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$200 Puro Pro hybrid over-the-ear headphones are almost perfect

Puro Pro comes in an attractive bamboo box with brass clasp, reminiscent of a good cigar box. [credit: Jim Salter ] Last December, a representative for Puro Sound Labs offered me a review sample of the company’s flagship Bluetooth hybrid headphones. Her timing couldn’t have been better—I had surgery scheduled for January 8 that would […]

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Super High-Fidelity Mario: The quest to find original gaming audio samples

One of many Super Mario World tracks that have now been remastered from their original, high-fidelity audio samples. Classic-gaming archaeology doesn’t always revolve around digging up rare and unreleased games. Sometimes, it’s about taking well-known relics and reconstructing them from newly unearthed and higher-fidelity original component parts. As a result of this work, one of the […]

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Beats Flex: $50 Bluetooth earphones Using Apple’s W1 Processor and USB-C

The Beats Flex, Beats’ newest wireless headset. [charge: Beats ] It is not only Apple that’s announcing new goods on Tuesday: that the organization’s Beats subsidiary has introduced its most recent pair of wireless headphones, the Beats Flex, too. The newest version is around for preorder now for about $50 on Apple.com and will start shipping […]