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Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk

Posted by samzenpus on from the hot-sounds dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple has released a voluntary recall announcement for the Beats Pill XL range of speakers, advising customers that the rechargeable device is a fire risk, and advising them to stop using the devices immediately. Apple bought the manufacturers out in 2014 after the successful release of the XL speaker range in November 2013. The announcement reads in part: "Because customer safety is the company’s top priority, Apple is asking customers to stop using their Beats Pill XL speakers. Customers who purchased a Beats Pill XL speaker should visit www.apple.com/support/beats-pillxl-recall for details about how to return their product to Apple, and how to receive an Apple Store credit or electronic payment of $325."

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  1. Already been burnt by the price by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody who pays $325 for a pair of speakers has already been burnt enough

    1. Re:Already been burnt by the price by HornWumpus · · Score: 3, Funny

      At least half of 'audiophiles' are just morons trying to impress each other with how much money they spend on garbage.

      I won't use the term anymore. 'Audiophiles' think LPs sound good, 4k$ is a reasonable price for a power cord and ceramic speaker wire hangers make the sound better.

      We need a new term for 'cluefull audiophile'.

      --
      John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
    2. Re:Already been burnt by the price by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hearing the difference now isn’t the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses
      lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. What this means is that for
      each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps,
      assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on
      SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don’t want to know how much
      worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

      I started
      collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I
      downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just
      sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrangewell don’t get me
      started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps.
      FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t
      stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you
      may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll
      be glad you did.

  2. Good news everyone! by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple has a replacement product: The Beats Suppository XS.