Stop Frame

I am, by no stretch of the imagination, an audiophile. I do, however, appreciate good music well played. When I’m listening, I want to enjoy it. I’ve owned semi-audiophile gear in the past, a lovely NAD amplifier and I can’t recall the brand of bookshelf speakers. The result sounded beautiful and it only set me back around $1,500 in the mid-1980s. "Only..." That system is long-gone, and in retirement I wanted to improve my listening enjoyment. I’ve tried various speakers, such as Sonos, Bose, and even the Harmon Kardon Invoke. All nice, but I came to recognize I was missing true stereo. As good as any of those speakers are, they only truly come alive when you can assemble a stereo pair. I do most of my listening at my computer and things being as they are, a stereo pair would have been difficult to arrange. Headphones seemed the obvious answer and my old Sony PS3 headphones were a nice start. They were joined by a set of Microsoft Surface Headphones and while they were nice,