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Cool Stuff 2002: Music

December 3, 2001 12:00 PM ET

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Mazda MP3

Manufacturer: Mazda Motor Corp., Hiroshima, Japan

Web Site: www.mazda.com

Price: $18,500

You may think this is just a car; we prefer to call it the world's largest and most elaborate MP3 music player. It's a special version of Mazda's Protege (not to be confused with Toshiba's Portege laptops) that's been tricked out with a performance-tuned suspension, custom 17-in. alloy wheels with tires rated for 168 miles per hour, a leather-covered steering wheel and drilled aluminum foot pedals.


But what about the tunes? Where's the music, the MP3? That's taken care of by Tokyo-based Kenwood Corp.'s 280-watt eXcelon MP3/CD sound system with a trunk-mounted subwoofer. The CD player can handle regular audio CDs and those with MP3 music files, meaning you can stuff a whole day's worth of nonstop listening on a single CD. Road trip, anyone?









Bose Wave/PC Interactive Audio System

Music used to be simple and straightforward; either you made it yourself, you listened to it on the radio or you bought a recording and played it on a stereo or boombox. But the Internet has added new media and complicated the issue. MP3 files and Web radio are important new music sources, and you can now buy and download music over the Internet. But most of us don't have PCs in our living rooms, so how do we get that music to our stereos?


One easy answer is the Wave/PC, a device that gives seamless access to online and off-line music via Web radio, MP3 music files, CDs and AM or FM broadcast radio. The unit uses Bose's acoustic waveguide speaker technology to deliver rich sound from a relatively small enclosure, and it comes with a remote control and a 15-ft. cable to connect to your PC. Included software and six presets for each audio source help manage and organize your personal music collection, no matter what media it's stored on.









Bose Wave/PC Interactive Audio System

Manufacturer: Bose Corp., Framingham, Mass.

Web Site: www.bose.com

Price: $449













Mini CD/MP3 Player

For a take-anywhere, high-capacity MP3 player, this portable from TEAC will fill the bill nicely. It can play up to three and a half hours of MP3 music stored on a mini-CD disc that's just 80mm in diameter and holds 185MB. It will run for up to seven hours on two AA alkaline batteries and offers antishock protection, a preset digital equalizer and bass boost. The player includes earbuds from Old Lyme, Conn.-based Sennheiser Electronic Corp., Jukebox software from San Diego-based MusicMatch Inc., and an AC adapter.







Mini CD/MP3 Player

Manufacturer: TEAC America Inc., Montebello, Calif.

Web Site: www.teac.com

Price: $130










RipGo!

Designed to fit in the palm of your hand, Imation's RipGo! looks a lot like the TEAC below, an MP3 player that takes mini-CDs. Well, it also does more. It will burn those 80mm, 185MB mini-CDs too, making it the first mini-CD recorder on the market. For playback of digital music, the RipGo! handles both MP3 and Windows Media WMA files, squeezing as much as six hours of CD-quality music onto a single mini-CD.





RipGo!


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