Price: $399

Website: www.audeze.com

Brent said: The LCD-1s bring the neutral, natural sound of the best audiophile headphones down to a reasonable price -- and a size that makes it easy to bring the headphones anywhere you go. This is a direction I’m very glad to see audiophile headphones going.

Read the SoundStage! Solo review.

The gist: Planar magnetics for the masses?