You knew it would happen sooner or later, Sennheiser is now in the business of building headphone amps!

I'm in Riverton, WY having just motorcycled half way to Denver from Bozeman, and I've got a puzzling question that's been rattling around inside my helmet today. Jude asked me to participate in a panel discussion Sunday, the topic: "What is the future of headphones?"

I've got some thoughts, but I'd love for you to pitch in as well.

Logitech has recently stepped up it's game in the world of personal audio with an entirely new line of Logitech UE branded products. There's plenty of muscle there to do the job well, the question is: Can a mouse company apply it with the finesse needed to really produce well balanced audio products?

Fortunately, Ultimate Ears is in the mix, and it seems to me the mouse has some pretty good ears now.

It's a funny thing how people organize themselves. Put a big bunch of us together, and we'll splinter off into smaller groups of like-minded people...who sometimes war against each other. While Head-Fi has remained the central square, it, too, contains sub-groups, and numerous factions have wholly split off into other forums.

And now, it seems, we have pirates in our midst.