
View ArticleVisualized: A look inside Moog’s analog synthesizer factory
While we’re waiting for Moogfest to officially kick off this weekend, we stopped by the headquarters of Moog Music in Asheville, North Carolina to catch a glimpse of the analog action. The entire...
View ArticleElektron announces Analog Four synthesizer, spends the naming budget on viral...
Elektron makes button-heavy synths and samplers, it also makes great teaser videos. If you needed any proof, then its newest offering, Analog Four (and accompanying video), should be plenty. This...
View ArticleIreland completes spectrum auction after analog shutoff, LTE rollout pegged...
The dust has settled after Ireland’s recent spectrum auction, and wouldn’t you know it, Vodafone, O2, Meteor and Three have picked up a combined 140MHz of paired spectrum across the 800, 900 and...
View ArticleStylophone S2 portable analog synthesizer hands-on (video)
The original Stylophone is something of a legend. Made popular by David Bowie (and possibly if you’re British, Rolf Harris) in the late sixties / early seventies. Since then the original (shown in our...
View ArticleMoog Sub Phatty analog synthesizer hands-on (video)
A few days back, Moog teased a new synthesizer that we would come to meet properly as the Sub Phatty. Once we hit the show floor here in California, we made sure to drop by for live look. The analog...
View ArticleNAMM 2013 wrap-up: Analog synths, DJ gear, loads of MIDI, mobile peripherals...
We’ve managed to pull through music’s deafening January gathering just outside of Los Angeles with our hearing still somewhat intact. The last few days have held a wealth of DJ gear from controllers...
View ArticleKorg announces Volca analog synth series, we go eyes-on
Korg’s love of the mini-analog synth clearly remains strong as it’s added three more new ones to the fold — the Volca Beat, Volca Bass and Volca Keys (the clue to what they do is in the names). While...
View ArticleDuck Hunt pinball machine unites analog and PC in a nostalgia singularity...
We like pinball. We like classic NES games. Accordingly, it doesn’t take much deduction to know that we really, really like Skit-B Pinball’s Duck Hunt pinball machine. It has a fully mechanical,...
View ArticleMIT crafts analog circuits from living bacteria
Previous work on using organisms as circuitry has usually involved shoehorning parts of the digital world into a very analog environment. MIT has just found an approach that uses the subtlety of the...
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