It seems only yesterday that the majority of headphone users were content in picking out a pair of essentially disposable, unbranded wired headphones from airport electronics stores and Claire’s Accessories. So long as they had a separate volume and play/pause button attached to the wire, we were good to go.
The audio technical space has skyrocketed in the last few decades, with the invention of noise-cancelling headphones in 1989 and Bluetooth in 1994 shifting the demand for high-quality, stylish earbuds and over-ear headphones into an entirely different realm.
