Serious Insights Headphone Reviews
This page focuses on Serious Insights headphone reviews. Headphone and other audio reviews are currently the most popular review category on SeriousInsights.net. We cover earbuds, over-the-ear headphones, work-oriented headsets, and other variations on the headphone theme.
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Tozo Open Buds Review Sports earbuds usually don’t fit my ears. They always ride much higher than my ear canal. Even the beautifully engineered Cleer ARC IIs, as good as they sound, still sit well a…
OneOdio Monitor 80 Review I spent the afternoon listening to the once again charting Beatles 1967-1979 (2023 Edition), better known as The Blue Album. The 2023 edition includes the recently released N…
AirFly Pro Deluxe Review Several years ago, I was on a British Airways flight. I awoke, a bit groggy from grog and sleep, unbuckled my seatbelt and bolted up into the cabin. As I did, my head jerked b…
ISOtunes ULTRACOMM Aware Review I don’t like to write bad reviews, but it is hard to recommend the ISOtunes ULTRACOMM Aware earbuds. First, they are very expensive. Second, I had a hard time get…
Monoprice BT-600 ANC Headphones Review The $99 Monoprice BT-600 ANC Headphones show how far basic audio technology has come. Monoprice makes high-end audio equipment, computer accessories and many oth…
JLab Epic Air Sport ANC Gen 2 Review So, I’m back evaluating a pair of sports earbuds, a pretty good one, but they still don’t fit my ears. This may be my last pair of sports earbuds to ev…
EPOS IMPACT 1061 Review For SEO purposes and clarity, I should start off by sharing the basic model for the EPOS headset is not 1061, but 1000. This is a configurable headset. It can be ordered single…
Tranya Nova and Tranya T6 Reviews I must profess that the arrival of the Tranya Nova and Tranya T6 earbuds left me a bit bemused. The Tranya T6 presents as an elegant, even beautiful pair of earbuds. …
JLab Work Buds with Detachable Boom Mic Review I was intrigued by the $80 JLab Work Buds with Detachable Boom Mic when I first saw the description. I spend a lot of time on calls, and while several of…
Tribit FlyBuds C1 True Wireless Earbuds Review I continue to be amazed at the number of high-quality headphones and earbuds available at a reasonable price. The new Tribit FlyBuds C1 True Wireless Ear…
With StoryPhones and BuddyPhones, Onanoff Reimagines Kids Listening Experiences Headphones typically play music from a source, be it a phone or a computer, or perhaps even a record player. The Onanoff…
Cleer Audio ARC II Sport Review I have grown to like the $189.99 Cleer Audio ARC II Sport earbuds, although they have not grown on me. This second-generation device addresses all of my criticism…
Tozo Golden X1 Earbuds Review Technological progress makes it hard to play products against each other, which is why we don’t run many comparison reviews. Every new product adds features that were p…
Enterprise Earbud Comparison: Jabra Evolve2 Buds Edge Out Poly Voyager Free 60+. Read the full review here. Read the full review here. You can read the individual reviews for the Poly Voyager Free 60+…
Poly Voyager Free 60+ Review I am a fan of Poly products, well, Plantronics headphones and Poly phones and video conferencing equipment. As a refresher, Plantronics and Poly merged, and then HP …
Jabra Evolve2 Buds Review: Jabra’s True Wireless Earbuds Tackle the Enterprise The future of audio has become increasingly small. It was inevitable that true wireless earbuds should become the d…
Monoprice™ Wireless Web Meeting Headset Review Headsets have become a defacto standard, and most of the ones in the middle of the market are pretty much the same. Mostly Bluetooth®, over the ear, u…
Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless Review I have challenged the need for expensive personal Bluetooth® speakers. The usually monaural world of Bluetooth speakers, at least to me, doesn’t justify hundre…
CA Essential Bluetooth Headset Review Many phrases have entered the lexicon following the COVID pandemic. One of those relates directly: “Ever since COVID”… is now a catchphrase sta…
Tribit MoveBuds H1 Review I currently don’t include sports earbuds in my regular listening rotation. The recently arrived $89.99 Tribit MoveBuds H1 also failed to make the cut despite impressive aud…
Urbanista Phoenix Review Mobile devices have attempted solar power charging solutions before. You don’t see many on the market after the first salvo. Years ago, I received a backpack with a large so…
Sennheiser MOMENTUM True Wireless 3 Earbuds Review I have now evaluated dozens of earbuds. Frankly, it’s hard to keep track of all the variants. (I feel a bit like Kang the Conqueror). The Sennh…
Timekettle WT2 Edge AI Translation Earbuds Review From Star Trek to Doctor Who, science fiction promised universal translation as an aspect of the future. Star Trek’s Universal Translator lever…
