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Samsung is reportedly developing over-ear headphones called Galaxy H1, which could compete with Apple's AirPods Max and launch in 2027 based on leaks from the Galaxy Wearable app.

The Verge reviews the CMF Clip Pro earbuds, praising their comfort and sound quality for clip-style earbuds while noting they are a good value at under $100.

ChordViz is a tool that lets you build your own music visualizer for MIDI and audio.

An FCC filing suggests Sonos is preparing to release new wireless headphones, possibly called the Sonos Ace Ultra, with new color options and Wi-Fi capabilities. The successor to the Sonos Ace could launch this fall.

Nearfield lets you turn two or more Apple Studio Displays into stereo speakers.

Bose CEO Lila Snyder discusses the company's transformation into a licensing and software business, its acquisitions of McIntosh Labs and Sonus faber, and the potential impact of AI wearables on the headphones market.

WIRED's guide to the best workout headphones and earbuds, testing secure fit, durability, and sound quality across models like the Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 and Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2.

Airy is a free, fast, and simple voice content creation tool showcased on Hacker News.

Sonic Pi v5, the live coding music environment, has been released with new features and improvements.

Unsloth releases GGUF quantizations of MiniMax-H3, an omni-modal generative system for video with native stereo audio, enabling local execution via sd-cli and other platforms.

The author wrote a pure-MLX runtime for the vision and audio towers of Nvidia's Nemotron Omni model, enabling the full multimodal model to run locally on Apple Silicon Macs. All 23 tests pass against the PyTorch reference, and it achieves 67-152 tok/s on an M5 Max.

This paper introduces KVAE, a family of tokenizers for audio, image, and video designed for text-conditioned generative models, claiming competitive or superior reconstruction and generation quality compared to existing open-source tokenizers. The code and training details are publicly released.

VibeVoice 1.5B runs locally on an iPhone with ~2.2 GB memory and up to 1.28× real-time speed; the author plans to release the xcframework and code for audio.cpp.

Nothing's budget sub-brand CMF has launched its first open earbuds, the CMF Clip Pro, priced at $99 with open-ear design, multi-point Bluetooth, and up to 33 hours of total battery life.

FFmpeg 9.0 is a major release of the popular open-source multimedia framework, offering libraries and command-line tools for audio, video, subtitle and metadata processing.

OpenAI announces that audio now uses a dedicated fast path while reasoning and tool use run asynchronously, and voice-session startup has been reduced from six network round trips to one.

A review of the Nothing Ear (3a) wireless earbuds, highlighting their build quality, fit, and unique Audio Snapshot feature with AI transcription.

Vinyl for Mac turns your Mac into a spinning vinyl player, offering a fun way to enjoy music with a retro aesthetic.

Termixer is a terminal-based DJ mixer written in Rust that integrates with TidalCycles, MPV, and SuperCollider for live audio mixing with EQ, crossfade, and sample pads.

A review of the Daisy One headphones, praising their tactile volume dial and comfort but noting mediocre noise canceling and sound quality for the price.