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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by hostgator hey what is going on everybody and welcome to ask the buffalo technobuffalo on revision3 i'm noah kravitz sitting in one more time for John renser who is on his way back from Europe over there gallivanting and while working hard but gallivanting a little bit of help covering Aoife IFA the big consumer electronics show over in berlin germany with some of the other rev3 folks hopefully you caught john's youtube live show with soldierknowsbest and cali from geek beat TV if not check that out for sure and looking forward to doing some more of those things with the other rev3 folks this nice to be in the family anyway John on his way back to the United States so he will be back for ask the Buffalo next week so far as I know but in the meantime I would have been having fun sitting in so thanks for having me I'm gonna go out on a limb here say Who lesbi who wants to know I know it can you tell me what the best pair of headphones are for around sixty to eighty dollars good question i'm a music fan I'm a drummer or back in a previous life was it driven oh I still am I just don't play as much as I used to get back to that but I listen to music all the time I use earphones all the time also for work for editing video on the go that kind of stuff I'm a big fan of in the ER type earphones or canal phones as they're called and this is one of my favorite pairs this from a company called etymotic said amota cree search and it's actually 20 I was turned onto etymotic years and years ago I was in a bookstore in New York City in Brooklyn where I used to live and as the checkout counter opinion for whatever I was buying and I had my headphones I guess I had my headphones like around my neck or sumptin and the guy behind the counter check me out was like are those the eddies you got to get the eddies man the eddies where it's at and I was like what's the eddies Eddie's etymotic research I love the automotix this is a pair from their new line neither the hf 3 which are a little more expensive but they're in the ear type they go right in your ear like that and they have a couple different types of ear tips you can use but you get a nice seal so you get lots of noise reduction you have to be careful if you're using them in public you know if you're out walking around you never want to use these things driving without walking around or something yell because they block out a lot of the outside noise naturally but it's great because you can focus on the sound they're great for error you know airplane travel commuting on the train that kind of stuff and they sound fantastic these are a little more expensive but they have some new lines that are compatible with Android as well as blackberry and and iphone smartphones and then they're older once the ER six and ER 6i these are a couple years old but if you can find them online and you can still they're fantastic you can get them in that sixty dollar range you were talking about great sound I like them because they were very kind of a even sound curve they're not like the super pumped up base although I believe it to the six I has a little bit of extra base if you want that but again a couple years older I think a great value in that sixty to eighty dollar price range you're talking about also clips the klipsch image I for I believe it is came out last year a little more towards the eighty dollar range but also a really good sound a little bit of a different fit I'm also compatible with smartphones really nice pair of earphones and then if you if you want the old style or yeah well they're old but they're still current the cans you know the ones that go over your ears I'm not as up on what's current but I do know i have an old pair of sennheisers that i still use i still really like sennheiser's make some some good bang for your buck ones even cheaper than that 60 other price point you're talking about mine were like thirty dollars or something lots of people swear by Sony's AKG makes some great ones as well audio-technica make some really good ones but I've had good luck with Sunrisers for whatever that's worth but lots of great companies making making good quality earphones and you can definitely get something good in that 68 other price range myself I like the etymotic and for over the ears I like doing that I like the sennheisers M Simon wants to know what are your thoughts on an HTC music player with beats audio so you know HTC bought a majority stake and Beats Audio not too long ago and just after that HP announced they were getting out of the webos hardware game although maybe they're back in I can't keep up with that anyway but HTC bought majority stake and Beats Audio a huge deal and talked about how they're going to incorporate Beats Audio in their upcoming devices so we already have a couple of reports couple of rumors going up going around about what might be the first to HTC phone so we're talking about phones not music players but phones to incorporate Beats Audio one might be a special edition of the sensation 4g which is a phone that in the u.s. is right now available on t-mobile and the other would be a new phone that's going under the codename runnymede both of these would come packaged with a pair of beats audio headphones probably the the solo which are the cans type as well as having some kind of Beats Audio technology in the phone itself as for an actual music player and not a phone so kind of like an ipod touch the original question actually referenced you know like an iPod touch that's an interesting question because at the same time we saw Samsung has some android based I they're called galaxy Wi-Fi and they're not phones they're kind of like the Galaxy S line of phones but without the phone capability so there you know Wi-Fi only more like an iPod touch sony just showed off a prototype of an android-based walkman again no phone they already have walkman phones you know their 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what do you think the next stop is for Apple HD TVs something else lots of rumors flying around and actually cover this a little bit in rumor roundup that aired last Friday about Apple getting into the TV business full force they've got the apple TV product annex econd generation a little set-top box they're still referring to it as a hobby they put out that first gen boxed and do all that well the second generation it's smaller it's cheaper it doesn't have a hard drive it's done much better for them and rumors flying around that they've been working on an actual HDTV with be basically Apple TV functionality baked into it but more sophisticated more powerful functionality than what's currently available and that they've also been working for a while I'm trying to get the TV studio's the network's the distribution partners everybody on board with a subscription-based TV plan basically they want to do to the TV industry what they've already done or help due to the music industry which is just disrupt the heck out of it all right that does it for this week's edition of ask the Buffalo again thank you to everybody for submitting your questions you can submit them over on the website you can do it via Twitter just use the hashtag ask the bee askt h-e-b for Buffalo next week John will be back and like I said John Key whats the apps and me back on rumor roundup again but thanks what let me sit at i like this show it's kind of fun to do thanks again to our friends at hostgator for sponsoring us thanks to reverie for having us thanks to all you for watching and until next time happy labor day if you're in the US or not hope you're well be safe and keep those questions coming to ask the beat till next time my name is Noah Kravitz thanks for watching bye bye