The limited edition headphones are the first product to officially bear Miles Davis' name, authorized by Miles Davis Properties, LLC (the company that manages Davis' estate). They're also among Monster's most expensive ear buds, retailing at $499 (but can be ordered for $399 from monstercable.com).
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It's certainly a bold claim for in-ear headphones. Monster wasn't specific in explaining how the headphones can produce that kind of fidelity (or why they're worth twice as much as the already-pricey Turbines), but the company did mention use of new materials and a proprietary driver design.
We already showed you Monster's enormous table-top remote, but they're not out of new products yet. The Turbine Pros come at a $80 premium compared to their non-Pro counterparts and are plated in a very shiny gold material that will either elate or disgust your sense of style [The picture above is of the original Turbines]. They use a single dynamic driver, like the regular Turbines, but the internal layout is different and made from different, more expensive, materials. They will be officially on-sale next month, at which point you can check them out and see if they're worth the swap. As an added bonus, they should fit tips intended for Shure headphones, so all that research you've done trying to get the perfect fit for your canal won't go to waste.
Though it looks like it was ripped straight from the dashboard of a 1974 Chevy Nova, Monster's new AV50 remote control is an all-new piece of gear. The AV50 is a tabletop remote, designed to be plunked down on a flat surface near the couch and kept there, rather than constantly jumping between users' hands and the undersides of the couch cushions. .
Underneath the myriad backlit buttons, quaint compared to more expensive touchscreen remotes, lie some fairly sophisticated electronics. A web-based setup wizard and USB port lets users configure the remote through their computer, and customizable activities can be set to automate complicated home theater functions.
The price point is the most appealing aspect of the AV50. While most web-programmable remotes that support activity macros can cost over $100, Monster's new model can be purchased for a scant $50. It's not nearly as powerful or flexible as a Crestron remote that costs 10 times as much, but it might be a good solution for users who want a nice, big, stay-in-one-place remote but don't want to spend a lot of money. The AV50 ships in July.
— Will Greenwald
UPS. And I don't mean the guys in the brown trucks. I'm talking Uninterruptible Power Supply. When your AC goes black or brown, shutting down or sagging, it's just not a good thing. Electronic equipment hates it when that happens. To the rescue, Monster introduces the Monster Home Theater HTUPS 2700.
This an all-in-one solution for backup power, power conditioning, voltage regulation and surge protection. Housed in a trim 1-rack unit module, its internal battery provides 1 hour of back-up at 50 watts, or more with an optional external battery. It can keep a DVR recording for two hours during a blackout. In addition to providing backup power when needed, the HTUPS 2700 also incorporates surge protection, HD Clean Power noise filtration and voltage regulation. Among other things, the back-up power will preserve home theater settings, prevent data corruption on media servers, and prevent projector bulb damage.
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After three years of research and months of anticipation since these were announced at CES 2008 back in January, Monster's new headphones are here. And, well, they were worth the wait. Claimed to be the reference headphone for today's digital music, they do deliver.
Monster joined with Dr. Dre to design and tune these headphones to bring out the details in music that are typically lost in translation when listening over earbuds. We were able to give the Beats a listen, and honestly, they're quite good.
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File this one in the "Are you kidding me?" folder. Monster Cable is acting like Frankenstein's monster — out of control, and creating chaos in its wake. Monster Cable, maker of "high-end" audio and video cables and connectors is suing Monster Mini Golf for their use of the word, "Monster." Again, are you kidding me?
Don’t you hate it when people come over to your house and they get their grubby hands all over your perfectly clean touchscreens? Or if they grab your brand new iTouch and start. . . touching!!! I mean, you don’t know where their hands have been! At some point, they have gone to the bathroom, and do you want to face the bacterial Russian roulette of whether they did or didn’t wash? And let’s face it, no one want to catch Mad Cow from browsing their music collection.
Before you lock yourself away and start collecting jars of urine like Howard Hughes, invest in a bottle of Monster's newly formulated ScreenClean!
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