Features: Headphones

Joseph Grado (1924-2015), is renowned for his “golden ears”. He's credited with inventing the stereo moving coil cartridge and for developing the high end of the dynamic headphone market. He began in business as a fruit retailer but eventually, working at his kitchen table, he morphed it into a headphone and moving iron phono cartridge manufacturing business. The products are hand-made in Brooklyn, New York and the company has entered its third generation. Now... Read More

Technics introduced these new $299.00 earbuds early last December to a group of editors, journalists and influencers at a Kyoto, Japan press event. The big launch was earlier this week at CES. Other than me and I think a writer from What Hi-Fi in the U.K. the "audiophile press" was absent. I travel a lot —I am a million miler on United and I always bring music and headphones. I've got multiple pairs of small "in ear" models from various... Read More