It's what HiFi has become - the Nokia MD-7W

[slitchfield]

Guest writer Nick Anstee is pleasantly surprised by the audio quality from Nokia's latest Bluetooth accessory - the pair of MD-7W speakers. Here's his full review. We hope you're enjoying seeing Nick's writings - if you have acquired something interesting that you'd like to vent about in a formal review, do get in touch!

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[davidmaxwaterma]

With that kind of kit (the stuff *under* the Nokia gear), I guess we can't accuse you of not having decent kit to which to compare.

On a serious note, I have a pair of HS-96W, and I use them with my E90. My hearing is far from perfect, but I find that the sound is quite bass heavy. In the music player application, I have to use the graphic equaliser to raise the treble. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only application that has a graphics equaliser, and the others still sound pretty terrible. This isn't a reflection on the headphones themselves, since they might sound fine to someone with normal hearing, but the applications should all have a graphic equaliser, IMO.

How much does this cutey costs?

[snoyt]

Parrot has some nice bluetooth speaker solutions too. I had a chance to play with a parrot party (love the black version) and it got reasonable sound and volume with a rechargable LiIon batterypack. Pity you can't charge the phone from it. Still nothing beats a A2DP gateway to your stereo ;^)

Hi,

but how to use A2DP speakers or headset for playing music form the laptop? Windows XP does not support natively (one of the fiew advantages of Vista?), anybody has ideas on where to get decent sw/drivers to enable A2DP playback?

[malerocks]

Just a couple of quick queries:

1) If this runs on AA batteries, what is the charger for?
2) Since there is a 3.5 mm connector, I assume you can also connect these to phones without bluetooth (or without A2DP)

[malerocks]

Originally Posted by unregistered

Hi,

but how to use A2DP speakers or headset for playing music form the laptop? Windows XP does not support natively (one of the fiew advantages of Vista?), anybody has ideas on where to get decent sw/drivers to enable A2DP playback?

Try installing BlueSoheil. That should work with XP.

[jah]

I prefer analogue, reggae never sounds right on CD/digital

[NickAnstee]

1) The Nokia charger provides an alternative power supply to running the speakers on batteries, you cannot use it to charge rechargeable batteries.
2) Yes you can connect the speakers to any device with a 3.5mm audio jack.
3) The hifi is AVI Hifi, check it out at www.avihifi.co.uk and the turntable is from www.michell-engineering.co.uk. The stand I had custom made in Dubai.