Tag: IFA

LATEST UPDATE on 9/30/17: I fell behind by a few weeks, but now I’m adding more of the IFA 2017 era new headphones 🙂

Another year has flown by, and here we are, it’s time for a new wave of products ushered out in Berlin at IFA 2017 and all around the world at the same time period. CES in Vegas typically brings us a lot of new headphones, but IFA in Berlin too gives us new gear as well!

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Schiit Loki Mini hardware equalizer
• Shure launches bluetooth versions of SE series
• Bose QC35 II falls in love with Google Assistant
• Bose joins the Truly Wireless craze
• Monoprice M565 Open-Back Over-Ear Planars
• KOSS Two New Gaming Over-Ear Headphones: Open or Closed
• Sennheiser IE 80 S earphones
• Beats Studio 3 Wireless Over-Ears
• Pioneer HDJ-X DJ headphone trio
• Sony expands 1000X line with WH-1000X M2 ANC/BT Over-Ears, WI-1000X Neckband Bluetooth Earphones, and WF-1000X Truly Wireless
• Monoprice Monolith M300 planar IEMs
• Beyerdynamic Aventho Bluetooth headphones
• Audio Technica $2K ATH-ADX5000 open-back flagship
• various RHA earphones
• various gaming headsets

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Time flies and the annual IFA 2016 has arrived. This post will track some of the many new headphones that are revealed at the trade show and elsewhere in parallel with the trade show (smaller manufacturers may not be able to afford a big trade show presence with fanfare and presentations and such, so they have their new launches at home).

LATEST UPDATE: this post will be updated many times as I find and add more and more headphones… TIP: if you are not seeing the correct video embeds, do a hard refresh of the page (eg CTRL-F5 on Firefox)…

TABLE of CONTENTS

The following have been posted below in this long post:

• Apple: Goodbye Headphone Jack, Hello Lightning, and Wireless Earpods and new Beats 3 and X
• LG V20 “Phone as DAP”
• Sony Walkman NW-A30
• Beyerdynamic Byron Earphone Trio
• Sony Signature line Head-Amp and two new Walkman DAPs
• Schiit Jotunheim non-DAC/amp DAC/amp
• the Sennheiser consumer models (4/2 series)
• RHA two in-ears and a DAC/amp
• Sony MDR-Z1R flagship
• Audeze Planar In-Ears (Sine and i3)
• four new Sennheiser HD-5xx headphones
• B&W P7 Bluetooth
• Sony MDR-1000X ANC/BT
• Bragi “The Headphone” and IBM Watson co-operation

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IFA 2014, as expected, brought up lots of new technology, and among them we had new headphones and new headphone related products! The big headlines so far: Sennheiser’s more direct attempt to grab a share of the Beats/Celebrity/Fashion headphones market while the Momentums go in-ear… Sony makes a concentrated High Definition Audio move with the MDR-Z7 headphone and XBA-Z5 earphone and a new high-definition (up to 24/192) Walkman. Sony also refreshes the MDR-1* line with a normal headphone and one with a built-in DAC… The Beats Fallout continues, Steven Lamar launches new $300 Roam Ropes… Pioneer adds another DJ headphone… Philips went on the attack new van Buuren on-ear DJ headphones and two M-series on-ears and one noise-canceller… More Philips, they revealed the world’s first headphone with a Lightning connector, the M2L…

Latest Update: Fri 9/11/14: added Philips M2L Lightning Cable headphones…

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The big annual IFA 2013 technology trade show is ending in Berlin, and with it we got a handful of new headphones from some of the well-known manufacturers. The trends continue as before, more Bluetooth, more fashionable headphones, more noise-cancellation, and more mics and in-line buttons!

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