Studio

The Hi-X65 open-backed headphones have been designed as professional monitoring headphones for mixing and mastering

Wearables

Austrian Audio brings transparency to the studio with Hi-X65 headphones

Vienna's Austrian Audio has announced its first open-back circumaural headphones, which have been designed for the mixing and mastering workflows of studio professionals but could also find themselves wrapped around the heads of audiophiles.

V-Moda heads to the recording studio with the M-200 reference-grade headphones

Wearables

V-Moda courts music pros with M-200 studio headphones

With multiple editor's choice awards under its belt, V-Moda clearly makes decent headphones. But the models released so far also come with a signature sound. The M-200 headphones, though, have been specifically tuned for producers and musicians.

Music

Roli releases anywhere, anywhen portable music studio

Roli has brought together elements of 2016's Block modular music-making hardware to create the Songmaker Kit. The bundle comprises three of Roli's touch-enabled controllers – the Seaboard Block, the Lightpad and the Loop – and is designed to help players create music tracks while out and about.

Pricing for the Escape Pod varies depending on the configuration and style options selected

Architecture

Podmakers offers an Escape to adaptable garden getaway

Imagined as a garden retreat for workers, visitors or anyone in need of a little timeout, the Escape Pod from UK-based design firm Podmakers is a versatile backyard dwelling that can be adapted to the user's requirements, which might even include changing orientation to catch the afternoon sun.

The iLoud Micro Monitors from IK Multimedia

Music

IK takes aim at the mobile studio with backpack-friendly iLoud Micro Monitors

At this year's NAMM show, IK Multimedia has added what's said to be "the smallest studio reference monitoring system in the world" to its iLoud speaker range. The iLoud Micro Monitors are reported to deliver stunning clear and accurate audio.

The Tone Tank is an armed, motorized tank sporting a microphone adapter for remote-controlled precision positioning of studio mics

Electronics

Tone Tank is the über cool way to reposition studio microphones

The Tone Tank is an armed, motorized tank sporting a microphone adapter for remote-controlled precision positioning of studio mics.

Equipment, furniture, fixtures and fittings spanning a 70-year residency at Bush House in London by the BBC World Service is going to auction this month

Electronics

Updated: BBC World Service equipment and memorabilia to go under the auctioneer's hammer

Equipment, furniture, fixtures and fittings spanning a 70-year residency at Bush House in London by the BBC World Service is going to auction this month.

Ortery Technologies has released what is described as the world's first desktop photo studio to take product shots or create 360 degree animations with a pure white background

Photography

Ortery Technologies shows 3D Pure White Background photography system

Ortery Technologies has released what is described as the world's first desktop photo studio to take product shots or create 360 degree animations with a pure white background.