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The age of true wireless

hile high-end audio has all but left the building at CES in Las Vegas these days, there’s no shortage of headphones on display, with True Wireless designs to the fore. A was shown at IFA in Berlin last September, offering six hours of playback from a single charge, extended to 18 hours using the battery-pack case. They work with Harman’s Personi-Fi app to ‘auto-calibrate’ for your tastes, and have both an Ambient Aware function and Talk Thru to interact with the world without having to take an earbud out and potentially dropping it down a drain. They also connect through the app to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Local price TBA:

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