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Review: Beyerdynamic DTX 501p headphone

Can our testing panel at long last love an on-ear headphone?
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted December 25, 2012
To reviewers, accusations of bias are just part of the gig. Commenting readers have insisted we’re biased against certain brands, biased against in-ear monitors, biased against headphones with lots of bass, biased against headphones with flat bass, even biased against headphones from non-California companies.

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Review: Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro Headphone

Customize your look and sound with these over-ear cans
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted November 14, 2012
When I attend trade shows, I’m always reluctant to ask for a review sample of a new product. ’Cause who knows if I’ll see something cooler around the corner? But when I saw the Custom One Pro at the recent Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver, I asked Beyerdynamic’s Pete Carini to send me a sample ASAP. After a quick listen to the Custom One Pro, I knew there was no way I’d find a more interesting headphone that weekend.

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For a Song: The $59 Headphone Roundup

All this week, we look at sweet-sounding cans you can pick up without breaking the bank
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted April 2, 2012
- 1
I had always assumed that all $59 headphones sound about as refined as Ski Johnson. That is, until I happened upon a marketing crew from House of Marley at my local Fry’s Electronics. Encouraged by our experience with the company’s $149 Exodus, I tried the $59 Positive Vibration — and was shocked to hear that much of what I loved in the sound of the Exodus was evident in the Positive Vibration, too.
Which got me wondering: Are there other good headphones available at this price point? Could those who have only three Andrew Jacksons to their name actually get a decent set of cans?

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Head Room: Six Audiophile Headphones Tested

When you’re ready to relax with music in your recliner, nothing beats a set of over-ear audiophile headphones. Our listening panel checks out six.
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted January 30, 2012
EVERYWHERE YOU GO, it’s so easy to listen to music, thanks to smartphones, tablets, and MP3 players. But it’s kind of a bummer that millions of people now hear most of their music through earbuds with drivers smaller than a dime.

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Beyerdynamic DT-990
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted January 27, 2012
- 5
THE ONLY MAJOR MANUFACTURER I know of that makes the same headphone in different impedances, Beyerdynamic offers the DT-990 in a 32-ohm version for use with portable devices, a 250-ohm version for average home gear, and a 600-ohm version for high-end headphone amps. We requested the 32-ohm version because the other headphones tested here run in that range and because we figured most S+V readers would at least occasionally want to plug straight into a smartphone or a computer.

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