In the Loop

Nura NuraLoop hearing-adaptive noise-cancelling earbuds

Melbourne-based audio company Nura has set loose their second product on the world, carrying forward the torch first lit by the over-ear ‘Nuraphone’ in 2017, and greeted with praise in our main headphone round-up last year. And that was unusual, since Nura was one of several companies which sprang up almost simultanously to offer hearing-adaptive features — they give you a hearing test, and then adjust the headphones accordingly to deliver what you didn’t know you were missing. Few of these have we rated as more than glorified EQ. Nura’s original nuraphone seemed an exception.

Promising many of the same features as its larger sibling,