Audio-Technica goes crazy for wireless with five new Bluetooth headphone models
Japan’s Audio-Technica is coming to CES 2018 with a big set of new wireless headphones to show off. The highlight among them is the DSR5BT. Its codename hints at the fact it has the same Pure Digital Drive tech as last year’s over-ear DSR9BT and DSR7BT. The difference with this technology is that it skips the usual digital-to-analog converter required to turn binary data from your phone or laptop into a signal that a headphone driver can understand and play back — and Audio-Technica believes that leads to vastly reduced distortion and a purer music playback.
The DSR5BT pair is also intriguing because of its push-pull driver system inside: it has two asymmetrically sized (one is 9.8mm, the other is 8.8mm) drivers that face each other and…
