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Marshall – Built To Take with you On the Road

Are you on the lookout for the ideal speaker? Depending of course whether you’re looking for a portable solution or fixed. Well the iconic music brand Marshall has all the range that you seek. From earphone/headphones to speakers – you name it! I am a huge fan of Marshall speakers, for all those who are not really familiar with the Brand. I had discussed in my previous blog – but to give you a little recap and snippet. Marshall is an English Brand, founded by Jim Marshall who are heavily associated with larger speakers and amplifiers. With their success in the 70’s and 80’s Marshall now has been able to focus on home/portable speakers for our everyday use.

Who would have thought Marshall would ever have their own portable series. But with the successive launch of their portable series, it offers you a range of series depending on your budget. Their lowest segment in the portable series is the Stockwell II, a 25W speaker weighing only 1.38kg, packed with a solid punch irrespective of its pint-sized frame. Providing a multi-directional experience with Bluetooth and AUX connectivity, IPX4 rated speaker – meaning it is water resistant. The speaker enables you to customize your sound according to your music, with a top panel features analogue control knobs for bass, treble and volume. One key feature about the Stockwell II is it offers you Quick Charge – meaning in 20 minutes charge the speaker gives 6 hours of playtime (quick charge). The only speaker offering your quick charge feature.

The speaker just above the Stockwell II is the Kilburn II a 36W speaker giving you the same the features as the Stockwell II. The highest variant in the portable series of Marshall is the Tufton, an 80W speaker offering a multi-directional experience with Bluetooth and 3.5mm AUX connectivity, IPX4 rated speaker – meaning it is water resistant. The speaker enables you to customize your sound according to your music, with a top panel features analogue control knobs for bass, treble and volume. What differentiates the portable speakers from each other is the sound output and a few key features. Depending on what your budget and requirement is, you have the option to choose from the three portable series. Keeping in mind that all of them will give you upto 20hrs of playtime.

The Marshall portable series is the perfect companion to have along on a road trip, or even on a party/gathering with a your group of friends. The looks have not been compromised, as they wanted to retain the original look of the Marshall amplifiers and keep the retro look with the grills. Now you a retro looking speaker with all you modern touch that you need to enjoy your music.

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Marshall Welcomes a New Product to their Portable Series – Emberton

The Marshall Portable series has been expanding over the years, providing you the sound that you need to carry around while your on the move. Whether it be the Stockwell II, Kilburn II or the Tufton, have made a significant impact in the portable range of bluetooth speaker’s. We all know the brand itself stands out not only for it’s brand value, but of 50 years of sound and design expertise that has been distilled in each and every Marshall speaker. Bringing you the big stage home and giving you the sheer experience to your listening enjoyment.

For those who are travel lover’s and like something sturdy in hand, the Marshall portable series meets your need packed with a 20hrs of playtime, allowing you to for further and enjoy music for longer. Packed with the latest Bluetooth 5.0 and has an IPX2 water-resistant design, so it will be able to withstand little splashes of water. Along with a functionality of being app-enabled and multi-host feature, so you can easily connect and switch between two Bluetooth devices (Marshall).

With the new Marshall portable speaker - Emberton released just laster year is a much more compact portable speaker which can easily fit on your travel bag or anywhere you go. It utilizes the True Stereophonic technology, which is a unique form of multi-directional sound made by Marshall itself. Enabling the listener to enjoy and experience a complete 360º sound with a 20+hours of playtime.The Emberton might be remarkable small and compact, but do not doubt it for it’s size as it delivers a loud and vibrant sound. I guess by now you have an idea what kind of speaker to expect in your next purchase. Don’t wait up!

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What the benefits of owning a Hurom Slow Juicer?

Today everyone has become health conscious, where every third person either looks to lose weight, create a better and healthier lifestyle or more importantly consume the right food. Rather in today’s day time we are very dependable on processed food, and we enjoy it so much that we don’t see and understand the harm it is doing to our body in the long run.

Every morning when I step out for my morning run, I see young and older people gather around at the entrance of the park. Where there different healthy drinks that are being made or some prefer coconut water as it is indeed refreshing.

Now imagine if you had a juicer all-in-one meaning that makes delicious homemade juices, shakes, nut milk or even ice creams from variety of fruits and vegetables. Well, with the Hurom Slow Juicer, H-AA you can do all those things. Now one doesn’t need to cue or line up infront of Keventer’s to wait and pay for shake. Where as you can make one for yourself and still get a better result than what you would purchase from a restaurant.

One thing that makes the Hurom juicer so unique, is the “Rpm” (Rate Per Minute). Which I believe I had mentioned it in our previous article. In a normal juicer, the average rpm would be 70rpm to 3000rpm. Where as for Hurom, foresaw things differently and slowed it down. Now there is a reason why they reduced the rpm on their juicer’s, to perfectly capture the taste of nature in a cup of nutritious juice. Meaning without burning the number of calories or minimizing nutrition loss due to the heat exposure and oxidation, preserving the rich flavours and retaining the freshness of the ingredients.

If you’re a real juice lover and a health conscious individual, then I highly recommend you the Hurom H-AA , is a must have appliance which will meet all your needs and requirement.

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Bang & Olufsen is finally back!!

