Blue is the colour

A modern classic gets the blues.

JF

This is the latest version of the ’phone created for Audio-Technica’s 50th celebrations back in 2012, since when not a year has gone by without a special or limited edition arriving with tweaks and/or some new colour scheme. Last year the M50x went red, but this year’s colour is blue. The packaging impressed us — strong recycled cardboard internally, while the headphones themselves emerge, well yes, extremely blue. To paraphrase Spinal Tap, aside from the black headband and ear-pads (hence the full name of ATH-M50x Blue/Black), it’s hard to imagine how they could be any more blue. These are closed headphones, using large 45mm drivers backed by copper-clad aluminium voice coils and neodymium magnets, and they come with three cables: one curly coiled for home/studio use, one long 3-metre minijackterminated…

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