Yamaha’s new earbuds boast top specs, but is ‘Listening Care’ really necessary?

Yamaha has been busily proclaiming that it wants to protect our hearing health with volume-conscious tech baked in to headphones since 2020. Now, the successors to the company’s October 2021 TW-E3B earbuds are here, and it’s the same story: Listening Care promises to future-proof our hearing via a “4-band parametric equalizer (PEQ) to apply precise settings at each level in order to produce the best tonal balance at every volume” – which basically means you should not have to crank up the volume to hear those bass drops or cymbal crashes. Even if you want to.

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