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This weekend in the arts: Gup Shup: immigrant food writing and tastings at the Mingei; a new poetry collection from Lora Mathis at MCASD; inclusive art at Revision Studio; Françoise Gilot; Leonard Patton; Songwriter Sanctuary and more.
Audio designer Simon Quarry tells us about the resurrected A1 amplifier and all things Musical Fidelity.
While most earbuds are relatively universal, more and more, we’re seeing earbuds that are tied into a specific ecosystem. Sure, you can use the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro with any Android phone or even an iPhone, but you don’t get the full experience if you’re not using a supported Samsung device.
We live in an era where most headphones see updates every few years, well beyond simple cosmetic changes. That isn’t the case with the Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, which have been more or less the same since 2003, aside from a minor design change in 2019. Nothing else was necessary, apparently.
Still fueling the Queens of the Stone Age ship since 1996, Josh Homme's songwriting, and musicianship have stretched beyond the QOTSA box.