RE: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread André van Deventer
Sounds interesting. I'm trying to get an idea of size for myself. Would this be something you could actually carry along with you or not? Say for example with a netbook? I wouldn't listen to music on this but for the size for something like speech reproduction the sound is very good indeed.

RE: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread André van Deventer
-Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Bullis Sent: 14 November 2011 08:33 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker If you'll go to: http://robertcarter.posterous.com

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Matthew Bullis
If you'll go to: http://robertcarter.posterous.com/ you'll find the demo for download. Just so you know, this page takes about a minute to load up, for some reason. The audio demo is about ten minutes long, and as we've been discussing on this subject, he doesn't go through the updating process

RE: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread André van Deventer
Where can I see this review by Robert carter? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Blackwell Sent: 14 November 2011 01:21 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay, here's the situation. The "Live audio" update Robert discusses in his podcast is not a critical firmware update, that is to say Jambox will function quite nicely with or without it. I was aware of the "Live Audio" add-on and I will download it perhaps as soon as I get my head around the

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay thanks, I now have the review, had trouble reading the page on the other computer system I have here for some reason . Thanks again On 14/11/2011 11:26 AM, Gary King wrote: Dain, I'm sure there's information on the JamBox update page that tells how to invoke Live Audio Mode, but I fir

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Thanks for that, I had the link but couldn't get it to work at the time, this was 3 weeks ago and it may have been you who sent it to me. In the meantime? I can only speak from my experience so it will be most interesting to hear how another has got on with this. With my iPhone, the Jambox swit

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Gary King
Dain, I'm sure there's information on the JamBox update page that tells how to invoke Live Audio Mode, but I first heard about it by listening to Robert Carter's review at http://robertcarter.posterous.com/ Live Audio Mode only works when connected via Bluetooth. If the update is installed,

RE: computer speakers and suround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Hamit Campos
Ah okay then. I'l take a look at it in a bit. I've looked at some onkyo recevers to when I realized 7.1 might just be the way to go and Bose doesn't have any 7.1 systems . Some people just hate this, I don't think it'll be too long until they do it. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Right, well I've not heard that review yet and yes! I've been meaning to listen to it. On 14/11/2011, at 10:20 AM, Clifford Blackwell wrote: > In Robert Carter's review, he makes a point of demonstrating the difference > between normal mode and live or stereo mode. > - Original Message ---

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Clifford Blackwell
In Robert Carter's review, he makes a point of demonstrating the difference between normal mode and live or stereo mode. - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 3:36 PM Subject: Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth spe

Re: computer speakers and suround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Dane trethowan
If I could I'd get the Denon unit featured at Now I'd give you the model of the Yamaha unit i plan to get next year however the link to the model has changed s

computer speakers and surround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Rick Roderick
I am just correcgting the spelling of the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

RE: computer speakers and suround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Hamit Campos
What's the unit you would get if you could? What moddle are you getting so I can look it up? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:33 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subjec

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Who told you to hold both volume controls down? I've never heard of this before. I'm not saying your wrong. Up till now I've controlled my iPod from the unit itself. On 14/11/2011, at 5:43 AM, Gary King wrote: > Dain, > Did your JamBox come with the Live Audio update installed? The one I orde

Re: audio quality

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Whilst they're different compression methods FLAC and Apple Lossless pretty much amount to the same thing when used, that is to say that when music is compressed using either of these encoding methods, the end result is lossless. AAC/AAC+ is not lossless compression nor is it Apple Lossless comp

Re: computer speakers and suround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
For what they are they're not too bad, the one I'm buying is one of the "Pro" series they make but be warned! you pay! and in this case you don't pay too much, you should be able to get the one I'm referring to for under $1,000.00 and for a surround-sound receiver with its specs, works out quite

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Gary King
Dain, Did your JamBox come with the Live Audio update installed? The one I ordered from AMAZON.COM didn't. The first thing I tried after starting music on my iPod Touch was to hold both volume buttons down to start Live Audio Mode, but nothing happened. I then went to the web site and insta

Re: audio quality

2011-11-13 Thread Richard Claypool
I never knew who made apple flac, so misunderstood the message, thanks for the knowledge. -Original Message- From: David McLean Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 9:04 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: audio quality Apple lossless is ALAC. I've never seen anything encoded wi

RE: computer speakers and suround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Hamit Campos
How good are these Yamaha systems anyways Dain? I don't know if you want to call me on Skype to talk abiout them or E-mail me off list, but I've never heard anything from these guys, so I want to know how good they are. How theatrical they are. You see originally I wanted to use a Bose system, but

Re: audio quality

2011-11-13 Thread David McLean
Apple lossless is ALAC. I've never seen anything encoded with it however. On Nov 13, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Richard Claypool wrote: > my bad, I thought flac was apple lossless. > > -Original Message- From: Brent Harding > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:26 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion Lis

Re: audio quality

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
FLAC is a lossless format but nothing whatever to do with Apple, FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Coding, not exactly sure about the last word so I'm sure someone will correct me on that point. On 13/11/2011, at 11:37 PM, Richard Claypool wrote: > my bad, I thought flac was apple lossless.

Logitech portable iPod docks

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! Thinking of getting one of these things, anyone have one? Was talking to someone a couple of days ago who "raves" about his. They're a portable speaker unit with an iPod dock on the top, they run on either Power or rechargeable battery for 8 hours. To unsubscribe from this list, send a b

Re: audio quality

2011-11-13 Thread Richard Claypool
my bad, I thought flac was apple lossless. -Original Message- From: Brent Harding Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:26 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: audio quality Yes, but that could change now that Apple recently made it open source. I don't know what would make it an

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay well a couple of points I'd like to comment on. I know various people around the world who have them and who have tested the update software. Yep, it would appear to be a challenge for a blind person to use it would seem, the people I know have sight so they've used it and all report that

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Matthew Bullis
OK, well if you could let us know when you do get to that, if you do, as maybe some units, purchased from various sellers around the world, might not be selling the unit with the latest upgrades in. If I had the unit, I would go test this myself, but I need to wait until I get a bluetooth device

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
I haven't played much with that aspect of it yet. As I understand it there's no software upgrades available for it yet anyway so its not a terribly urgent issue for me, would be if something didn't work . On 13/11/2011, at 8:05 PM, Matthew Bullis wrote: > So how was it to navigate the web sit

Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Matthew Bullis
So how was it to navigate the web site to upgrade the firmware? Robert Carter mentioned that in his demonstration, and I'd like to know more about the web site challenges that you face when attempting to upgrade the machine. Thanks a lot. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank

Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi and thanks to those who provide me with valuable information on the Jawbone Jambox bluetooth speaker system You've heard it said I'm sure that the Jambox is an amazing piece of technology, I echo that statement without hesitation so if you're looking for a portable b

Re: computer speakers and suround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Dane Trethowan
Good idea, it will be interesting to see how the latest Yamaha surround-sound receiver I plan to buy next year goes, it has manual setting as far as I'm aware but by default you use a microphone. For example you sit in your favourite armchair once you've set the amp up and turn it on, the amp t

Re: computer speakers and suround sound

2011-11-13 Thread Gary Wood
Bryan! I do a test tone on my surround speakers from time to time, to be sure they're set right. - Original Message - From: "brian" To: Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:48 PM Subject: computer speakers and suround sound Hi this Brian Sackrider and I use bose computer speakers the