headphone

Sony Ericsson W902: Style dictator, headphone hater

Crave Sony Ericsson's new top-of-the-line Walkman music phone, the W902, only gets one out of two right.You read correctly: it's another premium music device with no headphone socket. Only the lack of a headphone socket is preventing us from falling in...

22 July 2008, 11:31

Hands-on with Sennheiser PXC 450: Killer cans

Crave It's headphone Monday here at Crave and on our plates this morning is a belting new offering from Sennheiser -- the PXC 450s. You headphone nuts are going to love these, trust us. If there were only two things we could choose to represent Germany...

Tags: sennheiser, noise, block, cancelling

11 June 2007, 11:59

Photos: Audio Technica's ATH-A900 headphones

Crave We've been having a bit of an Audio Technica headphone fest over the last few weeks. Although they produce the bright voice we've heard throughout the entire high-end Audio Technica family, this brightness adds a certain colouration to music...

23 June 2008, 11:59

Philips SHB6102: Smashing stereo Bluetooth headphones

Crave There's nothing more annoying than getting your headphone cables tangled up or losing the headphone adaptor for your mobile phone. The adaptor lets you connect these headphones to any device with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, which means you can...

Tags: philips, bluetooth, connect, headphones

30 April 2007, 12:19

V-moda Vibe Headphones: Inner pieces

Crave Plenty of headphone manufacturers tout phrases like 'noise cancelling', or 'enhanced bass', but when the V-moda Vibe Headphones appeared, they arrived with some outstanding jargon: 'low structure-borne sound sensitivity' takes things to a whole...

Tags: headphones, bass, headphone, vibe

27 November 2006, 11:14

Motorola Rokr EM30, EM28 and EM25: Rokr round the clock

Crave Motorola's Rokr E8 hit a bunch of nails quarely on the head earlier this year, at least when it came to specifying key features a music phone needs -- an end-mounted 3.5mm headphone socket, good sound quality and a decent amount of on-board memory.

7 August 2008, 11:55

Belkin iPod Audio Kit: Podcessory extravaganza

Crave This shiny white Belkin kit solves all your podcessory needs in one fell swoop -- there's a car power cord for charging on the move, a cassette adaptor to listen to your iPod through your stereo, a headphone splitter to share your music, an in-car...

Tags: belkin, car, cable, stereo

18 April 2007, 11:00

Sony Ericsson unveils W595 and W302 Walkman phones

Crave Like the W902, neither W302 or W595 have headphone sockets. Other manufacturers, such as Nokia and Motorola, are seeing the light and now put proper headphone sockets on some of their phones. This is the left-hand side of the W595, complete with...

22 July 2008, 12:39

Photos: Ears-on with the AKG K 701 headphones

Crave But the vixen of the open-back headphone world has some competition in the Crave house: AKG's K 701 -- a pair of similarly priced open-back reference-class headphones. The 6.3mm plug is gold-plated and comes with a gold-plated adaptor for adding...

26 June 2008, 12:19

Dolby Digital: High-definition audio

Crave Crave scootled over to the company's offices to get a demonstration of the latest high-definition material, as well as chew the fat on videogaming and the latest in headphone surround sound. Following on from Creative's HQ-2300D headphones, we also...

Tags: dolby, sky, hd, definition

21 February 2006, 10:21

Parrot Boombox: Bluetooth speaker system

Crave Behold the Bluetooth beast that is the Parrot Boombox, an iPod Hi-Fi-like speaker system that blasts out tunes from your mobile, MP3 player, computer and any other device via Bluetooth or a standard headphone jack.

Tags: parrot, fi, bluetooth, speaker

12 April 2007, 11:49

Hands-on with the Intempo iDAB: iHate it

Crave You would imagine it would use the iPod's display, its headphone socket, its navigational buttons. It has its own headphone socket to use when you want to listen to DAB, and its awkwardly placed buttons make using the thing one headache short of a...

Tags: intempo, radio, buttons, headphone

25 April 2008, 11:34

Photos: Hands-on with the Nokia 5220 XpressMusic

Crave The inclusion of a top-mounted standard 3.5mm headphone socket won the phone serious brownie points, as did the inclusion of a dedicated music chip for better-than-average audio, which certainly seemed better than average during our initial tests...

24 September 2008, 12:57

Smack my MP3 player up: The Ministry gets edgy

Crave The Ministry's second offering is an integrated headphone and MP3 player system. For now, the integrated headphone/MP3 player unit is quite a bulky-looking thing -- not heavy enough to rip your ears off, but they'll give them a workout.

Tags: players, headphone, crave, designs

26 July 2005, 11:34

Levis RedWire DLX Jeans: Integrated iPod trousers

Crave As an added bonus, the player's headphone socket is extended through the trousers (because headphone cables just aren't long enough to reach all the way down to your waist) and a docking cradle houses the iPod in your pocket.

Tags: levi, material, jeans, trousers

17 September 2007, 11:10