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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Alastair Stevenson

We asked the big headphone brands about a critical wireless audio quality milestone – and they were less than enthused

Wireless headphones group image featuring headphones from Bose, Sony, B&W and Sennheiser in a row.

Remember when Qualcomm (one of the biggest mobile, wearable and headphone chipmakers in the world) promised we would see a wave of next-generation wireless headphones with significantly improved hi-res audio quality appear “soon”? Well, that was just over a year ago.

That’s a fairly long time in this fast-paced industry. Which is why, once the one-year mark passed, it was time for me to pull out my black book and do a ring-round of all the movers and shakers in headphone engineering to see what’s going on.

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