Musical Fidelity A5.5 CD......

Advantages: Sweet,smooth & natural....Exceptional with voices...Great build...Above all, musical.
Disadvantages: At the price, nothing of significance...

...I have owned & heard many quality cd players throughout the years. Some good, some exceptional & some disappointing. Many players seem to focus on getting all the hifi criteria right, obsessed with the deepest bass,the widest soundstage, unearthing the last detail etc and to be honest it can all get a bit frustrating. Yes, all these things are great in a quick listen or impressing your friends for a few moments but there is more to it than that. I want something more from the music collection I have spent years putting together. I want something that sounds musical...something that does not favour any particular music, and is not downright impossible to match into a system. My first impression of the A5.5 was my lasting one. This sounds natural. This sounds like music and not hifi. My first few hours were spent not making apologies...

Dalton1974 30.07.2009 · Read review
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Musical Fidelity XRAY V3 CD player

Advantages: Build quality, sound, looks
Disadvantages: None

...I bought X-Ray V3 CD player along with the X-150 amp 3 months ago as a major upgrade to my main Hi-Fi system. Speakers used are my Monitor Audio Silver 9i's. The first thing you notice when you take the X-ray V3 out of the box is the sheer quality of it. It is made of solid (about 4 or 5mm) aluminium a in a cute little half-rack sized chassis and looks fantastic. But you dont buy a CD player because it looks nice I know, but it's a big plus for me. The remote is nice to use and finds the player from awkward angles and a long distance, so no messing about trying to get it to work when not sat in your usual listening position. Put simply I have never heard music sounding as "real" anywhere bar a live performance. The difference I find between this CD player and other players is the mid range detail. I love listening to the X...

Kel1981 04.09.2005 · Read review
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BOSE: Music for the soul

Advantages: Great sound quality, perfet at loud volumes, just in general FANTASTIC
Disadvantages: none so far

...Anything made by BOSE can be trusted. Its sound quality is always at its best, no matter what soundsystem you use from bose, and it's true... you get what you pay for. Jus plug it in and press "ON" and you're set up! IT'S THAT EASY! bose is a big brang name, and everyone expects the best from, and how right they are. The sounddocks simplistic design brings out the best of your mp3 player, making it the whole music experience that much better. For (at most) £300, you are getting exactly what you pay for AND more! The bose soundock has an inate wonder within itself, which brings you to appreciate the minor details embedded into whatever track you are listening to. Its reasonably light weight, comes with an easy to use remote and from there onwards, it really is just you and your music i can easily say that the best thing about...

joshm12 30.05.2008 · Read review
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Wii music

Advantages: Learn about instruments
Disadvantages: Not interesting enough for me

...I love my Nintendo Wii and love playing new and different games on it. I recently played the Wii Music but unfortunately this was one game that I really did not like. Wii music was released in 2008 and allows players to simulate playing with real musical instruments. You use either the Wii remote or the nunchuk to play the instruments. THe disappointment for me was that the instruments were just not realistic enough. For example, I love Wii Sports because I think the tennis, bowling and actually all the games are really realistic and it feels like you are actually there playing the game. With the Wii Instruments it did not feel like you had a real instrument in your hands and also the Mii characters on the screen just did not react well to the movements. It was more of a chore trying to play the instruments and I gave up pretty soon...

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Bose SoundDock Digital Music System Review

Advantages: Superb Sound, Very Loud, Ideal for Ipods
Disadvantages: not go to travel with, Extremely Expensive

...Bose SoundDock Digital Music System I happened to get this as a gift and it turned out to be quiet interesting Summary: This dock is used mainly for ipod and allows you to connet mp3 players to it and listen to high quality music via speakers. It is idle for homes and small gatherings, although I would not run a party off these. Pros: This system has terrific sound and can go very load despite its relative small size. As with almost all Bose speakers the quality is amazing, so long as the source you are playing it from is high quality it will allow the speakers to each its potential. I have a surround sound Bose set up in one of my rooms but now prefer to use this product as it is very simple to operate. Just plug the mp3 player in and press play and your set. Can't get much simpler. It also runs off a wall...

plunt 05.04.2008 · Read review
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Musical Difference

