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Summing up Amelia’s day…

Flying high early in the day, then she refused a nap. Things pretty much got bad after that, and sounded like this:

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High end bookshelf speakers, for little money

One device I really enjoy is the Apple Airport Express, which lets you stream iTunes music, to remote speakers. The Airport Express gives you the ability to play music, wirelessly, anywhere in your house. Now, there are lots of speakers out there that have some fancy claim about being “MP3 speakers” or “iPod speakers”, and usually will do just about everything but your dishes, however, the actual sound quality of many of these speakers is pure audio torture. While I don’t think of myself as an audiophile (who has a spare $100k or more to drop on tube amps, and speakers with serial numbers that are lucky to be above double digits?) I do however appreciate good sound quality. Very few things in life can move someone like music can, and part of the musical experience is being able to reproduce the sound as close to live as possible. Read on for my review…

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