A lot of headphones today come with volume control built in on the wire. If your headphones didn't, though, you can craft your own with a few basic, salvagable electronics. There are actually two ways ...

It’s hard to put a good button on wireless headphones. Like I’ve said before, wireless headphones need to include audio playback controls, and they need to do so in a way that makes it easy for ...

I got an open box M-Audio M-Track Solo for silly cheap, just for laughs. I know absolutely nothing about music creation, but I do have quite a collection of USB DACs and the price was good... and I ...

Yamaha has been granted a patent for a headphone volume control method. The method involves calculating the level of a sound signal captured by a microphone, determining a target volume based on this ...

My volume buttons now do more than just change the volume, and yours can too.

Sound is an important part of gaming, and a good pair of headphones can make all the difference between success and failure. We talked a bit about the SteelSeries Arctis line of gaming headphones when ...

I was all ready to write a sarcastic post about the Splitter, a little box that allows independent volume control of the two pairs of headphones you jack into it. After all, sharing a music track is ...

Had a set of old Harmon Kardon PC speakers with headphone jack and volume knob that controlled the output of both the speakers and/or headphones if they were plugged in. The speakers are breaking and ...

Different environments, such as a noisy commute, may call for cranking up your iPhone headphones' volume as loud as possible. It's especially convenient that there's more than one way to amp up the ...

The magical promise of Bluetooth headphones is the capability to listen to your music without wires as seamlessly as if you’d plugged in any other pair of conventional headphones. Unfortunately, I ...