More in Headphones
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Under Armour wireless headphones: Trading comfort for cool.
How much extra would you pay for a cool brand? When I first saw the Under Armour logo on a tee-shirt at the gym I thought it was maybe a […]
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Headphones: When good is too good.
A 21-year-old friend – that is, someone raised on MP3 and earbuds – asked about headphones recently. This is a woman who is studying music and voice at one of […]
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Blue Lola headphones sound good, but aren’t blue.
Blue Lola headphones are available in two colours, black or white. But not blue. Blue is the brand name, an acronym for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics. But the company’s location […]
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The argument for not short-changing your kids.
Take a look at your kids, any kids for that matter, and consider; they hear better than you. Young, healthy people almost always hear better than older people, people like […]
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Be careful what you listen to
I’ve never been a Ry Cooder fan and Bop Till You Drop was not his greatest album, but I bought it because it was the first popular album to be […]
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How can such smart headphones be so dumb?
Sony’s $499 WH1000XM2 noise cancelling headphones remind me of a few crusty university academics I’ve known; brilliantly clever but no common sense at all. These are among the best noise […]
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How smart kids get around volume-limited headphones
Attentive readers (they’re mostly lawyers) will recall I wrote a story a few months ago about headphones for kids, stressing how easily damage can be done by too much volume. […]
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Clever headphones? It depends who’s using them.
Because we all hear things differently, often with variations between one ear and the other, headphones that tune themselves to the way we, as individuals, hear is a compelling idea. […]
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Headphones. First the bad news.
What is it about headphones? They’ve been at or near the top of best seller lists at electrical retailers for more than a decade and most of the big shops […]