This season, give your favorite music lover a gift they’ll truly appreciate. Our experts have compiled a list of gifts for the music lover with some of the most high-quality, popular sound systems on the market. Present your opera aficionado with a speaker that allows them to hear the richness of a baritone’s deep bass voice and the clear high notes of a soprano. Alternatively, if your friend loves to blast their tunes,…
If you were feeling some FOMO after we posted our favorite albums that sound better on vinyl, you’re in luck. This is a great time to start a record collection, since we’re all definitely spending more time at home these days. And that means we have more opportunities to sit down and actually listen to records. But if you’re new to vinyl, it can be overwhelming when you think about where to…
In 2002, vinyl preservationist and historian Gary Freiberg designated August 12 as National Vinyl Record Day. He established the holiday on the anniversary of Thomas Edison inventing the phonograph in 1877. But beyond the historical significance of the day, he wanted to celebrate fond memories and good times. As Freiberg said, “The objective of Vinyl Record Day is to remember that, whatever we go through on a personal or national level, life…
Sonos Play:3 is the versatile, all-in-one player with big sound in a compact size. With three integrated speakers and three digital amps, PLAY:3 streams the music in your library, wirelessly in any room for wall-to-wall sound. Go vertical or horizontal. A new, cool feature with the new Sonos Play model is that you can now control the unit with free apps for your Android smartphone, iPhone or iPad. Raise or lower the…
Have you seen the latest speakers from Klipsch on our showroom floor? If not, you’re missing out on a bright spot—and I mean that literally. Abt is proud to carry the Klipsch LightSpeaker, a LED light and a high-quality loudspeaker all-in-one. The best part is that it installs like a light bulb (which makes for easily installation and uninstallation)! They fit into most 5″ and 6″ recessed lighting fixtures or can be…
Microsoft Zune is now available at Abt. It’s a 32 GB mp3 player with tons of features. It’s got a 3.3” scratch resistant, OLED touchscreen, HD radio, HD compatible video, web browser, Quickplay functionality, and it’s wireless. Zune will hold up to 8,000 songs, 10 hours of HD video from Zune Marketplace, 48 hours of video optimized for the device, or 25,000 pictures. It comes in two colors, either black or silver.…
This year’s CES brought a lot of really cool gadgets. One standout car audio product is the Sony DSX-S100. It is a stereo head unit that makes listening to an iPod on your car stereo a snap. If you’ve ever seen a car stereo’s faceplate slide down so you can put in a CD, the DSX-S100 works much the same. The face slides off the unit’s base and a tray comes out…
The Sonos S5 Zone player has arrived. This is a really cool innovation from Sonos. It’s a wireless, one-piece speaker system that works with an iPhone or iPod Touch. Unlike most docking stations, the S5 doesn’t require the iPhone or iPod Touch to be docked in the unit itself. Sonos took speaker systems to another level with the S5. Controlling the S5 is done from your iPhone or iPod Touch using a…
With a simple touch of your finger, wirelessly access all of the music in your house from Sonos’ multi-room music controller. Simply pick this remote up or touch the LCD screen and you are ready to play music all over your house—without running back and forth to your computer to change Internet radio stations or play-lists. The Sonos can play music stored on as many as 16 Macs, PCs, Network Attached Storage…
