Rocker Chuck Berry plays what Gibson called the Electric Spanish, a guitar style based, in part, on Flamenco guitars. The ES 355, originally released in 1958, has been the definitive jazz and blues guitar for countless performers Berry is getting…
Listening to lossless music on your iPhone is actually quite hard. If you have AirPods, for example, you can listen to nearly lossless audio which ranges from 16-bit/44.1 kHz. To listen to Hi-Res Lossless, which streams at up to 24-bit/192kHz.…
German headphone engineer Axel Grell has launched a new line of wireless headphones called the grell TWS/1. The in-ear headphones offer higher-end sound for about $199. Grell is a well-known European headphone designer and this is one of his first…
Universal Audio does some amazing hardware and software designed to pull audio signals out of amps and microphones and stuff them into your laptop or PC. Their Apollo series is surprisingly solid for the size and price and their new…
So this is an interesting thing. Gibson is adding a hole to the top side of its acoustic guitars in an effort to allow more sound to come up towards the player vs. out towards the audience. It’s very weird.…
I’m a guitar lover so when I had the chance to try the Fender Jazzmaster Acoustasonic I didn’t think twice. What more could you want? It’s a beautiful, California-made electro-acoustic that looks like the side of a 1960s station wagon.…
It’s been a hard year. To help keep myself sane I’ve started listening to Jazz on vinyl. It’s a type bit of middle-aged dad pretension that people make jokes about but there is just something about the experience. Spotify and…
This amazing video by the band OK Go is full of all of the bombast that these guys are great at while, at the same time, being one of the purest expressions of unity I’ve seen. I love to hate…
Loog guitars, man. They’ve been making guitars that kids could assemble and learn on for years. I first learned about them in 2011. They’re still at it, now using an app, Augmented Reality monsters, and a built-in amp in the…
The Sonos Port looks to be the best-sounding way to make your old receiver or Hi-Fi work with Sonos. Sonos music has been a good offering for years: all the music you can stream. The problem is, how do you…