headphones

What’s a DAC and why do you need one? Let’s take a peek at this popular product category.

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Wolverine Data Wireless Outdoor Speakers For your ever-changing music listening needs, Wolverine Data offers the WIOS-5.8. These outdoor speakers are portable and wireless, and use both standard 5.8GHz wireless and Bluetooth technology to crank out sound. The system uses a transmitter to deliver that sound to the speakers. If you have a clear line of […]

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Let’s assume you’re a finicky music listener. This means that, to your sensitive ears, the audio emanating from your smartphone or laptop ranges from barely tolerable to nails dragged across a blackboard. Why does your smartphone sound so poor (relatively speaking)? Because a smartphone is a Jack-of-all-trades and master of few, especially with high-quality music […]

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Updated. Originally published March 2014. There are a lot of smart things in this review. Unfortunately, I’m not one of them. In the case of this test I was probably the dumbest thing in the room. I’ve setup a number of smart home hubs (like this one and this one), programmed my own Control4 system […]

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The Big Ego and Little Ego DACs are designed to work with a home music system with a laptop or other digital sources.

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House of Marley Wireless Speakers Apparently, House of Marley wants to be jammin’ with the audiophile crowd. The company recently released One Foundation wireless speakers. This high-end option is obviously designed for discerning listeners—at least the ones with $1,000 to burn on a wireless Bluetooth speaker. However, this isn’t just some ordinary Bluetooth speaker. It’s […]

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Nothing motivates a workout quite like the right music. And whether you’re hitting the gym or running a marathon, if you want to take your tunes along you’ll need some headphones. But with all the available options, how do you find the right sport headphones for you? We’ve got a few simple (but important!) factors […]

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The wireless nature of Bluetooth in-ear earbuds might make them a super convenient way to listen to music, but they can suffer from both aural and functional issues. Sonically, just as the Genesis Effect in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn replaces a living planet’s ecosystem in favor of its own matrix, Bluetooth overlays an inferior codec called SBC (sub-band coding) over your compressed (or not) tunes, which degrades the sound. (Also, the aptX sonic solution to SBC only works with Android phones, not iPhone.) For the best functionality, you have to continually make sure your earphones are paired with your mobile device. Also,the earbud’s batteries barely last a day; you’ll get between six and 10 hours of listening.

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These four in-ear audiophile headphones are tailored to specific listening styles.

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The company’s audiophile headphones use Nanotechnology to produce a diaphragm that’s less than 0.001mm thin.

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