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Pump Up the Volume
Gadget Lab © reporters guild you through the wonderful world of music and reviews some items that will provide you with the best listening experience possible.
By Calvin Allen
Gadget Lab
The Logitech® Z-5500 offer serious wattage for your buck and they are impossibly versatile.
Photo Illustration: Calvin Allen
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The Toshiba Gigabeat S is a legit
contender with the iPod 60 gig, and manages to do more and
take up less space for the same price.
Photo Illustration: Calvin Allen
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If you are looking for a legit sound sound system that's features
are as good as its sound quality then Logitech® Z-5500 Digital
earlier speaker model still reigns. I had the pleasure of hooking
these bad-boys up in my apartment for a weekend and acquired my
first noise citation ever. The package delivers 500-watt 5.1 surround
sound speakers with a 10” sub kicking out 188 watts of bass.
The inputs hook into computers, MP3 players, gaming consoles, and
CD/DVD players. Since the package came out about a year you can
buy it for half the retail price giving serious quality for serious
value.
Toshiba Gigabeat S
With an endless litany of MP3 players claiming to be the best alternative
to the iPod, it’s hard to know which players are legit and
which are posers. Toshiba has managed to cook up the Gigabeat S,
a serious contender for the title. To begin, the GBS uses Windows-friendly
software, this means it will interface with Windows Media Play without
additional downloads. The GBS is also smaller, thinner, and lighter
and still manages to offer half an inch more of screen space. The
GBS does MP3s, video, photo, and radio. It can double as a 60 gig
hard drive on computers running a Windows OS and the video-out jack
allows you to watch downloaded movies on your TV. I found the controls
to be extremely intuitive and the organizational method more efficient
than iPod’s “never-ending scrolling” technique
when searching through long play lists. For those looking for something
different, I give the Gigabeat S the highest recommendation possible
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