the best songs to test your headphones
Baum's choices to feel the music A good pair of headphones changes how you hear music. But not all music reveals that equally. Some tracks are recorded and mixed in a way that exposes everyth...
What to Look for in a Commuting Headphone
Commuting is one of the most demanding environments for headphones. You are moving, the background noise changes constantly, and you want to actually hear the music, not just feel like you are lis...
How to Actively (Actually) Listen to Music
Most of us have music on all day. But most of us barely hear it. It plays while we work, cook, scroll. It is there. But we are somewhere else. That is fine. Music works well in the backgrou...
Why We Made the ellipse™ Wired
When we were designing the ellipse™, we had a choice to make early on: wireless or wired?We chose the wire. On purpose. That might sound like a conservative decision in 2026. Most headphon...
Wired Headphones Are Back. Here Is Why.
After five years of declining sales, wired headphones are having a moment. Revenue was up 20% in the first six weeks of 2026, according to analytics firm Circana. Celebrities from Ariana Grande t...
The simple answer is that we made it for ourselves. We are musicians. We are music lovers. We spend a lot of time on both sides of the glass — writing, recording, mixing, and then coming home a...
And What It Says About How We Want to Listen The soft hiss as the needle finds the groove. The weight of a 12-inch record in your hands. The moment before the music starts. If you have only ev...
Headphone specifications can feel like a foreign language. Numbers and units that look impressive on a page but tell you almost nothing about what you will actually hear. So here is what we chos...