Category — Speakers

Aside from a few improvements, and some direct hardware support, the new release for Serato isn’t anything major. Here’s a snippet from the ScratchLive site:

Thursday 22nd May 2008. Auckland New Zealand.

Serato Audio Research is pleased to announce the release of Scratch LIVE 1.8.1.
This is primarily a maintenance release to improve performance and stability and also introduces support for the following 3rd party controllers:

Denon HC-4500
Denon HD-2500
Numark DMC2

Scratch LIVE 1.8.1 includes changes and improvements to the following areas:

USB performance
iTunes Library support
External Midi control
Offline Player
Deck and playback controls
Library Crates and Tracklist
Preferences and setup options
Video-SL integration

Go here to see the full list of changes.

I’m kind of digging the design on this iPod Phonefone speaker made by Science & Sons. The really interesting thing about the piece is that it uses no power, but instead it “exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels”, which sadly is rather low, or about the equivalent of the volume on a laptop.  I was ready to get one for my desk, but then I saw the $500 pricetag…sigh.

Buy one here.