We recently wrote on how to use media streamers around the home. Now we’ve found a great deal on one with CDiscount’s amazing 20% voucher code - which is valid only until 6pm today for this Sonos Bundle 150, down to £564.
In a move sure to infuriate the Daily Mail, the EU is proposing a limit on the maximum volume of portable music players.
While Disgruntled from Tunbridge Wells and their like are probably already sharpening their pencils to write to the editor, it is worth pointing out that this is only a proposal at the moment and what is proposed is only an overide-able default. So if you love your music really loud, you’ll can just switch the upper limit off.
The idea behind this new setting is a good one. Research has shown that as many as 1 in 10 people are risking hearing damage. Listening to your ipod at 80 decibels can cause this kind of damage when you listen for over 40 hours a week, but notch the volume just a little higher (to 89 decibels) and the damage begins after as little as four hours.
Younger people are particularly at risk of this kind of damage, according to Meglena Kuneva, EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner. This isn’t just because they tend to listen to more music at louder volumes, but also because they are generally unaware of the risks. By the time hearing damage starts to show, it is years too late to do anything to stop it.
A step ahead of the game, later this month Griffin are releasing MyPhones, headphones specially designed for children with a fixed upper volume limit of 80 decibels.
So what is a safe volume limit? Decibels are a bit of an abstract measure unless you’re an audio specialist, but this chart from Floorscan Acoustics, sound-proofing experts, should help you get a handle on different volume levels.
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More musical goodness with this DAB Denon DM37 Micro System deal - down from £300 to £200 at Superfi - and with Free Delivery and scoring 9 out of 10!
More Monday Musicality with this bargain Cowon I7 16GB MP3 Player, scoring 9.3 on the Reevoo scale and down from £132 to £115 at Purely Gadgets.
Need some quality music - lucky I found these half price Goldring GX200 In Ear Headphones - only £25 at Superfi. Time to get into some good Reevoo tunes!
Need some funky USB speakers, and got these Gear4 Blackbox Minis, down to £18 with FREE delivery from Play.com, that’s an amazing 64% off RRP! Great to take away camping this bank holiday weekend.
Today’s deal is on Sandisk Sansa Fuze 4GB mp3 player, down from RRP of £90 to £44!
Off to a festival in the next few months? Take a look at our festival survival gadgets to make sure you avoid all the usual festival pitfalls.
Don’t lose your tent or your friends this year, use Google Maps with Latitude to keep track of both. Go for 
the popular Nokia N97 or the new Apple iPhone 3G S and, while you’re at it, download the Shazam app which will recognise a tune within a few notes and then helpfully take you to iTunes to purchase the track.
Grab yourself a wind-up charger too, to make sure your mobile never runs out.
If you’re after a festival-proof camera, the Olympus MJU 1050 is tough, waterproof and shockproof so it should last the summer. It’s 12x digital zoom and 30fps video capture mode will keep your festival memories for ever. Owners love this camera and it receives a score of 8.6/10 with one reviewer labelling it “virtually indestructible”.
Going to the loo is a mission at festivals but there’s no need to miss out on all the action while you’re in the queue. This Roberts Solar DAB radio is, as the name suggests, solar powered, so running out of batteries is not an option. It’s rated 8.9/10 by very impressed owners.
After the artists have finished, the music doesn’t have to stop with the Sony NWZ-A816 Walkman which scooped gold in the Reevoo Customer Choice Awards earlier this year and scores 9.3/10. But if you want to share your music, go for the iMode Boombox dock which is rugged and a steal at only £25.
If you have to queue for the loo, at least avoid queuing for the shower. Take the Super Solar Shower in a bag and have a leisurely soak under a branch at your convenience. It can be refilled time and time again and the solar panel will heat the water. An absolute bargain at just £5!
Finally, a festival kit bag wouldn’t be complete without a wind-up head torch. £15 will get you the Uni-Com wind up head torch – hours of fun without running out of batteries.
With the sun at last seeming to be showing signs of being here to stay, we thought it would be a good time to highlight some MP3 players that you’ll be able to take with you as you enjoy various sporty activities.
To be a truely go-anywhere MP3 player, the most vital feature is that the memory - where the songs are stored - is a solid state flash drive, rather than than a hard disk. If you’ve ever tried to go jogging with a hard drive-based MP3 player, like an iPod Classic, you’ll know that it doesn’t take long before skipping becomes a problem. Flash-based memory is a lot more durable, but the disadvantage is that it costs more per megabyte, so storage sizes tend to be between 2 and 32 GB. For the active listener that’s a trade-off that’s worth making. Check out the Sony NWZS639F or Apple’s new iPod Nano.
Another key item for allowing you to get on with your run without worrying about your MP3 player is a clip so you don’t need to bother having the device knocking around in your pocket. And of course the smaller the better. The Apple iPod Shuffle is very compact, with a durable clip built into the aluminium body. The latest model is voice activated too, making it easier to control on the go.
Or for true comfort on the go, take a look at this wearable MP3 player/headphones combination from Sony:
Depending on what your favourite activities are, you might also want to look out for a waterproof model. You probably wouldn’t want to go swimming, but from mountain biking to waterfights, it’s as well to be prepared. Swimsuit specialists Speedo have entered into the MP3 player market with their Aquabeat Waterproof MP3 player, or you could try SwiMP3 player (geddit?).
Whatever you’re up to this summer, there’s no reason you won’t be able to bring your favourite music with you!
All week we’ve been running Reevoo’s first ever giveaway. We’ve got one model of the extremely hard to get hold off Tesco Hifi - voted ‘Britain’s Best Hifi‘ in the recent Reevoo Customer Choice Awards.
We’ve had lots of great entries on Twitter, but we reckon the prize should go to the person who went the extra mile and sent us a picture to show us why he needed a hifi so badly.
@reevoo I need to #winahifi because I’m a poor student currently stuck with this tiny little speaker — jamesctaylor
Well James, we’re happy to be able to help out a poor student, with - brace yourself - Britain’s best-rated hifi!
And if that wasn’t enough, we’re also going to throw in a copy of the White Lies album, To Lose My Life.
James, if you let us have your address we’ll send through the hifi, and you can look forward to having to make some room on your bookshelves for this:
Look out for more Reevoo giveaways coming soon!
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