When it comes to enhancing the audio of your music library, there is a seemingly endless array of headphones and earbuds to choose from offering a wide variety of filters and volume controls. Wouldn’t ...

Sony has just released an update for its WF-1000XM3 earbuds that make an already great product even better. The update adds three new features: support for Alexa, on-board volume controls and the ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

One of the things that many folks like when they are using headphones or earbuds with a music phone or MP3 player is an inline volume control. If your favorite headphones or earphones lack the feature ...

Longtime Apple enthusiasts sometimes forget that the company is still gaining new fans every day. Apple sold 43,719,000 iPhones in the second quarter of 2014 alone. That's a lot of people who may not ...

Like so many parents, Christine Ingemi of Amherst got tired of constantly telling her four children, ages 5 to 11, to turn down the volume on their iPods. “It would be so loud sometimes, I could hear ...

This year Bose did what they had previously been unable to do — produce true wireless earbuds worthy of the Bose name. The new Quiet Comfort earbuds are the best sounding true wireless earbuds that we ...

A lot of headphones today come with volume control built in on the wire. If your headphones didn't, though, you can craft your own with a few basic, salvagable electronics. There are actually two ways ...

Sharing music wirelessly is less fun than analog listening. There, I said it. There's no tactile click when you plug in a headphone splitter or the gentle tug when the friend you are sharing an earbud ...