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Price £250 Contact Austrian Audio At NAMM 2020 in January, we spied two new headphones from Austrian Audio, both designed for professional studio use. The Hi-X50 is an on-ear design, while the pair we’re examining here is the circumaural (over-ear) Hi-X55s. They come with a good-quality 3m detachable cable featuring a 3.5mm (1/8 inch) plug […]
Marshall ups its game on the headphone front with the new Monitor II ANCs (Active Noise-Cancelling), which the brand says deliver “bright and crisp highs, punchy mids and deep bass”. Feature-packed and stylish, Monitor II ANC headphones are inspired by Marshall’s heritage, maintaining the signature sound and aesthetic of the brand. Tuned 40mm dynamic […]
Meters Music, a subsidiary of Ashdown Engineering, has unveiled its new flagship wireless headphones, the OV-1-B-Connect, featuring wireless aptX HD Bluetooth connectivity and active noise cancelling. The accompanying Meters Connect app is released alongside the headphones to be used for ultimate control and customisation over the audio. OV-1-B-Connect comes with a cosmetic design quirk – […]
NAMM 2020: Austrian Audio has announced two new headphones designed for professional producers and engineers, the HI-X50 and HI-X55. Austrian Audio is a relative newcomer but has already made a mark with its high-quality OC18 and OC818 microphones. Their new headphone designs exhibit thoughtful design choices that make them durable, portable and professional. The HI-X55 headphones […]
Korg has released the NC-Q1, its latest over-ear headphone designed for use by DJs, front-of-house engineers and musicians. The NC-Q1 comes with live environment-friendly features such as Smart Monitoring and Sound Enhancing functions that allow the wearer to customise the amount of external sound that bleeds in. Wearers can also control which earcup to monitor […]
We recently praised AKG’s affordable professional headphones, the K371 headphones, for their value for money and performance. AKG has now announced that they are to release Bluetooth versions of the K361 and K371 headphones, aptly named K361-BT and K371-BT. The headphones will be exhibited at NAMM 2020 next week, giving music lovers a first taste […]
WINNER: JBL 306P MkII 2019 might well go down in history for MusicTech as the year in which we could finally start recommending studio monitors that cost well under the four figures we usually recommend splashing out. Technology, performance and manufacture have all improved so much that we have seen small and compact models from […]
Price £139 Contact AKG Did you know there are headphones out there that can cost $120,000?! Yep, there’s an edition of Focal’s Utopia model that apparently has encrusted diamonds and shifts for that six-figure sum. My most expensive review set so far has been a set of AKG K872s that then cost well over a […]
Milan-based high-fidelity audio company, V-MODA has unveiled the M-200 Professional Studio Headphones, continuing their collaboration with Roland Corporation. Being a combination of meticulous Japenese engineering and V-MODA’S classic style, this is the first of V-MODA’s headphones to be designed for the studio environment. The company says these headphones have been made“to produce a clean, refined […]
Price £219 Contact Moshi The trouble with Bluetooth digital headphones is they introduce a delay, so can’t be used for monitoring recording and playing. They are increasingly improving for sound quality, though. Moshi – a company making inroads in the headphone market – has released these wired USB C headphones that connect direct to your […]