Audio

Quarks rating explanation here. Grado is a well known brand in the music industry. This family owned company is famous for their classic line of headphones which are manufactured in Brooklyn, New York. Grado headphones and earphones have always been highly praised by audiophiles. Especially by those whose taste is more inclined towards Rock, Blues and Jazz genres. Like in my previous audio reviews, I won’t be going through technical charts or DB graphs showing how much the signal is attenuated at different frequencies....

The Overcast app is probably the best iOS podcast App currently available in the AppStore. Features like Smart Speed and Voice Boost really set it apart. The capability of recommending podcasts through Twitter and fast forwarding instead of just jumping to the next podcast when remote controls are used (e.g. while driving or by using headphone controls) are really nice features. The developer also put together a really nice web service for listening to the podcast directly from your browser....

Quarks rating explanation here. Sennheiser announced this year the second generation of the Momentum series of headphones, and this time they went wireless. It was definitely a bold movement, especially for a high-end headphone manufacturer like Sennheiser as traditionally wireless headphones are not expected to provide the same level of high fidelity as wired offerings. In this review I won’t be going through technical charts or DB graphs showing how much the signal is attenuated at different frequencies....

Quarks rating explanation here. Update: Checkout the end of this post for a referral code to buy a Sonos player and get a free BRIDGE. The way we listen to music has evolved in recent years. Although we may still have big music libraries either in physical media (CD and/or DVD) or stored in our hard drives, we have recently shifted to streaming services because of the advantages they offer....

Quarks rating explanation here. I have been lucky enough to have used a wide variety of headphones, ranging from really cheap ones to relative expensive ones. The term relative is key here, as some people may consider a $350 price tag to be high, whereas others may consider it an entry level price for premium audio. I am in the former group, I’m definitely not and audiophile and therefore, you won’t see impedance graphs or attenuation tables in this review....