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Meze Audio turns up the heat in the hotly-contested high-end headphone sector with the radical Empyrean, claiming the first ‘Isodynamic Hybrid Array Headphone’. Read our Meze Empyrean Review. Review: Ken Kessler Lab: Keith Howard For headphones. Ulp!… Meze Audio isn’t messing around with its assault on the state-of- the-art and, thankfully, its new Empyrean model goes … Read more
Bass? What’s that? CAN WE STOP and consider how aggressive this segment of the peripheral market is? The headset bracket is the marketplace into which almost every manufacturer wants to get its mitts. After all, most enthusiasts need a decent headset, and for those lacking the eardrums to be able to pick up the refinements … Read more
Building on the success of the popular 600 series, Neville Roberts auditions the latest headphone to join Sennheiser’s ranks. Read our HD 660 S Review. I remember some 20 years ago when Sennheiser first introduced the world to the HD 600 over-ear, open-back headphone. It was the debut model of the now legendary range, and this … Read more
Sennheiser HD 820 closed-back headphone by Alan Sircom Sennheiser’s HD 800 series is ever-expanding. It began with the original HD 800 almost a decade ago. That model is still on sale, but a few years ago, the company launched an HD 800 S model with a more subtle and softer top-end, in part seen as … Read more
1More Triple Driver BT wireless noise-cancelling in-ear headphone. Read our 1More Triple Driver BT Review. FOLLOWING APPLE’S MOVE to drop the headphone jack from the iPhone and the news that Samsung will follow suit with its flagship Galaxy models in 2019, the portable headphone market has gone wireless crazy. Like many brands, 1More has been quick to … Read more
Gaming headsets are a section of the headphone market that most people probably ignore, precisely because they’re called gaming headsets. But if you use headphones to appreciate music, enjoy videos and listen to the radio without disturbing others, and you also use the device they’re plugged into (whether a PC, tablet or phone) for audio … Read more
Sony’s best noise-cancelling headphones just got (slightly) better The one thing that’s truly surprising about the new Sony WH-1000XM3 it’s that they’re entirely consistent with what Sony has released in the last two years in the form of the WH-1000XM2 and MDR-1000X. To wit, they’re a noise-cancelling pair of headphones that can beat anything Bose … Read more
Ed Selley happily makes space for one more pair of Bluetooth headphones… GIVEN THAT EVERY headphone company going has been releasing Bluetooth headphones like mad, you might think we don’t really need any more new arrivals. Shenzhen-based 1More feels a little differently – the company has launched a range of in-ear and over-ear models and … Read more
What’s the gold standard for headphones? How can you review something so subjective and say. unequivocally, that it’s good, that it’s worth investing in? Us humans are all weird creatures, made from our experiences, nurture, our environment. Our senses are equally as unique. They can be fresh, they can be worn out. they can be … Read more
Cleer NEXT headphone by Chris Martens Cleer is an ambitious manufacturer of personal audio products that makes a point of keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary mass-market trends. In practice, this means the firm presently offers two in-ear headphones (complete with various combinations of noise cancelling, wireless, and heart-rate monitoring features) and six … Read more
NURA Nuraphone G2 Recommended 4/5 ON-EAR HEADPHONES VERDICT An unusual but brilliant set of headphones with unique sound personalisation capabilities EVEN IN THE crowded, competitive world of headphones, the Nuraphone G2 manage to stand out: they’re quite possibly the weirdest pair of over-ears we’ve ever used, but are also some of the best-sounding. That weirdness … Read more
SONY’S LATEST WIRED cans aim to bring high-fidelity audio out of the stratosphere and offer it at a more grounded price, and they largely succeed. Their 40mm drivers are capable of producing frequencies well outside of the human hearing range — a nuanced feature common in high-end audio gear that provides more of a buffer … Read more