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The Ultrasone Signature Pro ($1,299) has been around for a while, but we just got around to putting it through our listening tests and review process.  The title is no exaggeration, but read on to find out why we don’t think it’s much of a compliment. Ultrasone is no newbie in the world of high-end, [...]

After almost a year of Apple Store-only exclusivity, the Sennheiser Amperior ($349.95)  portable on-ear headphone/headset with inline mic + iPhone controls is now available everywhere.  HeadRoom is also happy to have our hands on another new set of portable cans from Sennheiser, the Momentum ($349.95), which offers great sound, distinguished style and iPhone control + [...]

“Demolish” is probably the more accurate word to use when comparing the sound of the new Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro ($199) to any model of Beats by Dre. The only similarity between the Custom One Pro’s and Beats are their consideration of fashion and mass marketability. “Demolish” may not be the perfect word to use, [...]

When HeadRoom received the news this spring that Denon was discontinuing the AH-D2000, D5000 and D7000 headphone models to be replaced by the AH-D600 ($499) and AH-D7100 ($1,199) we were worried. The last Denon headphone ‘upgrade’, the AH-D1100 replacing the AH-D1001, was a step backward in our opinion, and a business move we didn’t understand. [...]

Early in 2012 Focal released their first headphone, the Spirit One ($279), an almost-full-size, sealed headphone with in-line Apple mic and controls. There are some rumors saying Focal is having manufacturing consistency issues and that there are Focal headphones in the hands of consumers that sound very different from each other. HeadRoom has not yet [...]

HeadRoom is overjoyed to have found and include the NOCS earphones and headphones to our line-up. The NS 200 Aluminum ($69.95), NS 400 Titanium ($99.95), and NS 800 Monitors ($199.95) are all single balanced armature designs, top performers at their price-point, have small, unassuming designs (great for under a helmet) and offer Apple control and [...]

Polk Audio recently released two new active noise canceling headphones, the UltraFocus 6000 in-ear ($149) and the full-size UltraFocus 8000 ($349). UltraFocus 6000 HeadRoom has not been the biggest believers in active noise cancelling in-ear monitors since we’ve always heard in-ear headphones as cleaner-sounding noise canceling alternatives due to the excellent (passive) isolation achieved with [...]

If you’ve heard the acoustic difference high-quality tonewood makes in the overall richness of sound when used in the construction of headphones, you’ve probably looked into Woodees or Thinksound, two earphone manufacturers offering a line of in-ears utilizing tonewood driver housings. Both have received positive reviews in the audio world, so we decided to put [...]

After years of drooling over the sound of our JH Audio ‘demo’ in-ears at HeadRoom and wondering how much better a true audiologist-customized fit would be versus the clumsy generic fit — which felt like a roll of pennies with a foam earplug forced over it — each of the HeadRoom Sales Team now has [...]

As some may recall, the initial release of the LCD-3, the $2,000 Audez’e flagship headphone made with Zebrano wood, experienced issues with inconsistencies in acoustic performance due to the incredibly difficult manufacturing tolerances demanded by the newly engineered LOTUS planar-magnetic driver. When we received our first retail sets of LCD-3 and put them through standard [...]