Bang & Olufsen, is a Danish company that was established in 1925 in Denmark. B&O was founded by two pioneers Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen. Peter and Svend started of their company by building and making radios back in the days. Peter Bang came a from an affluent and successful business oriented family. Bang showed a very early interest in radio technology, after graduating as an engineer. He worked for six months in the U.S. at a radio factory. Upon his return to Denmark, he joined and teamed up with his old friend Svend Olufsen and worked together at their attic. They officially started their business in 1925 where Bang was the engineer and mind behind the designs, and technology of the products, where as Svend Olufsen was the one who dealt with the development and growth of the business.

B&O started with making of radios, but with technology evolved so much over the years, so has the range and selection of products available from home speakers, multiroom speakers and portable series. They have also collaborated and entered an agreement with the automotive industry by providing an advanced sound system to cars such as the Audi, Aston Martin DBS, Rapide, BMW, Mercedes-Benz AMG and Ford as well.

B&O have a very distinctive design appeal and user-interface which are known to described as “quality media delivery via striking objects”. Most of the product names are prefixed with BEO for the names of it product lines.

B&O has finally made it’s way to India and is readily available with the range of products that they have to offer. Whether it be a purchase or a personalized demo, they are willing to offer the sound of luxury at the comfort of your residence.

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Unbelievable New Breed Sound – Small Revolution The Phantom Reactor

Devialet has come a long way since it was founded in 2007. They’re presence in the audio industry has truly made a mark, since the launch of the Phantom Gold – 4500W in 2015. Rated to be one of the world’s best wireless speaker’s, known for it’s egg like abstract shaped speaker – looking like a piece of art. As I had mentioned in my previous blog, the Phantom Gold is known for it ADH – Analog Digital Hybrid combining you with best of both worlds of analog and digital sound.

Over time the company has launched several speakers under the Phantom series, which have always been on the expensive side despite being rated the world’s best speaker.

In Oct. 2018, 3yrs after the launch of the Phantom Series. Devialet launched and unveiled their new series the Phantom Reactor as the company planned to penetrate a more approachable range of speakers in the market by launching a smaller version of the Phantom. There are two variants of the Phantom Reactor that comes in – Reactor 900 and Reactor 600 which produce a sound output of 900watts and 600watts starting at price of Rs. 129,000/-. Which according to Devialet standards, the speakers are both smaller and affordable.

So, what makes the Phantom Reactor speaker a so-called affordable speaker? Is it the level of technology that is packaged in one compact speaker or is it just claimed as an expensive speaker? Let’s find out!

Devialet Reactor: Design

As far the looks concerned, the inspiration of the design comes from the Phantom Series, it looks exactly the same but smaller. It looks like a futuristic speaker which weighs upto only three times less than the Phantom Gold and is almost ¼th the size of it. It comes in two colors, white and matte black. The compact speaker – The Reactor comes with a 3cm full-range aluminium driver in the front covered with the typical Devialet grill. At the same time providing you with ethernet port, power button and AUX port. Featuring five touch-sensitive buttons for play/pause, volume, Devialet app link button and Bluetooth button – the only Phantom speaker that has touch features. There is also a tiny LED light on the top where the different colors indicate different features while being used.

The speaker overall looks like a great improvement in terms of size as it’s a miniature version of the Gold Phantom. It’s a lot more compact, sleek and fits anywhere. For those who see the Reactor for the first time, it’s a definitely a visual treat to the eyes.

Devialet Reactor: Connectivity and Setup

Despite the Reactor’s futuristic look, the speaker comes packed with five connectivity options -- Bluetooth, Apple AirPlay, UPnP Renderer, AUX port, Wi-Fi and Ethernet. For the price tag the number of connectivity’s that are there, is a win for you. Though inspite being a wireless speaker, it is not Google Assistant or Alexa compatible. The operating system itself is unique and operates in it’s own way. But you never in the future if Devialet has it’s on AI speaker integrated in the Phantom.

The Phantom Reactor is compatible with the Devialet App that allows the user to control and connect the speaker, such as adding streaming apps, volume controls and more. The only thing that is missing is the equalizer settings, which if added would be a great personal touch for one to customize their tunes.

Devialet Reactor: Performance

What amazed me the most about the speaker, is the sound output. Despite the compact size of the speaker, it is almost impossible to believe that a speaker is able produce such powerful punch. The technologies that this compact speaker has are ACE Ô (Active Cospherical Engine), ADHÔ (Analog Digital Hybrid), HBIÔ (Heart Bass Implosion), SAMÔ (Speaker Active Matching) – are inventions the sound technologies of tomorrow. The speaker has two aluminium bass drivers and one full-range twitter drive. The speaker also comes with a wide range of codec support such as MP3, HE-ACC/AAC, lossless audio, WMA, WAB, FLAC, etc. With a total output of 900W at a frequency response rate of 18Hz to 21kHz.

Devialet Reactor: Verdict

Sound quality is a very personal touch, which will only depend till you hear one. It is no doubt one of the best speaker’s in the market. Some might agree and some might just find too pricey for it’s compact size. But do not judge a speaker by it’s size, for size doesn’t matter – and the Devialet Phantom Reactor has proven that. It is a loud and an excellent speaker which will fill your room and space. However, be ready to face the price tag.

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