Roland just started shipping the AC-33 Acoustic Chorus Guitar Amplifier. This cool gadget is world’s first battery powered amp built specifically for acoustic guitar.

With a 30-watt amp and 5 inch speakers, you’re not going to rock Knebworth with this thing. But if you’re trying to impress the college girls at the local coffee house with your re-interpretation of “Your Body is a Wonderland” or if you’re staking out a corner in the local subway station, then this baby is for you.

It uses eight AAA batteries if you’re not plugged into the wall, weighs only 10 pounds, and carries a street price of $558.50. At that price, you’ll have to accumulate a fair number dollar bills dropped into your guitar case, but hey, can you really put a price on coffeeshop immortality?

The Altec Lansing inMotion Classic is an angular, powerful boombox made for the iPod and iPhone.

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Altec Lansing has a long history of producing some stellar little speaker systems designed around the iPod. Their latest portable speaker, the inMotion Classic, continues the company’s tradition of delivering quality audio in a compact and stylish design.

I’ve reviewed a number of Altec Lansing’s iPod speakers, including last year’s inMotion Max and im600, so I thought I had a pretty good idea what to expect from a seemingly basic, $149 speaker dock. I was wrong.

So far, my initial impressions of the inMotion Classic are excellent. For a budget-minded portable speaker that stands only 4 inches high and measures just 2 inches thick, this thing cranks. Sure, it’s not as thin as the im600, or as impressive-looking as the inMotion Max, but the engineers have juiced the two 3-inch speakers on the Classic for all they’re worth.

There are no EQ settings on the Classic, but the overall sound is crisp with a surprising amount of meat on the low end compared with other fold-flat speakers we’ve tested from Logitech and Griffin. …

I don’t know about you, but I, for one, am not very much into the audio devices that can be found in the shelves these days, even if I love music and there is no day to pass by without a song or two to make my ears feel spoiled.

So, if you are an audio freak and you want to be abreast of the latest apparitions in this area, then you’ll be thankful for the news I’m about to break to you: there’s a mega gadget available for you right now to help you own only one gadget (a big one, that’s true).

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The device is a mixture between a turntable, a cassette player and a cassette recorder also, a CD player and a CD recorder, and last, but not least, a PLL synthesized AM/FM stereo tuner. Believe it or not, you’ll find all the devices I mentioned within the Teac LP-R550, which has just been announced by the manufacturer. More than that, it is said to become available for the Japanese customers sometime by the end of July (July 30th is the date, to be more precise).

The CD unit, for example, comes with CD/CD-R/CD-RW support. As for the turntable, which has 3 speeds, has 33 (LP)/45(EP)/78(SP) support and auto return. In addition, there are 3.5×2 inch speakers and a remote control. The price is expected to be $750.

(Source: Coolest-Gadgets)