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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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 Flow…
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 …
The Jabra Elite 75t earbuds currently sit in the middle position between the aging 65t models and the new 85ts. In some ways they exceed the new 85t specs, but not in important categories. But they ar…
The gaming classic HyperX Cloud II wired headphones wrap games in a deep auditory envelope. As work from home (WFH) locked everyone into a video conferencing stare, people sought headphones that could…
Dyplay is not the first name that comes to mind of when shopping for personal audio products. It may not even be on the list. But it should be. Dyplay has engineered some powerful in-ear monitors (IEM…
Review: Jabra Speak 510 The Jabra Speak 510 has transformed a weekly ritual. Since the beginning of the pandemic lock-in, my family has connected every Saturday night with my sister-in-law and her fam…
We recommend Tranya Rimor True Wireless Earbuds as a solid investment for those who seek a good listening experience from the most compact of travel companions. When I first received a review req…
Which features differentiate wireless earbud designs? Wireless earbuds designs everywhere. At CES 2020 wireless earbuds or in-ear monitors, depending on how audiophile you want to sound, appeared at a…
Cleer Flow II headphones are available in black or silver from Cleer.$279 With the Cleer Flow II headphones, Cleer brought already good headphones into the next decade. Subtle changes often get deride…
Review: W&H BeHear® NOW Review: W&H BeHear® NOW…If you put on the Wear and Hear BeHear® NOW headphones on without doing anything, they channel sound like every other pair of headphone…
Helm True Wireless 5.0 Headphones offer outstanding value for an above-average audio experience. While it seems white wireless earbuds hang ubiquitously from many ears, Apple hasn’t cornered the mar…
Review: Jabra Elite 65t Price: $169.99(Often discounted on e-commerce sites) I have new go-to headphones in the Jabra Wireless Elite 65t. Although Apple has created some new aesthetic with headp…
Review: Denon AH-C820 Headphones A few years ago Polk sent me a pair of Nue Voe earbuds for review (see Headphones Roundup: Polk Nue Voe, Phiaton MS 100 BA, and TunePhonik iZX5at iPhoneLife). They inc…
IFROGZ Impulse Wireless Headphones$59.99Zagg I have been living on video conferencing lately. Skype, Skype for Business, Zoom, Moxtra, and others. I have three hardware companions with me when invokin…
