Thus far the 21 st century has been a time of mixed blessings for long-established headphone manufacturers like Beyerdynamic. Headphone buying has burgeoned, principally as a result of mobile listening, and not just in the area of insert 'phones -because it's now cool to wear large on-ear or over-ear headphones in public! As a consequence, business is booming. However, this unprecedentedly healthy headphone market is no longer carved up between marques of yore like Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser and Sony. Every month, it seems, a new headphone manufacturer emerges, and speaker manufacturers have got in on the act too, carrying over their reputations in the process.
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