Audio: Guides

While some people are content calling absolutely any form of these headphones, there’s a marked difference between earphones and earbuds. Check our article to learn about it.

For those of you who are interested in music; whether that means making it, listening to it, or both, you have probably heard the frequency response many times. Today, we explain what it means, and how it affects your musical, or simply, audio, experiences.

What does it mean to burn in headphones? Do your headphones need to be burned in? Or will you end up damaging your headphones? Read on to find out!

What is lossless audio? How much better is it than the music you’re listening to now? Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know.

In this article, we’ll explain what noise cancellation is, the difference between active noise cancellation versus passive noise cancellation, and the difference between noise cancellation and noise isolation.

This article will focus specifically on on-ear and over-ear headphones. The differences in on-ear vs over-ear headphones will be discussed, the benefits determined through an on-ear vs over-ear debate, and the specific factors that help us classify over-ear vs on-ear headphones.

While it may sound like a very general ‘catch-all’ term, when audio is “Hi-Fi”, it’s a sign of it being of a very refined level of quality, one that should please even the pickiest of audiophiles.

If ever you’ve plugged in the turntable directly into an amp (the input is usually named aux or TAPE), you’ll have heard that the sound is incredibly tinny, and the signal is weak. That’s where a phono preamp comes into play.