Advantages: shuts out background noise, allows lowr volume, decent sound, removable cord Disadvantages: slightly chunky, lack of lower bass
Anyone who has to travel to any extent whether it's by train, plane or bus will know how noisy the background can get and how high you have to have the volume to allow you to make out what you're listening to, especially with spoken word material like podcasts. Over time, these volume levels are both bad for your ears as well as being anti-social to other passengers.
There are plenty of headphones that claim to be noise-reducing or noise-cancelling but in practice, most are just designed to fill your ear canals more snugly. Some do have an element of proper noise cancelling via electronics but for some time now the benchmark has been the excellent Bose range although with prices of £250 or more, these are out of most people's price range.
I was thus very happy to find a pair of Panasonic's RP-HC500's to try out. These are still ...
Advantages: Great picture and sound quality, Good build quality, Champagne gold finish looks nice Disadvantages: MP3 feature not as good as it should be, Not cheap
with these shops is you get carried away before you know it you are looking at a Home Theatre System that?s costing way above your price range. So I set myself a budget and asked the sales assistant for advise on the best equipment I could get for my money. I was shown a Denon Home Theatre set-up, the DVD-2800 being part of it. The full set-up was the DVD player a Denon AVR-2802 Amp and a set of five Definitive Technology speakers which they set it up I their demonstration room so I could see and hear them in action.
The DVD-2800 player
It had just been released and looked very smart in the champagne gold finish. The main difference from the older model was the Pro-Logic 2 feature which enables the speakers behind you to produce stereo sound effects. Pro-Logic 1 could only produce mono sound effects.
It?s a big unit about double ...
gavcooper 21.02.2002
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Denon DVD 2800
Advantages: all in one unit Disadvantages: need to learn how to get the right sounds
The digitech RP12 is a floor based multi effects unit for guitar with the ability to store sounds and call them up quickly and easily.
The range of effects is vast and they cann be combined to create a good range of sounds.
You store the sounds in banks and they can be accessed through the floor pedal board.
The effect quality is very good and the programming of the sounds is easy. You get 64 standard settings and can set 64 more
The manual gives a good start to the unit and allows you to get into the creation of effects quickly. The best way to learn to use it is to have a go and you soon will pick it up.
At the cost it is agood unit with a great range.
effects include distortion, eq, phaser, comprssor/limiter, echo, reverb ...
