Brent Butterworth

Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro headphone

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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Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro headphone

Measured: Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro Headphone

Your own look — and sound — with a unique on-the-fly tuning system

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Parrot Zik Headphones

Measured: Parrot Zik Noise Cancelling Headphones

The inside story on the stylish, capable, do-it-all from Parrot and Philippe Starck

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Test Report: Monitor Audio Shadow On-Wall Speakers and RXW12 Subwoofer

Slim speakers that can rock out without dominating your room’s décor.

By Brent Butterworth
Posted November 20, 2012

The dirty little secret about on-wall speakers is that many aren’t tuned for on-wall use. Most come with a foot that allows them to be used atop a table or stand.

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Bowers & Wilkins A7 AirPlay Speaker

Review: Bowers & Wilkins A7 AirPlay Speaker

The hi-fi system, re-reinvented

By Brent Butterworth
Posted November 21, 2012
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When B&W launched the Zeppelin back in 2007, it created a whole new category: the high-end lifestyle audio system. The Zeppelin cost a whopping $599, but it sounded much better than the other iPod docks of its time, it looked like no other audio product in history, and it sold like crazy.

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Pro-Ject Hear It One Over-the-ear headphone

Review: Pro-Ject Hear It One Headphone

A new headphone line from the masters of the budget turntable

By Brent Butterworth
Posted November 26, 2012

I bet your average dude on the street can’t name a single audio company that’s not in the headphone biz now. For an audiophile, it’s easier. As I look around my listening room, I see lots of them: AudioControl, Canare, Hsu Research, Krell, Rotel, Sunfire, and Sonus Faber, none of which have (yet) entered the personal audio field. But that’s changing. The Pro-Ject RM-1.3 turntable sitting atop my audio rack now shares its brand with two headphones, the $129 Hear It One and the $79 Hear It Two.

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Pro-Ject Hear It One Over-the-ear headphone

Measured: Pro-Ject Hear It One Headphone

We give the headphone from the budget turntable masters a spin

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Pro-Ject Hear It 2 headphone

Measured: Pro-Ject Hear It Two Headphones

Inside the turntable experts' $79 audiophile portable

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Pro-Ject Hear It 2 headphone

Review: Pro-Ject Hear It Two Headphones

Can a $79 headphone live up to an audiophile brand name?

By Brent Butterworth
Posted November 28, 2012

A couple of days ago, we listened to the $129 Pro-Ject Hear It One, the larger of two new headphones from the budget turntable specialists. Now we’ll listen to the Hear It Two, a $79 on-ear model that, frankly, looks more like something you’d buy at Target than something you’d buy at Needle Doctor.

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Blue Aura v30 Blackline desktop system

Measured: Blue Aura v30 Blackline Desktop System

The tale of the tape on this nicely designed compact performance system

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