sleeves' so you can choose what's most comfortable and fits into your ear most snugly. It's the fit that provides the sound isolation, and the bass response, and with a choice between foam that takes on the shape of your ears, three sizes each of medium-soft...

• -E3c

used to it, it can be a surprise at first, and even if you are, it takes a little while to get the fit right, especially with the double-flanged tips.  The ear-wires pass over the top of the ear, which is by no means a bad thing, as when headphone wires come...

• -Klipsch Custom-1

A Summary Table for both the tests and test results this section is based on. During testing, I and my assistant (for phone testing) securely placed the earbuds in our ears with the connecting wires hanging down, perpendicular to the floor. I used a standard...

to connect simultaneously using wired and wireless networking. The ZyAIR also provides secured wireless connectivity to your wired network with WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access), which improves on WEP, virtually eliminating the security concerns early wireless had...

The Wiring, Continued. rolling your own car pc. In-Car PCs are something you generally see fitted into the Humvees of the rich and famous, allowing them to play MP3s, navigate via GPS and watch movies all in one neat package. However with a bit of do-it-yourself...

• -The Wiring
• -Our Third And Current CarPC

often rely on “passive” techniques for this, meaning blocking the sounds with foam and plastics either around the ear (circumaural) or in the ear canal. The trouble with ANC headphones is that they tend to be expensive. I once bought a $75 pair of...