Sony X10 Headphones: Great and Irritating, Just Like Simon Cowell [REVIEW]

Sony and Simon Cowell Introduce X10 Headphones

Sony has unveiled the MRD-X10 headphones, endorsed by Simon Cowell. They cost $299 and are clearly intended to be a competitor to Beats by Dr. Dre, sporting a similar design.

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Everyone wants to be the next Beats. I used to work at a magazine that covered the AV world, and I can tell you the number of headphone-centric events I've been invited to over the last few months is more than in my six years at that publication. For tech companies, headphones are the new black.

Just step onto a subway to see why: Beats headphones -- with their earcups that prominently displays a distinctive red, lower-case "b" -- are everywhere, and have turned over-the-ear headphones, once the domain of technicians and audiophiles only, into something fashionable. Certainly the fact that Beats is part owned by Dr. Dre (along with HTC), automatically giving the product street cred, was a…
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