Posts Tagged ‘headphones’

David Bowie is: sound and vision at the V&A

Visitors to the David Bowie is exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London – which opened on 23 March, runs until 11 August, and for which 40,000 tickets have been sold – are able to enjoy not only an audio guided tour of the show, but two 3D surround sound simulations, all courtesy [...]

More audio news from CES 2013

Headphone:X surround sound headphones is “a Home Theater in your Pocket (HTiP) solution” for mobile audio from DTS. This new technology uses the acoustic characteristics of the mixing studio or acoustic lab in which multi-channel audio is created to faithfully reproduces the home theatre surround sound experience in a wide variety of conventional headphones. Listeners [...]

Colorfly C3 gives your pocket some FLAC

If your inner audiophile favours Pono and you turn your nose up at MP3s, and if you’re willing to sacrifice user-friendliness for sonic purity, then the £149 Colorfly C3 personal music player could be what you carry in your pocket this winter.
The C3 is the smaller, lighter (though at 11g, still hefty), lower price, all-metal [...]

New eight speaker Dolby 5.1 gaming headset

Another week, another set of new headphones. This time, at the lower end of the price scale, and aimed at gamers rather than audiophiles …
Mad Katz Interactive has announced that its new TRITTONPRO+ True 5.1 Surround Sound Headset for XBox 360 and Playstation 3 will begin shipping in September.
These new gaming headphones deliver true Dolby [...]

New top-end Denon headphones here soon

Sister company Denon has announced its new top-end headphones – the catchily-named AH-D7100s – will be available in the UK towards the end of 2012. These £1,000-a-pair reference class beauties will be going up against Sennheiser’s HD 800s and Grado’s high-end models.
They’re constructed out of high-grade plastic and mahogany, feature new 50mm drivers made from [...]