audiophiles

The number of pedestrians injured or killed while wearing headphones has tripled in the last six years: 16 oblivious PMP users were offed in 2004, the number rising to 47 for last year.

You can’t do this with your MP3′s! Clever audiophiles the world over have been taking old, beloved record sleeves featuring head shots of famous musical artists and creating the illusion that their body continues past the frame.

Not long ago, listening to music meant one of two things: Watching it live onstage or firing up the record player and arranging your speakers for optimum sound.

But the digital age has enabled music, music information and its culture to thrive nearly everywhere. There’s no shortage of festivals, streaming music, online forums and magazines to give audiophiles their fix.

The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it's hard to say if we've ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody, a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says "takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction" to improve your stereo's sound quality by simply being in the same room.