Mhm. I was exorcist Emily. I was, you know, had the hoodie on, wearing the ear like I nobody talked to me with my big earphones on. Uh this was for me after I was going through a divorce with my I had very young children at the time. They werefive and three. So I was I was grieving that and I was still adhering to this
thinking about I remember a few years ago a friend of mine came to me and said look he wanted to invest in these earphones that would play the Quran all day long to you and I was like what you know he said we'll make a ton of moneybecause you know U this is the trend uh and I refused to be a participant in
and in a third place environment workers can create their own cubicle using earphones and laptops and the hunched solemn posture of complete absorption
It just flips on, and whatever's on your phone starts. I have my earphones in most of the time, so I don't listen as much as I used to.
It's not one of these romantic relationships where they're going to live together for the rest of their life, but they sort of are. And I'd have my earphones in and just be singing Rock-a-bye over and over and over again until I got it.
And I think, I'm hoping, I get better with each book, and I think "No Turning Back" is probably one of the best so far, but literally the book and I'd plug my earphones in and stick them in, and that helps drown out everything else that's going on in my head as well as the noise around me.
of development of vocal use in dolphins. We wear these bone-conducting earphones .
And I have-- I do one song at a time. And I have a track in my earphones . And it's playing and playing and playing and I often do that.
They're reading on their Kindles, they're reading on their iPads, they're reading on their phones on the train on the way to work. They're listening to books in their earphones on Audible. So it's not that stories are dead.
So we started Jerry Harvey Audio, JH Audio, and I had a little bit of a break period, because I had a non-compete. But I wasn't done designing the earphones . I had designs I'd been working on for that two-year period that I wanted to get out into the marketplace.
And the camera comes in slowly. And there's this woman who has earphones , and she goes like this to me, . And she points to me.
I was like, well, we've been putting multiple lows, mids, and highs, with crossovers, in big speakers. Why can't we do it in a miniature earphone ? So I started just researching, and trying to find miniature components, and landed-- a gentleman named Rick Cenardo, at a company
Ultimate Ears is just a brand that's been around since 1995, so people know the brand. All of the components that I use inside my earphones are built to my specs, so they're not off the shelf components. They may have the same can sizes-- what anybody can buy and put into a shell-- but they're all to my spec, my impedance curves.
How do you break into that? How do you convince people who think that the iPod earphones that they get-- how do you convince people there's something better? Well, I think, because of Google, and because of the way that the world works now, especially the internet, anybody that just puts in "a better headphone"
of development of vocal use in dolphins. And then diver A and diver B would be notified in the earphone that that whistle was made, sargassum or scarf.
you know, the puppet will be like doing drugs, and we're like is this-- not that any of the Squickerwonkers do drugs. Don't be shy. You with the humongous earphones .
So I think that people do their research, and by doing their research, they kind of stumble upon me. It wasn't the $200 to $300 mass produced out of China earphones .
So I think that people do their research, and by doing their research, they kind of stumble upon me. We'll have, I think, Earphone Solutions.
I remember I started in law school in 2006, and I was on the Metro North from Yale to New York. And I was using a laptop with one of those portable modem things in it and using earphones . It was great. I was using Windows.
And then the other eight tracks that I had to mix got remixed. It's not constantly. If you put your little earphones in, it's like that thing banging the ground but for hours.
OK, well, you're selling these really high-end units to rock stars that cost a lot of money, they're very highly customized. At some point, you realize that everyone's running around listening to really bad earphones , and there's an opportunity there for consumer, too. So I want to talk about what it takes for someone who's used to making $1,000 units, $2,000 units, what do you do when you decide, OK, I want to make things
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. And there was sensors on the table, and they had earphones on.
And it sounded really bad out front, because all this stuff is going through the drum mics. So in-ear monitors was in its infancy, and people were focusing more on the transmitters and receivers than they were the earphone side of it. They wanted to save the rest of Alex's hearing, so we decided to try to put him on in-ear monitors.
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. They didn't talk. All they had to do was as you hear the tones in your earphone , tap the sensor.
and screw up with the machine, screw-screw to. Because I cannot move my head, I have big earphone here. And then they put me inside the machine. Looks like you're going into
and bringing their piece to the table so they can add to that collaboration felt perfectly fine in talking to the computer screen with their earphones
This is radio astronomy 1951 style-- leftover war surplus local oscillators, and look, it's even got earphones so that Jodie Foster can listen for the signal.
so those players really shine with a good set of headphones, or a good set of earpieces. And I will say that, when you do have a really good set of headphones, or earphones , when you play a low res file, you hear a low res file. So I would never design anything to try to polish that up.
He's a big Lady Gaga fan. So he starts to take in CDs, which are clearly marked "Lady Gaga," but which are in fact blank. He slips them into his computer, sticks in his earphones ,