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Best Audiophile Headphones: 2018 Guide
Jump To: FAQ | Lingo | Price-Based Selections Audiophile Headphones Buying Guide The pinnacle of music listening An audiophile is a lover or enthusiast of music or sound. Audiophile headphones cater to their audience with ultra-high-fidelity playback and a listening experience best described as “luxurious.” We wouldn’t recommend you take your […]
Best DJ Headphones: 2018 Guide
Jump To: What to look for | Price-Based Selections | Waveriding DJ Headphones Buying Guide What makes a great pair of DJ headphones? We interviewed DJs Zebo, Mr. Automatic and Daniel Moose to find out. What makes a great pair of DJ headphones? Headphone manufacturers and casual listeners may tout […]
Best Wireless Bluetooth Headphones: 2018 Guide
Jump To: FAQ | Lingo | Price-Based Selections Wireless Bluetooth Headphones Buying Guide Your music, no cables attached When do you most often listen to music? Is it while you run, bike, or work out? Do you stream music or listen to podcasts on a packed bus or train […]
Best Studio Headphones: 2018 Guide
Jump To: Lingo | FAQ | Price-Based Selections | Breaking In Headphones Studio Monitor Headphones Buying Guide How you hear yourself when you’re making music In a perfect world, you wouldn’t need to wear headphones in the studio. You’d be in the control room in front of a pair […]
Best Portable Casual Headphones: 2018 Guide
Jump To: FAQ | Lingo | Price-Based Selections | Gaming Headsets Casual Portable Headphones Where sound, style and fit meet Sure, studio engineers and DJs have high standards for their headphones, but we also ask a lot of the headphones we use every day. We want them to sound good, […]
Best Noise-Cancelling Headphones & Earbuds: 2018 Guide
Jump To: FAQ | Lingo | Price-Based Selections Noise-Cancelling Headphones Buying Guide How do noise-cancelling headphones work to improve listening quality? Call it active noise-cancelling, adaptive noise-cancelling, or active noise control — the technology in these headphones helps you press the “mute” button on your surroundings. It’s no surprise […]
Five Tips to Get More from Your Gear
You’ve scrimped and saved and now you finally have the rig of your dreams. Congratulations, you are ready to ascend into tonal nirvana. Just one problem — your guitar still sounds weird and that kid in the opening band that’s playing through a beat-up practice amp totally sounds better than you, doesn’t he? Even that ’70s […]
Modded: Epiphone Sheraton II
Every now and then, you pick up a guitar and it’s perfect from minute one (or at least, right after a quick setup). Other times, you’ve got to take a perfectly good guitar and completely overhaul it just to make it your own. This is the story of a perfectly good guitar that fell victim […]
How to Upgrade SampleTank 2.x to SampleTank 3
SampleTank 3, the long-awaited update to IK Multimedia’s well-established sample-based software instrument, was released in fall 2014 with much fanfare. IK’s version 3.5 update — free for ST3 owners — arrived in spring 2015, enticing even more new users with 11 new sound libraries plus reliability improvements. It’s easy to see why SampleTank 3 is […]
