RSSPocket-sized music player / mixer to make North American debut
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published January 7, 2009, 12:16 AM
LAS VEGAS - This week's CES show will mark the North American rollout of a handheld device billed as the world's first pocket-sized DJ system.
Tonium's Pacemaker is not just a portable music player but a portable mixer, said Anders Friman, Tonium's CEO, speaking with BetaNews at Tuesday night's CES Unveiled press event in Las Vegas.
Already available in Europe and Asia, Pacemaker will be seen (and heard) publicly in North America for the first time at CES 2009. The handheld device contains buttons for sophisticated control of playback, cue, equalizer, volume, and audio effects.
Professional and amateur DJs can reverse the playback direction, increase or decrease music speed by 100 percent, and implement audio effects such as reverb, echo, delay, and roll, for instance.
What? No S/N or dynamic range figures?
Oh wait! What was I thinking!?
The addition of a pot for volume, a variable cap and inductor for EQ, and an EPROM with advanced(sic) FX algorithms! Like I want to listen to MP3s with REVERB, ECHO, and DELAY!??????? LOL!
This device is for "Professional and amateur DJs" using MP3s! Such stats are meaningless as they are already near the noise floor with the highly compressed source material as it is at inception! (And fanboys, learn what is meant by 'compression' before you start in with how many bit resolution your low-fi sources employ!)
Yup, this thing should fly off the shelves! I am surprised they didn't release this thing with address tags already stuck to it for drop shipping!
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