Cleer Arc Review Cleer offers a range of innovative headphones and earbuds. We have evaluated most of their products over the last several years and all of them have proven superior to similar product…
Review Budget pricing doesn’t always mean budget features in a world of components that can be mixed-and-matched to create new products. The OneOdio Fusion A70 headphones cut across the normal l…
Targus Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Headset Review Working from home, sitting on video conferencing calls all day, and taking calls while walking down a neighborhood street. Some people did those things …
Tranya T30 Earbuds Review These compact earbuds dangle like Apple’s AirPods, but they don’t reach into your pocket as deeply. As I write this, the $79.99 Tranya T30s are listed at $39.99 o…
Tranya T40 and Scoshe ThudBuds™ Review I do not like to write bad reviews. Now and then I receive a product that doesn’t make it to a review. All products can be improved, so it could be argued I …
Earbuds can cost hundreds of dollars. Very good ones can be had for less than $100. Less than $60 seems like a near-stocking stuffer territory (though the JLab’s well-regarded Go Air …
Cleer Audio continues to offer earbuds and headphones that punch well above their presumed class. With the Cleer Audio Alpha headphones, the company delivers a new pair of cans that surpasses its Fl…
Gravastar Sirius Pro Review Well, the GravaStar Sirius Pros are ready to make you look cool during battle, but hopefully, the battle won’t last all day. These very conceptual, even editorial, earbud…
Philips Fidelio L3 Headphones Review With the $349.99 Fidelio L3 Philips shipped a pair of headphones that establishes the company as a contender to Bose and others in the high-end wireless, active no…
Tranya T20 Wireless Earbuds The Tranya Rimor true wireless earbuds I reviewed back in May 2020 continue to serve. With the T20, Tranya created a shiny new earbud model that takes budget listening to…
First off, I have to give puro kudos for making the unboxing experience very different. Rather than tearing through stickers that hold slick cardboard sides down, and then peeling off a lot of plastic…
Creative Outlier Air V3 Review What does it mean to “sound like a million bucks”? What it means is I’m exaggerating, but doing so in honor of Creative’s very impressive Outlier…
JBL Live Pro+ TWS earbuds review Everybody is gunning for Apple’s AirPod Pros. And of course, that everybody includes Harman’s JBL. JBL offers a wide variety of headphones, many of which have been…
Planet Buddies Kids Headphones Review We don’t often review children’s items, but when we do we have a good reason. These Planet Buddies headphones reflect the kind of design ethic we a…
Jabra Elite 7 Active Review When you review headphones and earbuds, you get to be fickle. Every new arrival offers some intriguing benefit or differentiation from other members of the collection…
A few years ago, the Cleer Flow, then Cleer Flow II headphones, displaced my aging Bose headphones Quiet Comfort IIs when I traveled. Well, I’ve been on the ground, and as much as I love the Cleer F…
The Campfire Audio Mammoth wired earphones produce outstanding audio that reset expectations set by even the best Bluetooth earbuds. Lossless audio is only truly lossless over a wire, and what comes o…
1More ComfoBuds appear to come from the future. They arrive in little pods, clean and white, or iridescent. They are small and silent ahead of awakening. They glow at the tips to broadcast their willi…
The $129.99 Cleer Ally Plus II true wireless earbuds with 11 hours of playback, solid noise cancelation, and excellent sound should be a welcomed addition to any mobile audio setup. Cleer continues to…
The $149.95 JBL Live 300TWS earbuds deliver good sound in a package that is just a bit bigger than the competition. They come loaded with ambient and talk-thru features, along with good battery life t…
JBL Tune 215TWS bring Apple’s AirPod inspired style, but at fraction of the cost. Less expensive does results in trade-offs, such as Apple unique features, an IP rating, and active noise cancela…
MaskFone: An integration of protection and communications Maskfone Review: I never thought I would own so many masks. Of the ones I own, Maskfone is the most comfortable, and perhaps even the most pro…
Those working from home (WHF) or learning from home (LFM) will appreciate the $99 Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2 for their wireless sound, solid microphone, and price. Gamers will like them because th…
Solid gamer headphones that do double-duty for conference calls and video conferences. Light-weight with a steel frame that makes them more durable than all plastic headphones. A slef-adjust metal hea…
Jabra brings great earbuds to the market, and the Elite 85ts are the best so far. The company extends the design improvements of the Elite 75ts, which just acquired active noise cancelation (ANC) via …
