Mashable writers and editors perform standardized tests to evaluate headphones and earbuds for our hands-on coverage. Here's ...

Our experts sleep, work, run, swim, hike, watch movies, and listen to music to test headphones and earbuds. During testing, we place our daily drivers in their carrying cases and use the review ...

You can now get a dedicated amplifier, sometimes including a DAC, that can actually drive high impedance planar magnetic headphones, or have a quiet enough noise floor to drive highly sensitive IEM's.