JBL One Series 104 Speakers

When your working life or even your social life revolves around sitting in front of a screen for hours, you deserve to have some decent speakers. The 104 speakers from JBL One series are compact powered desktop monitors. Created with the mission to give content creators the ability to hear all the details in their audio for better control while mixing and editing, they have drawn on seven decades of JBL professional engineering experience to achieve this.

Earin M-2

Earin is a Swedish based company that take audio seriously, they were one of the first companies to produce truly wireless headphones after a successful Kickstarter project way back in 2016 which is about 50 years in gadget time. At first look the Earin M-2 appears to have the same level of quality and class as their older brother, these small but mighty earbuds are wonderfully light that you could be forgiven for thinking you weren’t even wearing them.

Como Amico and Amica

The Amico, meaning “friend” in Italian, is a portable music system based around the Como Solo with with some added extras, including a real teak wood veneer for weather resistance, a nearly ½” marine-grade plywood substrate for additional moisture protection and a slip-resistant bottom silicone pad. The 2200mAh rechargeable LI-ion battery will give you up to 8 hours of play time whilst the included 100-240V external power supply is ready to keep the party going if you do run out of juice.

Sonicsmith Squaver P1+ Audio Controlled Synth

The Squaver P1+ from Sonicsmith is a semi-modular, audio-controlled analog synth pedal, this single-oscillator, three-voice monophonic audio-controlled synth (ACS) is the closest you can get between the performer’s instrument/voice to analog synth sound. This “+” version expands on the former Squaver P1 by giving it a variable gate, wider sweep PWM and a smoother ENV, it expresses the instrumentalists’ performance to an analog synthesizer according to its frequency, amplitude and articulation.

Hidizs AP80

Ever since the birth of the iPhone people have sent their MP3 players to retire in the dresser drawer and turned to their phones as a primary place of storing music, however as phones get bigger and bigger, music files taking up so much space and poor audio quality means there is certainly still a place for MP3 players on the market. The Hidizs AP80 is a Hi-Res music player with Bluetooth connectivity in a durable compact design, the Ess flagship ES9218P DAC chip delivers an SNR of up to 126dB and THD+N down to -113dB to capture fine details within the mus

1More Stylish True Wireless In-Ear headphones

My partner for reasons best known to himself still insists on running and working out with wired headphones, these often end up threaded through sleeves in various configurations and even gave him friction burn on his chest after a recent long run. When the 1More Stylish earphones arrived I practically stuffed them in his ears to show him there is a better way. These earphones come in Black, Gold, Green and Pink with a compact matching charging case which will boost the 6.5 hours of play time up to 24 hours.

Zungle Viper

When the weather is glorious and you have a decent tune playing in your ears you can feel on top of the world, even when you are walking to somewhere hideous like the DVLA, the Viper sunglasses from Zungle cut out the cumbersome combination of headphones and sunglasses or earphones with their dangling wires by turning the sunglasses themselves in headphones. The Viper uses bone conduction and Bluetooth to allow you to listen to your music wirelessly but at the same time keeps you connected to the world around you.