Beyerdynamic’s Byron BT are the first neckbuds I can actually recommend
Neckbuds. The very name of the product sounds like some ghastly outgrowth that you’d want to have excised from your body. I have never been a fan of this class of wireless-but-not-really headphones, owing to the wide range of compromises that they embody and the limited improvement in convenience they offer over a regular wired pair of earphones. But even the naffest of categories can be redeemed by a well designed product and I’ve finally found it in the $99 Byron BT buds from Beyerdynamic, the first neckbuds that I can actually recommend.
There are many technical hurdles to creating a decent pair of Bluetooth earphones. They need to accommodate batteries and wireless radios — to replace the functionality of the omitted cable — into the…
