Fresh From the Bench: Røde NTH-100 Headphones

The Røde NTH-100 headphones are a late but refined entrance from the Australian company into the product segment. The headphones are engineered to be durable as pro audio products need to be. All the important components are also user-replaceable and can be removed and swapped out in seconds. The fully adjustable headband with a unique FitLok locking system is a very distinctive feature that will be appreciated over time. Find out how the NTH-100 stacks up to the competition. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2022.

Periodic Audio, the IEM company created in 2016 by consumer-electronics industry veterans Dan Wiggins, Mike Kim, Zeke Burgess, and Ben Webster, announced that the company will move to a direct sales model and as a result will pass distribution cost-savings to its customers. Effectively immediately, Periodic Audio announced a significant price reduction for its line of V3 in-ear monitors launched earlier in 2022.

beyerdynamic officially launched the third generation of the high end T1 (open) and T5 (closed) headphones today. Both headphones are powered by transducers based on beyerdynamic’s Tesla technology, are certified for high resolution audio, and improve the sound experience yet again, with a focus on the authentic reproduction of sounds, tuned for high-end realism especially in the upper mids. And they come with improved replaceable cables!

beyerdynamic surprised the market by releasing information about its new DT 1770 PRO professional studio headphones prior to the presentation at the 2015 Hong Kong High-End Audio-Visual Show and IFA 2015 in Berlin. We are glad they did, because these are Tesla 2.0 drivers in closed 250 ohm headphones!