Over the years, it's shocking how many headphones we end up buying. The pair we use for video calls. The pair we use for reference monitoring. The pair we keep for gaming at the end of the day. The Bluetooth pair we take on our commute to catch up on podcasts. Why so many? Well frankly, because if you're particular about audio, you can tell the difference between each of them – and they all do different things for different tasks.
Sankar Thiagasamudram, though, thinks this is a bad situation to be in. The CEO of Californian audio company Audeze, known for its planar-magnetic headphones, such as the MM-500, says he's working hard to make multiple headphones unnecessary with the Maxwell gaming range.