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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Harry McKerrell

2023 has belonged to the risk-takers, so why are so many audio brands playing it safe?

Ultimate Ears Epicboom sitting on a chair.

While there’s certainly such a thing as “bad” sound, pinning down what we otherwise deem to be “good” is a much trickier task. 

Priorities vary from person to person, and while a pair of lime green plastic headphones that you stole from an open-top bus tour of Paris aged 18 (based on a true story) certainly isn’t the best way to enjoy a delicious slice of Elliott Smith, deciding what is can provide harder to pin down. 

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