What a year it's been for guitars - so difficult to choose the 5 best! We had a go anyway: here are Jef's Top 5 guitars of 2018, chosen for their unique properties and interesting designs.
The ultimate Sonic Youth 'garage sale' could well be a huge hit, as it includes some classic gear that has been played, used and personalised or modified by the band over the years.
Consumer technology has its Samsung, soft drinks have their Coca-Cola, enterprise computing has its Microsoft... and, in the very near future, if not already, music has its Behringer.
Two for the price of one and posh audio - these are the HA-73's main selling points. And at around EUR 1500 (excl. VAT), it makes for a fine deal, considering it's built with components like Carnhill ...
With most of 2018 now behind us, it's time we took a look at the five most impressive pieces of studio gear we came across over the past 8 months. The industry didn't disappoint us at all this year!
The new Core i9 with 10,718 points is about 17% faster than AMD's pretender with a 9147 result. Intel's top-shelf CPU, the Core i7-8700K, racked up 7918 points, which calculates to a 25% performance difference.
Blue seems very pleased with the development, citing Logitech's "vast resources" as capable of "supercharging" the company. We'll see how it's turning out for these two in the years ahead.
PreSonus announced the immediate availability of its HD9 studio headphones. The manufacturer claims a clean sound, comfortability, and broad frequency response. Knowing PreSonus, these cans likely deliver!
New headphones, anyone? These are closed-back, on-ear cans driven by ATH's proprietary 45mm large-aperture drivers with rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils. Worth a look.
As Spotify is gearing up for an April 24 event, informed speculation arises that the music streaming giant is about to launch its first hardware device, reportedly an in-car controller or player.
The 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros didn't come off as convincing upgrades for musicians with reduced connectivity, somewhat gimmicky OLED touch bars, and price increases. Can Apple win them back?
With a friendly price, a wealth of musical apps and all the modern hardware needed to run them, the 9.7-inch Apple iPad is a more attractive purchase than ever. It's on sale now, starting at USD 329.
Audeze will implement Waves Nx 3D audio technology in Mobius, its 3D audio headphones. The set's built-in 360-degree head tracking and native support for Nx enables native Waves plug-in support.
Hailing from Sweden, MIND Music Labs introduced a Linux-based operating system - a MOS (Music Operating System) designed for low-latency audio, running on pretty much everything with a chip in it.
Retro Revolver - is a hardware dual compressor with a very interesting set of functionality and features. The machine started out as an experimental project way back in 2011, when a few prototype units...
The AMS Neve 1073SPX is an exact recreation of the 70s original, complete with matched components for a true-to-form sound including a Class-A mic preamp, along with the 3-band parametric equalizer...
