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It’s been a while since I last posted here, so this post will encapsulate a few of the tech. items that I have come across since my last entry.
First up we have the BeoSound 6 mp3 player from Bang & Olufsen.
Now, being a B&O product, you expect it to be a little on the pricey side, but you also expect a superb bit of kit for that money. Which 
makes the BeoSound 6 somewhat of a letdown.
4GB of storage (I couldn’t find out if it was HDD or Flash based, but going by the form factor I’d suspect Flash), 1.8″ display with the following formats supported - mp3, WMA and OGG. It will play nicely with iTunes via a plugin.
It’s dimensions are 3.5″ tall x 0.5″ thick.
It’ll cost you in the region of about £400, which is a bargain considering the 160 GB iPod classic costs you £229. Oh, hang on …
Next up we have a keyboard that costs a lot more than the $1,500 Optimus Maximus. A. Lot. More.
About $26,500 more!
That’s right, for about £15,000 you too could have one of these XYNERGI keyboards from Fairlight.
Now, to be fair, that price tag doesn’t just cover the cost of the keyboard, there’s a whole suite of audio and video editing software that comes with it, but still, I think I’d go for the Optimus Maximus if I had silly money to spend on a keyboard. I wonder if either of them work on Macs. *shrug*
Next up we are back with the music scene, and what could be 
arguably be labeled the nicest format of all; vinyl.
To start us off we have a turntable that has taken design cues from the process that is employed to actually cut the grooves in vinyl master discs. It’s designed around three separate units; the pick-up unit, the drive unit and the turntable. It also boasts to have completely silent bearings.
This one comes in two versions, a silver (chrome?) and black edition of the less than friendly price of $35,400 and the wallet busting Luxury Edition white/24k gold model, coming in at a cool $41,250 (pictured).
That’s just pocket change compared to the next one on the list.
This next one resembles something that wouldn’t look out of place on a science fiction set dresser’s list.
The ‘Work of Art‘ (yes, that’s actually it’s name) by Basis Audio will
set you back a whopping £75,000. What does the turntable give you for money that can be better spent on buying yourself a house? Well, among other things it has what’s called a Resonance Annihilator, which I’m sure would make the aforementioned set dresser go weak at the knees, but in reality it’s some fancy anti-vibration technology.
Finally we have the Pièce de résistance, the Reference II, by
Goldmund.
I really don’t know where to start with this, it has so many technical specs that I’m certainly not going to list them all here.
It’s also a limited run of just 25 (though weather that’s an initial run, or a total run, I do not know).
And the price? Well, that would be in the region of £150,000.
My house never cost that much.
I’d like to apologise for the layout of this post, there still seems to be problems when aligning text and images. >8+<
Ooooow. I LOVE the look of modern vinyl players. They are little master works that make sound. Their proper engineering gone mad and insane.
“proper engineering gone mad and insane.”
I like that. I may use it in future.
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