Wired headphone sales are exploding(bbc.com)
380 points by billybuckwheat | 636 comments
BBC Future article by Thomas Germain on rising wired headphone sales and the backlash against Bluetooth audio.
#headphones on Hacker News
6 stories tagged headphones, newest first.
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Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video](media.ccc.de)
517 points by AndrewDucker | 187 comments
Video recording of a 39C3 talk by Dennis Heinze and Frieder Steinmetz on Bluetooth headphone vulnerabilities that can be used to attack paired phones.
The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem(basicappleguy.com)
459 points by andrem | 244 comments
A Basic Apple Guy blog post describing a problem with AirPods Pro 3 when used during flights.
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them(washington.edu)
900 points by keploy | 403 comments
University of Washington news release about AI headphones that isolate a single speaker in a crowd when the wearer looks at them.
Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AA (2019)(habr.com)
342 points by todsacerdoti | 100 comments
A 2019 Habr article by ValdikSS describing Bluetooth stack modifications that raise SBC codec bitrate to improve audio quality on headphones lacking AAC, aptX, or LDAC.
Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod(mikebeauchamp.com)
558 points by edent | 279 comments
A personal blog guide showing how to modify Sennheiser HD 555 headphones into the pricier HD 595 model using only a screwdriver.