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 ...

It’s hard to put a good button on wireless headphones. Like I’ve said before, wireless headphones need to include audio playback controls, and they need to do so in a way that makes it easy for ...

Yamaha has been granted a patent for a headphone volume control method. The method involves calculating the level of a sound signal captured by a microphone, determining a target volume based on this ...

I got an open box M-Audio M-Track Solo for silly cheap, just for laughs. I know absolutely nothing about music creation, but I do have quite a collection of USB DACs and the price was good... and I ...

Sound is an important part of gaming, and a good pair of headphones can make all the difference between success and failure. We talked a bit about the SteelSeries Arctis line of gaming headphones when ...

I was all ready to write a sarcastic post about the Splitter, a little box that allows independent volume control of the two pairs of headphones you jack into it. After all, sharing a music track is ...

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