Active Noise Cancellation in Earbuds: What the Spec Sheet Leaves Out
Cancellation figures are quoted as a single decibel number and are almost meaningless on their own, because active systems only work in…
Cynthia Kuder
Earbuds & In-Ears
Cynthia Kuder
Keeping In-Ears Clean Without Damaging the Driver or Filter Mesh
Clean the nozzle and the tip, never the inside of the housing, and most in-ears will last for years. The filter mesh…
Cynthia Kuder
Multipoint Pairing on Wireless Earbuds: Making Two Devices Behave
Multipoint pairing keeps two devices connected at once and switches between them, and it is the feature that decides whether wireless earbuds…
Cynthia Kuder
Wired In-Ear Monitors for Stage and Studio: Fit, Cable and Impedance
Wired in-ear monitors solve three problems that wireless earbuds cannot: latency, reliability and isolation at a controlled level. They are the only…
Cynthia Kuder
Choosing the Right Ear Tip Size and Why the Seal Decides Everything
The seal is the single largest variable in how an in-ear sounds, and it is decided entirely by tip size and insertion…
Cynthia Kuder
Bluetooth Codecs for In-Ears: Latency, Bitrate and Battery Trade-offs
Pick the codec by what you are doing, not by the bitrate number, because every codec is a trade between bandwidth, latency,…
Cynthia Kuder