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Audio Reviews Are Big On Tiny Technology

There was a time when listening to some tunes was a simple affair. The choice was between turning on the radio and putting on a record. Things got really exciting when personal cassette players came on the scene, with the ever iconic Sony Walkman. Now it's all MP3 and Wav files, docks and ports, not to mention the now obsolete mini disc and the compact disk. More than ever we need the help of audio reviews to sort the wheat from the chaff and invest in our technology wisely, once we've chosen our musical medium.

The vast majority of music players available today are made to be portable devices that can be docked to a speaker system and give high quality music in any location. Dedicated players such as the iPod and Creative Zen have become phenomenally popular thanks to the new digital music revolution. Now that physical formats for music storage are actually built into a player, the ease of carrying around music has been massively improved. No vinyl, no discs and no cassettes; instead a mobile phone sized gadget that is capable of storing 4000 songs. Now that is a gadget we want to inspect.

The multimedia technology fills up pages of audio reviews, each one trying to discern the quality of one over the other. It seems to me that the nit-picking comes down to personal preference. The technology has been developed and refined to such a degree that it is hard to distinguish quality of sound between one device and another. Instead the audio reviews are judging players by the feel of the buttons, the icons on the screen and how the menu system works. All important stuff, but it's not really about the quality of the music though.

To hit this nail on the head, you need to find audio reviews that focus on speakers and docking systems. I have seen come crazy stuff available from novelty British bulldog speakers to full on, pull along a trolley PA systems. In fact, there was a curious case on the 11.45 from Brighton to London where some hardcore rave music was blasting out of somewhere, but the source was not discernable. Due to the fact that the sound was clear and big and loud, most people had suspected that British Rail had updated their tannoy system to play some good tunes on a Sunday.

It wasn't until we reached Croydon and two guys got up to leave that we were treated to an answer to the musical mystery. These guys had a huge speaker on wheels, not unlike a pull along suit case, and perched on top was an iPod nano. As they wandered down the platform, the music that had kept us amused faded into silence. It was the largest pod dock in history, I swear!

The point is that this system was fat, with a massive PH, and any music would have sounded superb whatever MP3 player was being used. It did make me laugh though; it was the digital equivalent of the boom box in the 1980s. As the technology reduces in size there is still a need to come up with a way of using it that is incredibly large. Audio reviews reflect this perfectly. The music medium has been reduced to binary code, and the players are easier to lose than your car key, probably because they are smaller. But there is always a demand for speaker systems that rival the old school style of DJ decks and underground party soundsystem, although there isn't a single review insight for anything other than digital music mediums.

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