Tag: HEADPHONES

Custom-fit earbuds are nothing new, but usually such audio gear costs in excess of $400, requires a trip to the audiologist and takes weeks to arrive on your doorstep. Sonomax wants to bring the luxury of custom headphones to a broader audience. The core of that effort is the SonoFit system, which creates custom ear-wear in four minutes, without the need for a trip to a professional. The folks at ...

Last summer, researchers from the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston concluded that teen hearing loss has drastically increased over the last 20 years. The scientists based their conclusions on separate, extensive studies conducted for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The first survey analyzed the hearing capabilities of 2,500 adolescents between ...

If you need quality sound without having to rely on wax-covered earphones, uncomfortable white buds or plastic-y cups, you can't go wrong with a pair of Sony's MDR 7506's. They've been a rugged standby of pros for nearly a decade, and with good reason. Weighing in at 8.1 ounces, the fully-adjustable 7506s are still comfortable after long hours of audio recording, band practice, music listening or ...

It's tough to stand out in the headphone crowd (especially without looking like you're trying too hard), but Aiaiai's TMA-1 phones do so with the utmost subtlety. These minimal, utilitarian cans are coated in a matte rubber, which makes them remarkably drop-, bend- and crush-resistant. They're sturdy without being heavy (less than seven ounces, in fact), meaning they won't cause ear soreness or ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. The good ...

For the most recent additions to his expansive series of 'Beats' headphones, Dr. Dre, in his infinite corporate wisdom, decided to line up celebrity endorsements from the world's most popular CSI extra and Ohio's most loathed professional athlete. As Engadget reports, the hip-hop mogul recently unveiled five new 'Beats by Dr. Dre' products, including a $400 iPod dock, a pair of lightweight ...

If you live in the city, noise-canceling headphones are a must-have accessory. But the thing that makes them so great -- the ability to block out surrounding noise -- also makes them dangerous for navigating busy streets. The new 'Awareness!' app for iPhone plays external noises that are louder than a preset threshold via the headphones' microphone (or the iPhone's mic) while you listen to music, ...

Don't get it twisted. We have love for Puff Daddy. (Although not nearly enough to keep up with all these name changes. We knew Ol' Dirty Bastard, and you, sir, are no Ol' Dirty Bastard.) Undeniably, we have fond memories of the era when his pre-'Godzilla Soundtrack' summer jams dominated the airwaves. But, if we can't forgive the man behind one of rap's greatest groups and one of rap's greatest ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... While other companies have been providing movie-streaming services for several years, Nintendo managed to get in the game this March, and now Best Buy appears finally set to jump on board, as well. The electronics distributor recently acquired the rights to the familiar and established CinemaNow name, and will initially provide ...

If a mid-sized company with a semi-niche product is looking for a celebrity endorsement, take a page from Monster's book: go big or don't even bother. The audio company collaborated with Dr. Dre for Beats by Dre, gunning for those high-end hip-hop types that want some substance with their style, and then with Lady Gaga for her girlie, technophile Heartbeats. But yesterday, in the penthouse of the ...

In the age of Bernie Madoff and smoke-and-mirrors balance sheets, the last thing anyone wants to hear about is another potential fraud scandal from a big shot exec. But that seems to be exactly the case with one high-roller at Koss Corporation, one of the market's top headphone makers. According to DailyTech, Sujata Sachdeva, vice president of finance at Koss, has been arrested and charged ...

A new line of earbuds from Solid Alliance has drawn attention for its, shall we say, less than palatable designs, and as a public service to our readers, we would like to agree with all the haters. Beauty may reside in the eye of the beholder, but so does ugly. The increasingly derided and aptly named Crazy Earphones line consists of four truly dumbfounding designs: sushi roll, banana, cat ...

Start saving your money, all you hep cats, daddios, and beboppers. Monster Cable has unveiled limited edition headphones specifically for jazz lovers. The new Miles Davis Tribute in-ear headphones have been engineered with the "unique acoustic tones of jazz in mind," and the individually numbered pieces come with a slew of special extras. The earbuds, which boast Monster's outside, ...

We've all, far too often, reached into our backpacks, briefcases or man purses to retrieve our earbuds, only to find their wires intertwined in some sinister perversion of the Gordian Knot. As one of those ubiquitous irritations of modern daily life, earbud entanglement has become a Gordian Knot in and of itself, leading any number of bright-eyed industrial designers to try and decisively untie ...

A reader asks: I travel and commute a lot, and I need a set of headphones for my iPod and laptop. Those white earbuds just don't cut it on a plane or subway – especially for blocking out noise. I like to watch action movies, so they need to have good bass for those Hollywood explosions. But I'm also a jazz fan. Hey Reader: We're not crazy about stock earbuds, either, and we've tried ...