KLH’s $1,000 Floorstanding Speaker Actually Fits in Your Apartment
Serious hi-fi speakers have long demanded a certain kind of listener, one with a dedicated room, a generously sized space, and the freedom to place…
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This B&O Headphone Concept Fits Only You, Literally, and It’s the Best Idea Audio Has Had in Years
Bang & Olufsen built its reputation on the idea that audio equipment should be worthy of the spaces it inhabits. Bas Kamp’s ONCE concept takes…
The Sound Blaster AE-X gives your PC a dedicated audio upgrade that onboard sound can’t match
Onboard motherboard audio has improved considerably over the past decade, to the point where most users don’t notice a gap. That’s true enough for casual…
Love Hultén Built a Pink Floyd Prism Guitar You Can Actually Play
The equilateral triangle is one of the most psychologically loaded forms in Western visual culture. It appears on currency, on occult diagrams, on the cover…
Yamaha Just Bought a Fish and Made It Into an Amplifier
Somewhere between a fish market and Milan Design Week, a guitar amplifier became an animal. Yamaha’s HERRING, a concept piece by designer Koji Notomi, is…
One Speaker, 10 Drivers, 400 Watts: DALI’s Vega Changes the Game
The audio world has always had a bit of a hoarding problem. Amplifiers, preamps, turntables, towers, subwoofers, cables that cost more than a weekend trip….
Hiroshi Fujiwara reinterprets Bang & Olufsen’s iconic designs to redefine living room luxury in liquid black
Hiroshi Fujiwara has had his influence stamped in multifaceted spheres – Carrera Chronograph x Fragment Limited Edition and the MC20 Cielo Fuoriserie are some impressive…
Jae Tips x Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2 headphones relieve classic gel and acrylic Nintendo aesthetics
Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2 headphones are the brand’s flagship pair of cans that have good sound quality and some scope for improvement in the ANC….
Vollebak’s New Sonic Jacket Fires 180 Speakers Into Your Body
If you’ve ever stood too close to a speaker at a concert and felt the bass move through your chest, you already understand the basic…
Fosi’s $150 Headphone Amp Snaps to Your iPhone Instead of Dangling
The dongle DAC has become a familiar but awkward sight plugged into the bottom of a smartphone, a small reminder that the headphone jack didn’t…
Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection
For more than four decades, the global high-end audio industry revolved around one annual ritual in Munich. Every May engineers, and audiophiles gathered at HIGH…
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Co-Designed a Synth So Good It’s Now a Collector’s Item
Transparency in tech has followed the classic arc of any design trend: radical, then referential, then mainstream, then meaningful. Nothing made it radical. Dozens of…