Tag: music

Gift Tech Gift Ideas for Christmas that Won’t Hurt Your Wallet

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Gift Tech Gift Ideas for Christmas that Won’t Hurt Your Wallet

  Christmas is the season of eggnog, decorating trees, family and friends, delicious turkey, and, of course, gift giving. The stats on the latter are something to behold. On average, American retailers will pull in roughly $1 trillion from the holiday season alone, with each person expected to buy 15 gifts or more during the month of December. That’s about $419 dollars each! But in a time when Americans hold the greatest amount of individual debt in U.S. history, it’s okay to be a bit of a penny pincher at…

The End of the 3.5mm Headphone Jack? – The Science and Future of Audio Connectivity

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The End of the 3.5mm Headphone Jack? – The Science and Future of Audio Connectivity

Despite the moans and groans of music and podcast enthusiasts worldwide, we may very well be in an era that marks the end of the 3.5mm headphone jack. With announcements from the latest generation of smartphones, from the Essential to Google’s Pixel and even the iPhone, that are no longer going to ship with a 3.5mm audio input, consumers are now faced with a choice. They can either stay with older technology or take what feels like a significant leap out of their comfort zone and transition to using headphones…

IPX Waterproofing and What It Means for Your Wireless Speakers

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IPX Waterproofing and What It Means for Your Wireless Speakers

It’s a beautiful long weekend and you’ve decided to join your friends up at a cottage, nestled in the back country, on the edge of a gleaming lake. Immediately upon arriving, you all decide to test out the waters, a cold shock to the system before a long night of camp fires, drinks, and merriment. Before jumping in, someone sets up a Bluetooth, water resistant speaker connected to their cellphone and favorite streaming service. And splash! With a less than graceful cannonball, water spills onto all the electronics left on…

Keeping Your Speakers Happy and Healthy – A Few Tips for Testing and Improving Audio Quality

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Keeping Your Speakers Happy and Healthy – A Few Tips for Testing and Improving Audio Quality

  When you’re buying a new speaker set, ensuring audio quality is important. We’ve talked in previous posts how speaker build and materials can greatly impact the sound that will ultimately fill a room, but there are a number of other pro tips you can follow to both test and improve audio quality. Let’s dive right in.   Testing: Connectivity   Starting with the basics – you want to be sure connectivity between speakers and player is strong and uninterrupted. This is especially true for wireless and Bluetooth systems. There…

Had Enough of Just Listening to Music? Here are Six Other Ways You Can Use Your Wireless Speakers

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Had Enough of Just Listening to Music? Here are Six Other Ways You Can Use Your Wireless Speakers

When we think of “wireless speakers,” it drums up ideas of listening to your favorite music, podcasts, radio station, or audio book in places unreachable by their wired cousins. They bring the freedom to roam, like we do now with a cellphone, a streaming service, and a pair of great headphones. But wireless speakers have a host of other exciting and interesting uses beyond just static audio listening. And don’t worry, we’ve got your back – presented below are six unexpected opportunities to leverage the power of your wireless speakers…

Top 10 Science-Backed Reasons Why Listening to Music is Great for Your Health

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Top 10 Science-Backed Reasons Why Listening to Music is Great for Your Health

Music is core to the definition of human history – every culture, from every epoch, has had some form of significant system of rhythmic sounds that form the basis of song. Some scientists have even claimed that music, like mathematics, is actually a universal language, claiming that we humans may even have a natural musical sense embedded in our DNA. Thanks to modern advances in technology, including VAVA audio equipment and headphones, we can now easily tap into that part of ourselves anywhere, at any time.   But why should…

Focus On – 5 Reasons Why the VAVA VOOM 21 is Better than Your Bluetooth Speaker

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Focus On – 5 Reasons Why the VAVA VOOM 21 is Better than Your Bluetooth Speaker

If you thought that a higher price tag unconditionally equals a better Bluetooth speaker, you could not be more wrong. Featuring solid hardware, an array of convenient, built-in features, and allowing the users to fully customize the audio experience to their liking, the award-winning VAVA VOOM 21 Wireless Speaker sets itself as a valid option for those who seek best in class audio quality while trying not to drain their bank account. Read on and learn why the VAVA VOOM 21 Wireless Speaker provides better audio, more extensive functionalities, and…

VAVA Shares “Thank You” Notes To People All Over The United States

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VAVA Shares “Thank You” Notes To People All Over The United States

  The end of the year is all about warm fuzzy feelings and showing appreciation to ones we love. That’s why we decided to put a twist on last month’s speaker giveaway – asking people to nominate ANOTHER music fan to win the VAVA Voom 20! The rules were simple: tell us why you’re thankful for the nominee, and tell us what song reminds you of them. So many great responses poured in from all over the United States. Of course it wouldn’t be a VAVA giveaway without some music…

VAVA Nation’s Back To School Special

Kathy Nguyen
VAVA Nation’s Back To School Special

School’s In! The schoolyard was one of the best places to discover your creativity, meet your future bandmates, and find your purpose in life. Or what I remembered it as – the land of awkward puberty and bad lunches. All joking aside, hopefully most of us can look back on it with an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia that made Pokemon Go and boyband reunions the best things to happen in 2016. In this VAVA Nation special, members of the dance and music community shared their most memorable moments of going…

B-Boy Vincanity: Teaching the World to Dance

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B-Boy Vincanity: Teaching the World to Dance

B-boying, or more commonly known as breakdancing, is the hip-hop dance filled with crazy flips, tricks, and poses that has made its mark in society.  It’s become a rather popular art form as seen in recent dance shows and movies showing off the style.  And no one else felt the effects of the rise and fall of breakdancing than Vince Horiuchi, or better known to the dance community as b-boy Vincanity. A Sacramento native, Vince started dancing after he learned martial arts and saw his friends breakdance growing up.  From…