Eric Frederiksen

Spotify wants to take over all screens, just like every other app on your phone. Maybe it doesn't need to? SHARE Spotify wants to change the way we interface with music in our cars, letting us keep our hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. The Car…

Sony's official PS5 gaming headset establishes a baseline for enhanced audio, but could it set the bar higher? SHARE With the PlayStation 5, Sony has added new hardware features that enhance how games impress and entice us beyond conventional…

I sit at my desk a lot. No, that’s not correct. I sit at my desk too much. I stand sometimes, too, but I’m always using my keyboard. As much as I hate to say it, I type more than I game. It’s more important than ever that I find the right tool for…

Razer originally sent us the a few months back, and I was excited to start digging into it. Since then, health issues—with my wrists in particular—have made it difficult to spend time with the mouse. Our review is late, but this is still a stellar…

I firmly believe that anything you use a lot is worth paying good money for. We sit in our office chairs for hours a day, we wear glasses from morning to night. Similarly, a game controller might see thousands of hours of use over its lifetime. That…

Back in 2017, Logitech gave us the . It was a sleek tenkeyless keyboard designed for pro gamers. It featured a disconnectable cord, RGB lighting, and a focus on durability. A year and a half later, Logitech is refining that idea in a big way with the…

It takes a lot for a keyboard to stand out these days. Where mechanical keyboards were once a specialty, they’re now commonplace and every component vendor has a generic plank. Where RGB LEDs were a highlight feature, they’re now just another bullet…

It’s rare that I try out a piece of electronics and almost immediately know I’m going to like it. It’s much more often that I can feel the shortcomings of something because I want to stay open and give time for the flaws of a perfect-seeming device…

The G502 is one of Logitech’s best loved mice and, according to the company, the most popular gaming mouse on the market since its release in 2014. While mice like the G900 and G403 have gotten the cord snip and received the Logitech Powerplay…

It’s not often that I’m surprised by a headset. I know most of the brands and their respective product lines pretty well, so when I pick a headset up, I usually find the features I’m expecting and a quality befitting the price. I was surprised, then,…

Even as recently as a few years ago, the gaming headset market was still figuring out what people wanted in a headset. These days, though, the feature set is pretty well solidified, which can make it hard for each headset to stand out. The…

What kind of money would you have to make to spend $900 on headphones? Six digits? Seven? I like fancy headphones and when I look at the pricetag hanging off the Focal Elegia headphones, I physically cringe. That's multiple car payments! That's a…

We know many of the big headset brands on the market. Turtle Beach. Logitech. Astro. Corsair. We're familiar with them, we trust them. Sometimes something comes way out of left field, though, and that's the Victrox Pro AF gaming headset, a $299 piece…

Usually when I dig into headphones, I'm looking at something from Sony, Sennheiser, Grado, or some other known quantities in the personal audio world. But right now, we're in a transitional period where phones are dropping headphone jacks left and…

There's a certain "something" to well-made consumer electronics – especially the kind we're meant to hold in our hands. A really good phone, a solid keyboard, a mouse meant for beating on. That feeling of quality when you first pick it up, and the…

Alright, alright, I'm a believer. Finally, I can say it with confidence. Noise canceling headphones are dope. But as I suspected, you cannot cheap out on them. You have to go with top-end gear. Noise-cancelling technology is complicated and while you…

We already have a party rock anthem, but we need a speaker to play it on. Something small enough to take to the party, but big enough to fill it up. That's the JBL Xtreme 2, the follow-up to, you guessed it, the JBL Xtreme. The barrel-shaped sound…

You love music. You listen to music all day. But you do it over computer speakers, from a wireless speaker, or from your earbuds. But you want to see what you've been missing in all your favorite songs. It's time to get a proper pair of speakers.…

Earlier this year, I had the chance to check out my first set of headphones from french audio outfit Focal. I really dug the Focal Listen Wireless headphones, so I was eager to check out Focal's Spark wireless in-ear headphones. These are another of…

With headphone jacks dropping off cellphones left and right, people are looking for more features in their headphones than just "plays music." If you're going to throw in a battery and a Bluetooth connector, why not do some other stuff? Read me my…