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Both consumer- and audiophile-grade speakers often ship with speaker grilles that can be kept on or removed, but which is best for sound quality? Truthfully, it depends. Some speakers are designed to be used with their included grilles, and have been tuned to compensate for their impact on frequency response. Other speakers, like subwoofers, only produce low-frequency sound waves that aren’t affected by speaker grilles at all. However, the most common speaker types — full-range drivers, bookshelf speakers, and loudspeakers — are tasked with producing mid- and high-frequency sounds that can be negatively affected by a speaker grille. After investing…

I love my AirPods. They’re so tiny. The sound quality is great. And they (mostly) seamlessly switch between my Apple gear, piping audio into my lugs from whatever device I happen to be gawking at. What I love less is starting an opinion piece with salient points that seem to undermine my main argument, which I’ve just done. And that’s because I think it’s a really good thing that wired headphones are making a comeback. Being that I’m ‘remembers when games loaded from tape’ years old, you might think this is nostalgia talking. And, sure, I have happy memories of my…

If you’ve got a new smart TV, it might not always look or behave the way you’d expect straight out of the box. Your TV might look unnaturally bright, movies could have an odd smoothness, or the home screen shows promotions you never asked for. These issues don’t mean something is wrong with your TV’s hardware. Rather, some default settings could be responsible for affecting your overall viewing experience. So, before you start tweaking advanced controls or assume something is wrong with your TV, I would recommend checking these settings. Related I disabled one Roku setting and movies finally looked…

Smart homes are a funny topic. The idea is that they will make your home smarter: lights that turn on as you come home and off when you go to bed; a coffee machine that’s ready to make your morning cuppa when your alarm goes off; your door unlocking as you approach; your thermostat keeping your home at a comfortable temperature without you having to lift a finger. You get the idea. All sounds great, but the reality is quite different. Many of us have a mismatch of devices in our homes, some of which play nicely together, while others…

Jellyfin was one of the boxes I left unchecked in my home self-hosted setup until recently. It’s wonderful to have every piece of media you own at your disposal and stream it from any device connected to your network. However, managing my library of over a decade of content is still pretty rough, but there’s a way to ease the endless doomscrolling of trying to pick something to watch in Jellyfin. Pairing Jellyfin with ErsatzTV, an open-source personal TV server, lets me create my very own TV channel that broadcasts my favorite childhood shows 24/7, replicating the feel of the…

Looking for the best smart home tips and tricks? You’ve certainly come to the right place. So stop mindlessly scrolling on your iPhone, grab a chair, a bucket of Wi-Fi, and let’s dive straight into some practical ways to get all your connected gadgets and smart home tech playing nicely together – all while making your life much easier in the process… Get ready for bed with one command If you’ve got, say, several smart lamps dotted around the house, something like a bedtime scene is definitely worth setting up. It saves a set of instructions for your lights, so…

Summary GTA 6 lands Nov 19, narrowly making The Game Awards’ Nov 20 GOTY eligibility window. Several high-profile titles release in December and miss the Nov 20 cutoff, pushing them to 2027 contention. If you can’t wait, revisit classics—Daggerfall now has community multiplayer to keep you busy. The Game Awards are less than two months away, and with titles like 007 First Light, Control Resonant, and Forza Horizon 6 already on the market, it’s safe to say the competition for GOTY is very vibrant and fierce. But, of course, we all know which game is going to become the bestseller…

The epic Hyperice X Nike Hyperboot was selected for our 101 brilliant gadgets roundup last year and now Nike – in cahoots with fitness recovery specialist Hyperice – has taken some of the same tech and whacked it into… a pair of sliders. Now these sliders – known as the Hyperice X Nike Air Zoom Hyperslide – are no ordinary flip-flops. I mean, the epic price tag of $250/£239 should tell you that. They’re built for recovery after training and include some pretty crazy tech thanks to some Hyperice add-on packs that both heat and vibrate – I’ll tell you…

As an audio enthusiast, I love gear and try to stay ahead of the curve to get the best equipment my budget allows. I was understandably tempted by the affordable $300 Topping DX5 II desktop DAC and headphone amplifier, packed with modern features, compared with my Steinberg UR22 Mk II, which, after a decade, is getting a bit long in the tooth. But do the upgrades that would really benefit my sound require completely new hardware? My current DAC handles the audio quality I need My 10-year-old interface isn’t as outdated as I first thought Before making an impulse buy,…

NFL fans tuning in to watch this weekend’s Jackson Jaguars Vs Philadelphia Eagles game will almost certainly have spotted some seriously exclusive pairs of Sony headphones on display: the firm has been supplying the American Football league with sideline headsets for two seasons now, having replaced long-time rival Bose as the NFL’s official technology partner in 2024, but they’re next to impossible to get hold of if you’re not coaching staff. I was one of the first UK media to try them out on my home soil, ahead of kick-off at Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Sony also gave me a look…