3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1482+ words) Apple has officially unveiled AirPods 5, and the biggest surprise is not another AI feature or a marginal change to the charging case. Active Noise Cancellation is now standard on Apple’s least-expensive AirPods, with the new open-ear wireless earbuds starting at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1596+ words) AI has become the garnish nobody ordered on almost every new consumer electronics product, but Soundcore is taking a somewhat different approach at IFA 2026. Instead of adding another assistant that can tell you the weather while you are already standing…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1443+ words) Most true wireless earbuds are fighting the same war: better ANC, clearer calls, longer battery life, smaller cases, and increasingly elaborate software designed to convince us that Bluetooth earbuds require an engineering degree to operate. HiFiMAN has apparently decided the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1346+ words) The result is a $28,000 network player/DAC weighing more than 61 pounds, with five independent linear power supplies, a fully discrete DAC architecture and optical network connectivity. Because apparently streaming music from Qobuz needed its own power station. The most significant…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1527+ words) Subwoofer placement can make or break the low-frequency performance of a home theater system, but the location that measures best is not always conveniently located within a few feet of an AV receiver. Running a long RCA cable through a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1046+ words) ASCENDO says the surface is engineered to distribute acoustic energy across a much broader area than a typical point-source loudspeaker while allowing the enclosure to remain exceptionally shallow. In practical terms, the design is intended to function more like a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1122+ words) The $3,000 to $4,000 headphone category is not suffering from a shortage of interesting engineering. Planar magnetic designs from Audeze, Meze Audio, HiFiMAN and ZMF dominate much of the conversation, while HEDD Audio recently reminded us with the HEDDphone TWO GT that…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1175+ words) Sennheiser has expanded its MOMENTUM lineup with the MOMENTUM True Wireless 5, its new flagship true wireless earbuds and the successor to the MOMENTUM True Wireless 4. Inspired in part by the full-size MOMENTUM 5 Wireless Headphones, the MOMENTUM True Wireless 5 introduce several…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1249+ words) CEDIA Expo 2026 is rapidly turning into a very expensive argument over the future of the big-screen home theater. Quantum Media Systems is pushing native 8K processing, DreamWall is attacking MicroLED heat and installation complexity, and Christie is arriving with a 15,000-lumen…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1008+ words) Bass shakers are one of home theater’s more entertaining blunt instruments. Attach a tactile transducer to a recliner or platform, feed it low-frequency information, and explosions, engines, dinosaurs, and spacecraft can suddenly be felt as much as heard. The problem…...