3rd Annual ‘HeadRoom & Friends’ Rock Los Angeles/Orange County Audio Society
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Ryan.
Put dozens of high-end headphones together with hundreds of audio aficionados , tons of cool gear from the best manufacturers on the planet and thousands of dollars in free giveaways and the result is a Sunday full of intensive listening and wonderful camaraderie, all thanks to the efforts of Bob Levi and the L.A./ Orange [...]
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HeadRoom and the Los Angeles Orange County Audio Society are proud to announce a grand Sunday afternoon of fun, frivolity and high-end headphone listening along with some incredible free giveaways of our best HeadRoom reference products. Between 12 noon and 4PM August 22 at the Buena Park Holiday Inn in Anaheim, the 3rd annual ‘HeadRoom [...]
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CANJAM 2010, Head-Fi.org’s international headphone convention extravaganza, was held in the famous windy city of Chicago IL. Hundreds of crazed headphone lovers descended upon the swanky Hyatt Regency Hotel for a weekend of fun, frivolity and serious headphone listening. As usual, HeadRoom showed up big and we brought a full complement of our top high-end [...]
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I finally wrestled our new Apple iPad away from the rest of the HeadRoom staff for a blog post review. First thing to note is that people appear very drawn to this thing and even “non-techies” seem enamored by the iPad’s slick looks and hipster allure. Everywhere I took it, passersby commented on the cutting-edge [...]
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Our gadget-crazy Japanese friends are at it again: NTT is developing headphones that sense eye position in order to create hands-free control of … well any number of things. “Controlling the operation of remote devices with the flick of an eye may sound like science fiction, but it’s all in a day’s work for Dr. [...]
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You may have heard about the new Adidas co-branded headphones at Sennheiser offered in the 680 line. News of the new Adidas cans was all over the net, but did you know there are two other related lines? The 880 line which appears on the Sennheiser web site in the premium portable earbud category, and [...]
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An index to “Right Between Your Ears” World’s Best Headphone Reviews .
Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Tyll.
There’s really no such thing as “The World’s Best Headphones.” For starters, the best headphones for travel are not the best for your listening room. Headphone utility is highly application specific, so no one headphone will be best for all uses. And second, everyone has different ears and tastes, so even within one application there [...]
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Listen carefully … and you’ll hear the popcorn popping throughout Headphonedom. “Tyll’s going to talk about Grado headphones in his blog!!! And he’s doing it in the “World’s Best Headphones” section!? Oh, this is going to be good.” You see, I’m not a Grado fan, it’s not a secret, and I’m not alone. There’s a [...]
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Man, what a shindig! HeadRoom was graciously invited by Noel Lee and Monster Cable to Hollywood CA on January 27 for a Producers/Engineers Grammy Week event featuring the launch of Monster TurbinePRO Copper in-ear headphones. The guest of honor was Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and the highlight of the evening was an acoustic performance [...]
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Woah!!! Stop the presses! Here’s a late entry in the race from Beyerdynamic to be a “World’s Best Headphone:” The T1. Even though we haven’t had time to measure it yet (I will soon, and will post results) there’s no doubt that this new headphone is not only the best that Beyer has ever produced, [...]



