Mini-Battle Royale (with Cheese): Headphones

I fooled around and fell in love… with a lot of different headphones.

Joshua Beck
17 min readAug 11, 2020

I’ve compared the AirPods and the BeatsX headphones, and I’ve compared the AirPods and the AirPods Pro. But these aren’t the only head phones I own, or use.

Over the last year, I really became hooked on bluetooth headphones. Sure, the wired EarPods that came with my iPhone are sufficient, however, they are still wired, and since they now come with a Lightning connector instead of the 3.5mm headphone jack, that means they only work with my Apple products (and, to note, not even with all Apple products).

Since I recently settled on a Surface laptop as my daily computer, I don’t get the luxury of using one pair of bluetooth buds to sync with all of my devices, either. No magic pairing of my AirPods with my computer and my phone/tablet/watch. And since I’m working from home, I end up using a variety of headphones depending on my needs throughout the day (read: how loud or quiet my household is), and a wired pair rarely- if ever- feels like the right fit.

This Battle Royale is going to play out a little differently, however. I’m not going to pick two pairs of headphones and battle them to the death. No, instead, I’m going to talk a little about each pair of headphones that I use…

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