Wired For Sound

Advantages: Brilliant sound for the price
Disadvantages: No sound limiter, long cable

...When looking for a pair of headphones to use with my PC, I was looking for the following attributes: 1. I wanted a pair of large closed cup headphones, the type that covered my ears as I hate in ear ones. 2. Decent sound quality so that I could listen to music and really enjoy the experience 3. I wanted to be able to sit in the same room as my daughter while she was playing her music full blast without hearing that annoying boom-da-boom noise coming from her direction. 4. I wanted to get all of this without spending a fortune, my budget was just £30. I spent quite a bit of time looking round at headphones before I decided on the Sennheiser HD201 closed back headphones which were selling on Amazon.co.uk for just £14.99. The black and silver headphones are really comfortable to wear, the padded headband is adjustable so even if...

wigglylittleworm 06.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sennheiser HD 201

Sweaty ear muffs!

Advantages: Low Cost, Reliable, Robust
Disadvantages: Loses a bit on bass sound

...gather dust tucked under our old sofa bed. A few months back in the throws of moving house my bulky old head phones finally met their maker, as my clumsily placed right boot simply broke them in two. Without the headphones, it was no longer even a passing consideration, we simply bubble wrapped the keyboard and off it went into storage, looking for all the world a lost cause. But in October when we finally moved into the new house, got a toy / play room set up, and the quest for the music was reborn. Sennheiser and sensibility I'll be honest, I'm certainly no connoisseur of the world of electronic gadgets and gismos, but was pretty sure of what was required here. A lightweight, durable, reliable affordable (under £20) set of headphones that would do the job. And lo and behold the birthday fairy delivered me the Sennheiser HD 201...

paulwilsontastic 19.01.2009 (30.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of Sennheiser HD 201

Sennheiser HD 20. Value for money.

Advantages: Great sound, durable, cheap.
Disadvantages: Lacks the range that some higher end headphones can provide. Not always loud enough.

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chowname 23.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sennheiser HD 201

HD pictures without monthly subsrciptions

Advantages: Excellent picture quality, intuitive epg, easy setup
Disadvantages: None

...I purchased this box initially for the Euro 2008 Matches which were shown on ITV HD as well as BBC HD. Upon opening the box, the first thing I noticed was how small the foxsat is. To give an idea I'd say it's 3/4 the size of a standard Sky digibox. The unit itself is supplied with the remote control, batteries, scart cable, component cable, and a reasonable quality HDMI cable. Connection of the box is very simple with just one connection to the satellite dish, mains plug and HDMI cable to your TV (assuming you are using a HD ready TV, which you should be if purchasing a HD receiver). After a small delay waiting for the box to boot up, the unit automatically searches for firmware updates and scans for all available channels. You have to enter your postcode during the setup process in order for the box to determine your...

bermudaviper 27.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Humax Foxsat-HD

High quality, affordable and comfortable!

Advantages: Everything you want from a pair of headphones: great sound, comfort and style
Disadvantages: Compactability

...Sennheiser are well known for making high quality headphones, and they have one again succeeded with the HD 201 on-ear headphones. After hearing music through these I have never returned to using in-ear headphones, they just take your ears by storm. I purchased a pair of HD 201 heaphones off Amazon about 4 months ago, and paid a tiny price of £11, and in my opinion, its the best £11 I have spent my whole life. These heaphones deliver high quality sound at only a fraction of the price of other on-ear headphone brands such as Boss and Sony. Whatever you plug these heaphones into whether it be an Ipod or your own HiFi, you won't be disappointed. These heaphones deliver a very clean sound, and even when listening to metal/rock music you can hear every instrument clearly without say the guitars outweighing the drums/bass (this may be as...

turnerpie 02.05.2007 · Read review
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Freeview HD

Advantages: Good quality reception, plenty of channels avalible
Disadvantages: Expensive, limited HD channels so far

...with it is the limted HD reception, admitedly it does look a lot better than normal digital. But it may just be the area i am in but i only have 1 dedicated HD channel. The rest have to be found by using the red button on the normal show. And even then the only HD tv seems to be football or tennis, admitedly for me it is not a bad thing. Im sure the variety can only get better though. Maybe doesn`t justify the expensive but is a solid all round freeview box....

stefanlaw 16.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Humax Foxsat-HD

SKY HD

Advantages: Superb picture quality
Disadvantages: Initial price and set up

...After all the hype I managed to get my Dad to invest in the HD box. He phoned the good people at Sky and managed to haggle the price down to around £100 off the advertised price and then had the cheek to also ask 'what happens to the old Sky+ box - can we have it installed in the bedroom thrown in'? Gosh Sky even agreed to that - so it's well worth having a chat on the phone and seeing what Sky can do for you! The box itself is simply Sky+ with extra's. The installation is a little irritating as the engineer told us that Sky are mega-security conscious. He said we had to leave everything turned on and wait at least 4 hours for the set up to be complete. He had to phone 'headquarters' to verify codes with them and actually said that took more of his time than the actual installation. He also said that he wouldnt be surprised if we had...

whosdexter92 19.08.2007 (31.07.2008) · Read review
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Review of SKY SKY HD BOX

The l201 is Excellent and better than expected!

Advantages: Slim, light, attractive, good battery life, produces really good images.
Disadvantages: No disadvantages as of yet!

...I had previously used a battery powered digital camera and found it to be very consuming, not only had I paid such a great deal for the camera but also had to constantly top it up. I decided to invest in a rechargable version; my first thoughts were that it was a little more expensive and wasn't sure how reliable the battery was, thankfully my purchase of the L201 was brilliant. I can take 400 pictures, at around 7 Mega-pixels and still have one bar left, memory for the camera is cheap and easy to come by, I purchased a card from Tesco for around £5. I took this to America and stored hundreds of pictures, without charging, leaving all of these on the memory card for the entire trip and returned home with enough battery to review all of my pictures and then upload them to my computer. It looks stylish, is very light and takes excellent...

stickyhoney 08.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Samsung Lumix L201

Samsung Syncmaster 2333HD touch of brilliance !

Advantages: 1080p, HDTV
Disadvantages: different angles prevents screen visibility

...Samsung 2333HD A 23inch LCD compact tv, with a built in freeveiw that gives the consumer and extra 30 channels than an average anolog tv. Where shall i start, well i will tell you of the positives, because i can tell you now that there is many more positives than there are negatives, you shall be happy to know :) Well to start off, resolution, fantastic ! 1080p, not always found in 23inch monitors, is included in this lovely device. In my own experience, samsung have always produced high quality, reasonably priced products, so i wasnt surprised at just how solid and highly made this television was, i also found that as a HDTV, i was pleasantly surprised to see just how nice of a picture the monitor gave out. I have almost no negative feedback to give on this LCD tv, although i will say that when watching or just looking...

corcky 09.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Samsung SyncMaster 2333HD

Simple yet effective box with HD

Advantages: Smart, compact, picture quality
Disadvantages: Slow, volume issues

...the channels. It generally updates itself every couple of weeks (it will ask you first) and only takes around 2 minutes. It is also possible to do a manual tune of non-freesat channels, although there is no EPG for these channels and to be honest most of them aren't worth bothering with, but if you have the time they are there. I am running the box through the HD port of my Philips LCD TV and find the picture clear and quite sharp (a definite improvement over the Sky box picture). I'm not sure if it's the box that is making the difference or the fact its running through the HD port instead of the SCART socket that makes the difference. The colours appear natural and smooth with only a little jaggedness around objects. The sound is also clear and strong. The HD picture on the other hand is FANTASTIC, the difference is very noticable. Infact I...

Metronic 28.05.2009 · Read review
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