Category: Under The Hood
Lanikai’s • UkeSB USB-Equipped Ukulele
Enthusiasm for, and excitement about, various types of instruments tends to wax and wane, sometimes owing to larger music industry trends, sometimes attributable to a new technological innovation, and sometimes because other factors conspire to bring a particular product to the fore. There probably has been no bigger craze in the music products space over [...]
PRS Guitars’
2-Channel Custom Amplifier PRS Guitars, based in Stevensville MD and in business since 1985, has become known over the past nearly three decades—by retailers and players alike—for building some very cool, great-sounding electric, acoustic and bass guitars, as well as boutique-style guitar amplifiers. It’s renowned for its Private Stock guitar department and, in a similar [...]
Beyerdynamic’s TG 1000 Digital Wireless System
By Dan Ferrisi If you have any connection to the audio products industry, you’re almost guaranteed to be familiar with beyerdynamic, the family-owned audio equipment manufacturer, founded in 1924 and based in Heilbronn, Germany, that’s known for its headphones, microphones, wireless systems and more. Here in the United States, beyerdynamic products are distributed by American [...]
Asterope’s Premium Cables
By Dan Ferrisi In the music products industry, there are iconic, universally known brands that, in many cases, gain the lion’s share of the attention, both from trade journalists and, in some instances, even from the retail community. And, given the size and strength of, say, the electric guitar or drum markets, items that fall [...]
JBL’s PRX400 Passive Portable Speaker Series
By Dan Ferrisi One of the companies I’ve followed from the beginning of my career (with sister publication Sound & Communications) right up to the present here at The Music & Sound Retailer is JBL. The company’s clearly always been associated with innovative technology and high quality, covering a wide range of market segments. Although [...]
Under The Hood
By Dan Ferrisi Over the last three decades, HK Audio has built a solid reputation in the European market as a designer of sound reinforcement in stadiums and arenas; installation audio; compact PAs; and more. Recently, though, HK Audio engineers thought the time was right to push sound reinforcement to a new level. The existing [...]
Sennheiser’s Evolution 900 Series
By Michelle Loeb As recently as 1998, one could be excused for not associating Sennheiser with MI-style microphones. Today, however, the two are quite synonymous, thanks in part to the launch of the company’s evolution 900 series, which hit the market in 2003 in an effort to “complete the Sennheiser wired microphone portfolio,” explained Robb [...]
Chauvet’s Freedom Series
By Dan Ferrisi The word “freedom” is among the most powerful in the English language, calling to mind philosophical principles of liberty and the very human desire to be unchained; however, less lofty but just as meaningful, it also refers to the idea of mobility and being able to roam about without having to be [...]
Peavey’s AT-200 Guitar
By Dan Ferrisi At the most recent Winter NAMM show, dozens of press conferences touted a near-countless number of music product innovations that are sure to ring retailers’ registers for many months—perhaps years!—to come. In this writer’s eyes, though, no NAMM press conference was more impressive, and no product more attention grabbing, than Peavey’s showcasing [...]
DJ Tech’s SL1300 MK6 Turntable
By Dan Ferrisi One of the reasons—in addition to the camaraderie and passion that infuse the music products business—that all of us in this community are lucky is that the music industry, perhaps more than any other, exudes that “cool” factor. There just aren’t many things cooler than electric guitars, pounding drums and rock ‘n’ [...]
