It’s looking more and more like the 6S will soon be the last iPhone with a 3.5mm headphone jack.  Apple jettisoned the jack first on the iPhone 7 and hasn’t included it on a new phone ever since. Now rumors are flying about Apple’s elimination of the 3.5mm headphone jack on the upcoming iPhone SE 2. If …

I met Andrew Lissimore at an audio show last year, and we immediately hit if off, probably because we share a common interest in turning people on to great headphones.  Lissimore does it with his sales site, Headphones.com. It obviously has a lot of competition on the web, but Lissimore has a secret weapon: he sells headphones with a 365-day …

In the age of streaming, it’s starting to feel like local AM and FM radio is hopelessly out of date. I know a lot of people still enjoy music on the radio in cars, but it’s facing stiff competition from YouTube, Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, internet radio and SiriusXM Satellite Radio. It’s clear that millennials and Generation Z grew up with …

I’ve long been an enthusiastic fan of Beyerdynamic’s budget headphones. Take a gander at the DT 240 PRO, it has a truly natural midrange tonal balance, so I felt right at home with the sound. Price runs a very reasonable $99 in the US, £108 in the UK, and AU$125 in Australia. While the DT 240 PRO is mostly made …

I’ll cut right to the chase: the Dayton Audio MK402BT two-speaker system fills a room better than any single speaker could: whether thats a $349 Apple HomePod or a $399 Google Home Max smart speaker. The big advantage of bona fide stereo separation is hard to beat for the money; the MK402BT sells for just $98 a pair. The Dayton …

Behold the majesty of the Viva Egoista 845, some might say it’s too large to be a headphone amp — it’s more akin to an integrated amp — but it’s gloriously over the top. No one needs an Egoista 845, but no one needs a 789 horsepower Ferrari either, but if you have the means, why not? I think of …

Sandy Gross is a bona-fide audio industry veteran, but even so I was surprised that when he started GoldenEar Technology in 2010 he was still going to sell speakers through brick and mortar dealers, and not online. His logic was that the best dealers still offered a superior experience for speaker buyers than what they get online. Brick and mortar …

I’ve had a number of chats with ELAC’s Andrew Jones about speaker design over the years. He started out as a research engineer for KEF in 1983, then moved to Infinity and Pioneer, the latter where he was chiefly responsible for their ultra high-end TAD Reference line of speakers that sell for upwards of $80,000. Jones not only designs speakers that sell …

The Shure KSE1500 is like no other headphone in my experience, they sound like a clear portal back to the recording session, there’s no better way to put it. Play familiar recordings and they sound a few steps closer to what the microphones “heard” at the session. When you return to other high-end in-ear headphones, the sound is cloudier, more …

It seems like most start-up headphone companies come and go in the flash of an eye, but 1More has stuck around for one simple reason: they really do make exceptional headphones for affordable prices. Enlarge Image 1More Triple Driver Over-Ear headphone 1More 1More’s Mk801 over-ear and Triple Driver in-ear headphones received raves here at CNET in 2016, and I’ve had …