Marshall wants to turn your phone UP TO ELEVEN Fans of the Marshall look and sound can now carry it around in a smartphone. The iconic guitar amplifier outfit''s headphones division managed something that Apple hasn't: it's developed a smartphone without having it leaked to a fan-site. So the launch of the London smartphone managed to catch the world somewhat by surprise …
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But more like a music player you can also make a phone call with ? 600+ USD sounds like a lot of money for an Android music player...especially one with 16GB of memory, which seems decidedly poor for a player meant to carry FLAC.
It was probably a good idea in the pub after the fourth pint.
Nice to see the return of something that is designed to collect all the fluff from yer pocket and stop working after a while.
Who the fuck wants a mobe that is sold on the reputation of a guitar amp?
Especially as the amp's main benefit to humans is distortion - not fekking clarity!
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Then I humbly suggest you're doing it wrong.
Distortion, among other effects should be done away from the amp, in an effects board or pedals, and that sound fed into the amp which if it's any good, will replicate faithfully with clarity, presence and loudness. Much, much loudness. If the amp is clipping at high gain either it's a poo amp or you're poo at using it.
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@ Sir Sham Cad you obviously don't play electric guitar. Marshall has built its empire on building amps that distort. A guitar amp that acts like a hi-fi amp and dosen't distort will sound shite. Tube screamer pedals and the like overdrive the amp to produce even more distortion. If you have a good valve amp you don't need any distortion pedals.
@King Jack.
Not even electric guitar. Listen to the sound that Jon Lord used to get pushing his Hammond through a Marshall stack.
Mr Lord said that it took his techie many attempts to get the two to work together and blew himself up a few times in the process but the sound that Lord got out of that Marshall just tore the fabric of time and space apart.
Oh, sorry. Got all Hawkwind there for a moment...
@king jack
A guitar amp that doesn't distort will not necessarily sound shite. It depends on what tone you are looking for and there is a solid place in music for what we call clean tones. Fortunes have been paid for boutique amps to get loads of headroom.
But indeed, the reputation of a Marshall is the overdriven valve tone we associate with rock .
"hold their phones like a slice of pizza, while making calls,"
I used to (and still do) find that strange. Then I realised what they are doing. They are copying what they see on TV where an actor/presenter/reporter/whatever is using a phone in speaker-phone mode so the camera/microphone can pick up both sides of the conversation. A very weird thing to copy IMO. I often feel like joining in with these "public" conversations, but I've managed not to do it so far. It's no wonder kids have no sense of privacy when on the net anymore.
I saw someone the other day holding their phone in normal, up against the side of their head style. Nothing strange there I hear you say. Thing was, as I walked past them it was clear that the phone was in speaker-phone mode.
What seems really strange to me is the number of people I see, walking (on their own) down the street, having a conversation with a phone held in front of their face, in speaker-phone mode, so the whole world can hear both sides of their conversation. My only conclusion is that they somehow accidentally turned it on once, and haven't been able to switch it off.
"What seems really strange to me is the number of people I see, walking (on their own) down the street, having a conversation with a phone held in front of their face, in speaker-phone mode, so the whole world can hear both sides of their conversation. My only conclusion is that they somehow accidentally turned it on once, and haven't been able to switch it off."
Certainly possible, although I came to another conclusion: They are self-centered muppets who see the Dom Joly shouting at a giant phone as something to emulate rather than laugh at.
I'm also curious about the phone infront of the face thing.
Recently I did a bit of searching around online for answers and found one suggestion that it's to prevent transfer of make-up from face to phone. This seems reasonably plausible given that I only recall observing females doing this. They could all have been Chinese from what I remember - is it something that originated there?
Given that when you see them they're in the middle of a conversation it's not the kind of thing you can stop and ask someone about. Maybe I could follow people and wait until they get off the phone then ask them. Too weird? OK, I'll stick to speculating about it on the Internet.
Looking at the pics on their website, there appears to be a de-branded iRig and guitar plugged into one:
https://www.marshallheadphones.com/media/wysiwyg/Marshall/phonepages/product/960x490-loopstack.jpg
So what we have here is another phone meant for music lovers, but as usual they replace the basic parts for Marketing Snake Oil, what this thing needed was either a BurBrown D to A Converter and or Digital Optical output, then it could be used as a transport for your music.
Apple had been putting these in their laptops and Ethernet Express docks for years, I have no idea why they did not put them into their phones, YET!. So far, everyone had calmed that bit-rate is the answer but its all about Mastering of the records and nothing to do with bit rates at all. NEXT! ps it dose look good though.
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