Ever since we first started seeing gaming headphones with Dolby Atmos and DTS Headphone:X, I have felt the need for a pair of proper headphones for home theater use. With a real feeling of proper surround sound. Imagine. There you sit alone late at night, and all you want is to crank up the sound …
Philips may not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of premium earplugs, but they have made some really good products. The passive earbuds Fidelio S2 we named Budget plugs of the year in 2013, and the latest premium headphones Fidelio X3 are also very good, with a warm and inviting …
With the fully wireless Live Pro+ earbuds, JBL aims high with active noise reduction, and focuses on sound quality with powerful 11 mm drivers and long battery life. Most earplugs have 6 to 10 mm drivers, so these are rather big for earplugs. JBL Live Pro+ can look like a clone of Apple’s Airpods, with …
Finding a pair of good, wireless headphones with noise calcellation below GBP 130 has proven to be nearly impossible. Apart from the Sony WH-XB900N which has fallen so much in price. But now Urbanista has released a pair of wireless with noise reduction, which does not have a long list of meaningless numbers and letters …
Fortunately, completely new things are happening in the world of headphones. HEDDphone is an example of this, because you have probably never seen or heard of these before. When you thought you had seen all the ways to make headphones, German HEDD Audio comes in from the sidelines, takes one of the best speaker technologies …
You can wonder what they have been doing. While every conceivable manufacturer from any conceivable branch has long since launched at least one, preferably several completely wireless earplugs, Marshall has only had earplugs with a cord. Which in itself is not that stupid. If they fall out, they do not fall far, and with a …
Two years ago came Galaxy Buds, the first completely wireless earbuds from Samsung, which we thought sounded good. They were followed up last year by the somewhat disappointing Galaxy Buds Live. Fortunately, it turned out that they were just a parenthesis, and that the real successors to Buds are, of course, called the Samsung Galaxy …
When speaking of gaming headsets, this usually means large and heavy over-ear models. But there are exceptions. The EPOS GTW 270 Hybrid is the first completely wireless earbuds specifically for gaming I have seen. What makes the difference is the included USB-C dongle, that provides a lossless connection without the audio delay that is common …
American Audeze is especially known for its excellent hi-fi headphones. However, they have also made headsets for gaming, in the form of Audeze Mobius, which took us by storm – and to such an extent, so that it was awarded the best of the year in its category in 2019 by our Scandinavian sister magazines. …
They cost twice what market leader Sony should have for a pair of excellent WH-1000XM4s , which have been the reference for noise reduction. Apple’s first headphones, the AirPods Max, are actually so expensive that they can be safely compared to high-end headphones. Or can they? If the price is in the high-end layer, the …
As a subsidiary of Danish hearing aid manufacturer GN, Danish Jabra has had an easy access to knowledge about miniature electronics for the ear. This may be the reason why they have been quick to come up with completely wireless earplugs, which they now put out in a breathtaking number of models. We have recently …
It is normal to think that 400 euro is a lot of money for a pair of headphones. Especially when they are not even wireless, let alone have active noise cancelling. But even though I personally love headphones with good ANC, those are not the ones I use when I want to enjoy music for …
Technics EAH-AZ70W, possibly just the AZ70, is a more refined version of the Panasonic RZ-S500W. Among other things with larger 10 mm speaker elements, lined with graphene for lower distortion and more airy harmonics. Where Panasonic uses plastic, there is more aluminum on Technics. Otherwise, it is the same technology inside, as advanced active noise …
Beoplay E8 3.0 is Bang & Olufsen’s latest version of their completely wireless earbuds, which can also charge wirelessly. The problem with its predecessor was first and foremost that the wireless range was far too poor, and that wireless noise from other Bluetooth products negatively affected the E8 2.0. Both parts are fixed now. And …
Chinese Takstar are not so well known in our latitudes, but the price of less than 300 for a pair of plano magnetic headphones arouses a natural curiosity. Because they usually tend to have one more digit in the price. Planagnetic (or “planar”) headphones can be compared in both construction and sound to electrostatic headphones. …