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Little Black Book, Award-winning producer, mixer and composer on his studio setup and how he went from producing and mixing punk bands to scoring commercials

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Focals newest iteration of its flagship over-ears are here and theyre quite beautiful – and fabulously expensive.

Hifiman are driving the development of headphone technology at an impressive pace!

Here are our 2021 Product of the Year Award winners based on audio products we reviewed that really stood out among their peers in loudspeakers, subwoofers, integrated amplifier, headphones and more.

The Audeze LCD-X is an incredible headphone that wows with its detail, instrument separation, and imaging.

Image: Lavender Baj - Gizmodo Despite being a tech journalist who dabbles in DJing, I spend a lot of my time listening to music through a pair of shitty, old EarPods. No, not AirPods. EarPods. The wired ones. And not even the new wired ones, I’m talking about the ones that still need the adapter. To put it simply, I have been listening to music that sounds like it was illegally downloaded off LimeWire in 2003. So you can imagine my curiosity when I was given the opportunity to try out the Foc...

Focal Clear MG Professional Focal’s revised flagship studio cans raise the bar yet again. It’s only three years since I reviewed Focal’s Clear Professional headphones. You’d expect any pair of phones with a four‑figure price tag to sound pretty stellar, and I was duly impressed. Nevertheless, Focal’s team weren’t content to rest on their laurels, and the Clear Professionals have been superseded by the new MG model, which introduces several design improvements. One of these is ...

More and more manufacturers are following Apple’s lead and dropping 3.5mm analog headphone jacks from their small electronic devices. Computer manufacturers, meanwhile, typically treat audio as an afterthought. Sure, you’ll find a headphone jack on your laptop or desktop machine, but the audio circuitry feeding it is invariably one of the cheapest components on that product’s bill of materials. With its USB-C Dual DAC Cable, Astell&Kern aims to quench music lovers’ and gamers’ thirst ...