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I Love These Headphones...The NAD VISO HP50
Tyll Hertsens  |  Nov 01, 2013  |  92 comments

Okay, I know you're not supposed to give away the story in the headline...but I just can't help it. The NAD VISO HP50 is an awesome headphone!

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I Made a Bad Call: MrSpeakers Ether C Flow Makes "Wall of Fame"
Tyll Hertsens  |  Dec 16, 2016  |  46 comments
Weird how these things happen. Checks and balances make it right.
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JBL Everest Elite 700 Wireless Noise Canceling Over-Ear Headphones
Tyll Hertsens  |  Feb 12, 2017  |  13 comments
Sean Olive and his crew of researchers have been at it for a while now, and I reckon some their work should have trickled down into JBL products by now. One likely candidate is their recently released JBL Everest Elite 700, a wireless, noise canceling, over-ear headphone, which contain Harman's whiz-bang TruNote technology that is claimed to calibrate the headphone to the wearers ears. Let's check it out.
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Katz's Corner Episode 10: Mid-Priced Sealed Headphone Survey
Bob Katz  |  Feb 16, 2016  |  131 comments
Hooo boy! Bob pulls out all the stops in his latest episode.

This is a little treasure trove of incisive opinion on a bunch of pretty darn good $150-$500 full-size sealed headphones.

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Meze 99 Neo Around-Ear Sealed Headphones
Tyll Hertsens  |  Apr 07, 2017  |  8 comments
A first look at this new headphone from Meze...what a difference a pad makes.
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Monster Beats by Dr. Dre Pro
Tyll Hertsens  |  May 14, 2011  |  2 comments

From the “Beats by Dre” website:

“Attention sound engineers, DJs, musicians, and hard core music lovers: Beats Pro is the reference headphone designed by audio professionals for audio professionals.”

Well, one and a half out of four ain’t bad.

You’ll know if you’ve seen my Beat Solo headphone youtube video that I would be perfectly happy to dis these cans. Well, I guess you can’t be happy all the time, because there were quite a few things these headphones did surprisingly well. But I’m not perfectly unhappy, the Beats Pro didn’t fail to disappoint in some ways too.

Life in balance I guess … Dre has his place.

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Monster Cable Beats by Dr. Dre studio headphones
Stephen Mejias  |  Mar 18, 2010  |  1 comments
I was looking out the window. I was waiting for the plane to take off. I was wearing Monster Cable's Beats by Dr. Dre Studio headphones ($349.95). I was listening to Pens' burning, fuzzed-out, 27-minute onslaught, Hey Friend, What You Doing? (320kbps MP3; LP, De Stijl IND071). I was shouting with sudden shock and pain.

"Ow! What?"

My brother-in-law had reached across the aisle and punched me in the leg. He'd been trying to get my attention for a while.

"How do the headphones sound?"

"They sound good, jerk. I couldn't hear a thing you were saying." Apparently, the Beats' noise-canceling feature was working as advertised.

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Mr Speakers Ether C is a World Class Sealed Headphone
Tyll Hertsens  |  Apr 01, 2016  |  29 comments

Not at all sure I'll succeed, but I'll try to find something bad to say about these headphones.

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MrSpeakers Aeon Over-Ear Sealed Planar Magnetic Headphones
Tyll Hertsens  |  Jun 30, 2017  |  58 comments
Oh baby...don't read this if you've got $800 bucks in your wallet and a yen for some good sealed headphones.
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MrSpeakers Ether C Flow Sealed Planar Magnetic Headphone
Tyll Hertsens  |  Dec 12, 2016  |  21 comments
In my mind, Mr. Speakers had become a world-class enthusiast headphone maker.

And it was with that mind-set, biasing that it might be, that I eagerly awaited the coming Ether C Flow. My feelings are mixed.

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MrSpeakers Introduces AEON Over-Ear Sealed Headphone
Tyll Hertsens  |  Jan 30, 2017  |  39 comments
Yesssssss!

I've kvetched quite a bit about the need for some killer headphones in the $500-$1000 price range. Seems like headphone makers just jumped by that price category in an ever more intense race to the top...of your willingness to break your wallet. Looks like we're going to get some relief from MrSpeakers.

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Phiaton Moderna MS 400 headphones
Wes Phillips  |  Jan 14, 2009  |  0 comments
I once spoke to a blacksmith (named Smith, actually) about the wonderfully patterned bowie knives he made of Damascus steel. Struck by the contrast between the massive brutality of the knives themselves and the delicate beauty of the steel from which they were wrought, I asked Smith why he worked in Damascus, expecting him to extol its legendary temper or its aggressive cutting edge. After all, he was a pretty macho guy with a physique like, well, the village blacksmith's (Google it, young 'uns). He thought for a minute before responding, quietly, "Beauty is its own reward."
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PSB M4U 8 Over-Ear Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones
Tyll Hertsens  |  Feb 23, 2018  |  18 comments
It was a real treat being able to talk with Paul Barton about the PSB M4U 8 and NAD HP70 at RMAF last year. Paul has lead acoustic design for PSB, NAD, and Bluesound for a long, long time now; he's got a strong understanding of audio and when he designs a product it speaks of this knowledge. In listening to this headphone, I find myself listening to both the headphone and what Paul may be trying to tell us with them. It's been an interesting dialog.
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Sennheiser HD 202: Inexpensive Headphones Done Really Well
Tyll Hertsens  |  May 06, 2016  |  17 comments
First, how in the hell do you make a pair of headphones, distribute it to retailers, and have it shipped overnight to your house for $20!? I shake my head; how can this be? Well, the answer, of course, is economies of scale. And with 312,000,000 headphones sold world-wide annually, there's plenty of scale in that economy.
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Sennheiser HD 471 Affordable Sealed Over Ear Headphones
Tyll Hertsens  |  Aug 27, 2017  |  21 comments
Right off the top I'm going to encourage any budding social media and music producers in need of their first pair of "real" headphones to take a good hard look and listen to the Sennheiser HD 471. This is a terrific headphone at a terrific price. Sennheiser's website shows the price as $109, but they're commonly available for around $70. Read on for the full scoop!
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