Advantages: Some laughs and wittisms
Disadvantages: Format, weak in parts

...feeling down. He is going through a ‘What is it all about?’ phase, and trying to re-evaluate his life. Scared he has to grow up, he is a compulsive top five maker who is suffering a kind of mid-life crisis. In his shop he has a couple of geek-ish assistants. Two mid twenty years olds who have wasted their lives in pursuit of music. College dropouts, these two are very funny in deed, particularly Barry played by Jack Black (Tenacious D). They are fountains of pop music knowledge and losers to boot. Likeable losers, though. High Fidelity is ‘boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again.’ During this predictable format, boy ‘learns a lot about himself and makes subtle changes to his life.’ There are laughs along the way, and sadness and joy. Also starring in this 2002 film are Tim Robbins...

Borg 07.08.2002 · Read review
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Maintaining and Managing-- Fidelity!!

Advantages: ISA, Ease of use, multiple funds under one umbrella.
Disadvantages: Time delay in receiving redemption payouts.

...INTRODUCTION: Fidelity Investments is one of the worlds largest privately owned asset management organisations. It opened its research office in London in 1973 and six years later offered funds to UK investors. It is now a leading provider of ISA's and also one of the leading fund managing houses. It also hosts a fund supermarket under the name of Fidelity FundsNetwork. My experience: I have found investing through fidelity useful in many ways. The most important being that I can put my finger in several different pies in the four corners of the investment world, and all from the comfort of my drawing room. ISA: If you are a UK tax payer you would definitely be welcome to the fact that you can invest some money that you squirrel away, without the worry that the taxman can eat a chunk of your profit/ gains. Here...

liana3030 12.06.2007 (19.07.2007) · Read review
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A Wii bit musically challenged

Advantages: See Pros in review
Disadvantages: See Cons in review

..., using the Wii remote and nunchuk and ringing them like hand bells. Pitch Perfect quizzes users on their musical skills by identifying proper pitches, arranging music (in a very basic fashion that does not require the ability to read sheet music), and picking out notes within a chord The controls on Wii music are kept very simple. For guitar like instruments you simply strum without worrying about the notes, which are selected by the game engine. The drums and piano instruments are played by the player waving their hands up and down. The Wii remote and the nunchuk are used to imitate drumsticks (somewhat difficult to as the controllers are much bulkier than actual drumsticks - also the system isn't as quick to respond as it needs to be) The Brass instruments are played by holding the remote near to the players mouth and using...

oldchem 14.08.2009 (23.08.2009) · Read review
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Wii Music Falls Flat

Advantages: Good Amount Of Instruments To Play
Disadvantages: Very boring, Doesn't Let You play Beats, Just A God Awful Game

..., and then realised, within 10 minutes I had played on everything the game has to offer. Okay, I know the game isn?t aimed a 7 year olds and not 17 year olds, but as I love music, and the adverts were so good for this game, I really thought it?d be for me. However, what you see on the advert is what you get with the game. That?s all it offers and it is possibly one of the most expensive, crappest games I?ve ever played in my life. Let me tell you a little bit more about the game and why it?s one of the worst games I?ve played on Wii so far. What is Wii Music? Wii Music is free form game for the Wii console which allows the user to simulate playing musical instruments by using the Wii Remote, Nun Chuck and even the Wii Balance Board which came with the Wii Fit. How to Play It? To play the game, you don?t need the Wii...

DixieChick10 31.05.2009 · Read review
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Nokia 5800 touch screen music phone

Advantages: Quick and easy to use
Disadvantages: Can get damaged easily

...The 5800 XpressMusic is a revolution for Nokia with it being the first touch screen phone produced by the manufacturer. With its slim lined shape it is an easy phone to hold and to use. The stylus being made of plastic makes the phone as light as possible and easy to hold and to use with the screen. The back of the phone can be removed without out fuss to get at the battery and the SIM card which is slotted into the side of the phone but only removable by removing the back and the battery. The Nokia 5800 takes a micro SD memory card that can go up to 16GB in size that also slots into the side of the phone that the SIM goes in. The general use of this phone is simple and to task with many shortcuts through menus including the 4 buttons on the front of the phone one of which opens a shortcut menu for media applications including music...

Halflighter 30.05.2009 · Read review
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