Gadgetoid

gadg-et-oid [gaj-it-oid]

-adjective

1. having the characteristics or form of a gadget;
resembling a mechanical contrivance or device.

Archive for October, 2007

Two Worlds in Top 10!?

Okay, so I don’t keep an eye on the charts so I have only myself to blame but nobody but me could be more surprised that Two Worlds make the Xbox 360 Top 10 for a solid month. This can…

Sennheiser HD215 Headphones Review

We took a look at the Sennheiser HD215 closed-back headphones back in June, without further ado here’s what we thought. The Sennheiser HD215 headphones are fantastic DJ, home-studio or music listening headphones at an even more fantastic budget price. As…

Terratec AXON AX100 MKII

The Terratec AXON MKII guitar to MIDI controller arrived at the desks of Gadgetoid yesterday. I spent some time testing it with an integrated pickup guitar and to my surprise immediately hit pickup issues. I suppose out-of-the-box justification was a…

Denon SMART S-302 Wi-fi Network Home Cinema

“No AV system on the market, even hugely expensive Scandinavian and American ones have this level of technology or audio/video performance.” It’s a bold claim, but it might just be entirely correct. On paper alone the SMART S-302 from Denon…

Blue Snowpack

Blue have bundled the Blue Snowball USB Microphone, a set of USB headphones, a stand and recording software together into the Blue Snowpack. It looks set to be an incredibly good value and easy to use portable recording kit, the…

Korg Pa2X Pro

The Korg Pa2X Pro looks truly awe inspiring, borrows some design cues from the flagship Oasys (namely the tilting touch screen goodness which I can only dream of having on my Fantom X8), is packed with features and at £2,349…

Limited Edition “Black” microKORG

If you’ve been eying the cute but powerful little microKORG for a while then this might be the deciding factor. This strangely alluring inverted-key limited edition version of the microKORG will not only produce the epic vocoded synth sound that…

Let the Kaos Begin

As a long time fan of nifty control surfaces like Rolands “Time-Trip Pad” and those on the Korg Kaos Pad and its smaller brother I am more than a little surprised and gleeful to find that Korg have created another…

Sennheiser HD-280 Pro

Over the past couple of weeks I have been playing with the Sennheiser HD280 Pro Headphones. These are some fairly heavy duty professional monitor headphones offering reasonable attenuation of background noise and a very visually uninspiring brick-outhouse build quality that…

D.I.Y. Keyboard Stand

After much searching for an ‘official’ way of mounting a keyboard above another on a desk I eventually all but gave up. Fortunately Homebase came to the rescue with a couple of heavy-duty tool-shed hooks designed to carry a miscellany…