Headphones

This tiny, $100 gadget plugs into your guitar where the lead would normally go, and gives you instant access to 12 beautifully modeled amp sounds and a range of effects through headphones, for super-portable practice and recording. Very impressive!

While there are some "smart" headphones that can perform multiple functions, the vast majority still just amplify music. A new system, however, could give those "dumb" headphones capabilities such as heart rate monitoring and gesture recognition.

Utah's Skullcandy has come up with a set of affordable Bluetooth wireless headphones with active noise cancellation, a monster of a battery, and a built-in "where's my headphones" feature that makes them very hard to lose. Here's our review.

About a month from now, a new pair of headphones will go on sale that are designed for gaming audio immersion without the need for cables. The Xbox Wireless Headset promises to deliver low latency spatial audio for console and PC gamers.

A new audio gear manufacturer co-founded by a former lead acoustics engineer at Apple has announced its first product. The VZR Model One gaming headphones feature a proprietary technology designed to deliver accurate, realistic positional audio.

Even without that striking logo, audio gear from McIntosh Labs has a look all its own. The latest addition to the company's high-end catalog is a versatile 2-channel vacuum tube headphone amplifier named the MHA200.

Players looking to tap into the sweet sounds of a vintage AC30 amplifier while out and about might plug into an amPlug headphone amp and rock out. But now there's another option, with three Vox headphone variants that have guitar amps cooked in.

Roland-owned headphone maker V-Moda has launched a wireless version of its pro-grade M-200 studio cans at the all-digital edition of CES 2021, and cooked in some active noise cancellation too.

Slovenian high-end audio gear company Erzetich has just announced its second high-end headphone amplifier – the Medousa – which combines tube and balanced amplifier architecture for all of the sound quality benefits of both in a single unit.

After months of rumors and leaks, Apple has officially added another member to the AirPods family in the shape of an expensive pair of over-ear headphones called the AirPods Max.

Sony cemented its position as a leader in the Active Noise Canceling space with the release of the WH-1000XM3 ANC headphones in 2018, and now the new WH-1000XM4 model has landed ... with a few more tricks up its sleeve.

Around this time last year, Marshall released a new version of its Major wireless headphones that offered a ludicrous 60 hours of per charge use time. Now the brand has thrown another 20 hours into the mix with the release of the Major IV on-ears.