Taking a Curve
Jazz and headphones are both around 100 years old. But while jazz is codified to the point that four players who’ve never met can play a standards gig together with no rehearsal, the audio industry is only now establishing a useful set of guidelines for how headphones should sound. Fortunately, the headphones that are based on these guidelines may have been worth the wait.
Headphone sales unexpectedly boomed with the introduction of the Apple iPod, and later the brand sounded radically different.
