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Focal Elegia Headphone review: Top Tier Price
What kind of money would you have to make to spend $900 on headphones? Six digits? Seven? I like fancy headphones and when I look at the pricetag hanging off the Focal Elegia headphones, I physically cringe. That's multiple car payments! That's a PlayStation and an Xbox One – the fancy kind, too. But there's a market for this, because just about every audio company has headphones at...
Pixel USB-C Earbuds review: Nothing Special
Usually when I dig into headphones, I'm looking at something from Sony, Sennheiser, Grado, or some other known quantities in the personal audio world. But right now, we're in a transitional period where phones are dropping headphone jacks left and right, forcing people to either go wireless or find a way to get noise from the phone's USB Type-C port up into their ears. USB Type-C...
Sony 1000xm3 Noise-Cancelling Headphones review: Best in Class
Alright, alright, I'm a believer. Finally, I can say it with confidence. Noise canceling headphones are dope. But as I suspected, you cannot cheap out on them. You have to go with top-end gear. Noise-cancelling technology is complicated and while you can throw the chips for it into any pair of headphones, that doesn't mean it's going to work well. The Sony 1000xm3 headphones, though?...
A Visit to Shure HQ - How Premium Audio Gear is Made
One of my favorite hobbies as a grown-up adult is researching the living daylights out of every purchase I make. From a pocket knife I use primarily for opening Amazon boxes to the TV I spend hours a day staring at, I try to make the most educated purchase and get the biggest bang-for-buck out of everything I buy. One of my best purchases by far, though, has been my Shure SE215 earbuds...
Focal Spark Wireless Earphones review: No Spark
Earlier this year, I had the chance to check out my first set of headphones from french audio outfit Focal. I really dug the Focal Listen Wireless headphones, so I was eager to check out Focal's Spark wireless in-ear headphones. These are another of those "glasses strap" style of wireless earbuds. Rather than going full wireless, the wireless gear is packed into a couple of pills along...
Grado SR325e review: Spartan Sound
Have you ever looked at a pair of headphones and thought, "these are made to make noise – and do absolutely nothing else?" That's all I can think when I look at Grado's SR3253 open-back, on-ear headphones. Everything about them screams pure audio perfection that is uncompromising but respectful of modern audio consumption habits. At $295, they're expensive, beautiful, and they sound...
Sennheiser HD 599 - Sweet Sound
A while back, I posted a Sennheiser HD 559 review. I left a little bit… cold. They felt muffled. I was disappointed with them, to say the least. But now we're back. We've raised the stakes by a couple model numbers and a few dollars for a sort of rematch. We're looking at the open-back, over-ear Sennheiser 599s. The sticker on these is $199 – about double that of the 559s. The 559s (...
Welcome Deadpool (His Head, Anyway) to the TechnoBuffalo Audio Department
As you may have noticed if you keep your eyes on the TechnoBuffalo feed, we’ve been reviewing headphones and headsets a lot lately. Sennheiser, Bang & Olufsen, Grado, Logitech, you name it. We want to show you guys what all that headgear looks like, and there’s only so many ways you can set a pair of cans on a desk and shoot it up while still being informative. So we got a little...
Etymotic ER4SR review: Top Shelf Sound
There's spending a lot on headphones, and then there's spending a lot on headphones. A lot of my friends would look at me like I'd lost my mind if I spent $150 on a pair of headphones. What about double that? The team at Etymotic has been building high-end headphones for decades and I've finally gotten my hands on a set for review. The ER4SR Studio Reference in-ear headphones clock in...