PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring Alto Professional, Heil Sound & Logitech’s Ultimate Ears

New Products - June 4, 2012 Alto Professional TRUESONIC Wireless TS112W and TS115W Powered Loudspeakers » Heil Sound Pro Set 3 Headphones » Logitech’s Ultimate Ears Personal Reference Monitors » Today's Product Review Logitech's Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors By Strother Bullins Our increasingly mobile world has allowed audio production to escape the tethered confines of cozy studios (for better or for worse, many may argue). Thus the ‘on-the-go audio pro’ is indeed the new normal, well captured in print on Pro Audio Review’s January 2011 cover: our senior contributor Russ Long editing vocals via AVID Pro Tools 9 with only a Mac Book Pro, headphones, and an iLok at a Nashville-area coffee shop. Meanwhile, over the past six months, I have been living with a set of Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors, using them for audio production, live work and performance, as well as leisure listening. And, while I’ve worn molded earplugs for nearly 20 years now — Westone Labs custom earplugs with Etymotic Research ER-15 and ER-25 attenuator inserts, much like those PAR contributor Rob Tavaglione recently reviewed — I have hesitated to rely on either headphones or IEMs for judgment calls when it comes to recording projects I’ve been intimately involved in. That has all changed. More » Today's Blog It Takes Two Kinds By Rob Tavaglione Surely you've heard the saying, “There are two kinds of people in this world,” as it has been creatively applied to most any discipline, topic or argument one can think of. Does such divisiveness have a place in serious discussions? Can one’s behavior really be boiled down to two diametrically opposed opinions? Are there exactly two kinds of audio engineers, or audio engineering styles? Sure, probably, and course there are! More »

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