Browsing: Earbuds & Airpods

Storied Chinese company Huawei may still be struggling to win friends in the phone and tablet worlds, with its lack of access to the Play Store still making the company’s hand-held products impossible to recommend, but the brand’s been a surprisingly reliable maker of admirable earbuds.

Staying connected to the real world is the hot new thing, or so it seems if you’ve been paying attention to the parade of new clip-on (or cuff-style) open earbuds arriving from Sony, Anker, and Bose, to name a few. The solution is so good when done well that you’ll regularly see these buds occupying…

Clip-on (or cuff-style) examples in our best open earbuds guide once felt like a niche trend alongside the more sensible shape — the one that arcs behind your ear. But these ear cuff-esque offerings may now be the next major personal audio craze.

We’re about to enter the final stretch of 2026, and with the Black Friday sales and the festive season looming on the horizon, it felt like as good a time as any to take stock of the headphones we’ve tested this year, and what has impressed us most. Because we’ve tested just so many great…

Something I’ve wanted to do for a long, long time: ask an audiologist for their expert advice on protecting our hearing when it comes to today’s ever-advancing audio tech. I test headphones, speakers, DACs, turntables and the like all day every day, so my auditory system is one I’d like to safeguard — and sometimes…

Last month was huge for Bose’s earbuds output, thanks to the release of not one but two successors to the excellent Bose Ultra Open, a delightfully emo collab on the company’s flagship cansand a set of wired, inexpensive earbuds that boast ANC, controlled by the inline remote.

Having a quick glance at our Amazon Prime Day deals coverage before a quick 5k? You’re a more dedicated person than I am, and that means something.

At a glance, not much separates the Cambridge A100 SE true wireless in-ear headphones from their older A100 stablemates — and that’s because not much does.

Apple products aren’t exactly known to be paragons of repairability, with many devices proving to be daunting work for even the most hardened of repair professionals. It probably won’t come as much of a surprise, then, to see that iFixit has given the new AirPods 5 a lowly score in its latest teardown — but…

We’ve just published our Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5 review and, spoiler alert, it’s glowing and they’re certainly in with a shot of claiming a spot in my guide to the best wireless earbuds in Australia. However, for all their talents, there’s no denying they’re expensive at AU$499.