Headphones

You are in Richer Sounds, and the assistant has just placed a pair of £350 headphones on your head. They sound incredible. Then he hands you a pair at £45…

You put on your AirPods, tap play on a Dolby Atmos track in Apple Music, and suddenly the drums are behind you, the vocals are in front, and the guitar…

Your AirPods fell out at mile three, bounced off the kerb, and landed in a puddle. Before that, your over-ear headphones gave you sweat rash behind your ears during a…

You’re in a ranked match, a footstep sounds behind you, and you can’t tell if it’s left or right because your headset’s stereo imaging is rubbish. Or you’ve been wearing…

Your seven-year-old wants headphones for the iPad. You want them to actually protect their hearing rather than blast Cocomelon at 100 decibels directly into developing ears. The problem: kids headphones…

You’re about to spend £200 on headphones and the reviews keep mentioning “open-back” and “closed-back” like you should already know the difference. You don’t — and nobody explained it when…

Picture this: you’re settling down for a long commute, craving the perfect soundtrack to drown out the world around you. You find yourself torn between the crisp, reliable sound of wired headphones and the freedom of wireless options that let you move without getting tangled up. Each choice has…

You’ve narrowed it down to two headphones. The Sony WH-1000XM5 and the Bose QuietComfort Ultra sit at the top of every “best noise-cancelling headphones” list, they cost roughly the same, and they both promise to block out the world so you can enjoy your music in peace. The reviews are split….

You’ve set up your home studio — laptop running a DAW, a decent audio interface, maybe some budget monitors. But every time you mix with headphones, everything sounds different when you play it back on speakers, in the car, or through earbuds. The kick drum that sounded massive on your Sony…

You’re mid-run in the rain, one earbud’s already slipped out and dangling by your chin, and the other is making that horrifying crackling noise that means sweat has got inside.…