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Mark Clayton Had Good Hands. His Headphones Had Other Plans.
The former Ravens receiver spent years learning how to make headphones stay put. Building LIVV Audio meant starting over, listening to unwelcome feedback, and finding a use for the patience football had taught him.
Yoav Markiewicz’s first band took months. Then came five in a week.
Before Heavys, Yoav Markiewicz built businesses around growth and trusted connections. With artist partnerships and interchangeable headphone shells, he is turning the things fans love into something they can wear.
Drew Baird and the business of listening closer
A few spare cables sold on eBay became Moon Audio. For founder Drew Baird, the longer story runs through New York DJ booths, an engineering detour, and a community that likes its music with a side of machinery.
Audio-Technica Beat the CD by Turning One Tiny Audio Skill Into a 64-Year Business
A cartridge maker should have disappeared when CDs arrived. Instead, Audio-Technica treated the format shift as an engineering prompt - and built a durable business around the overlooked hardware between a sound and the person hearing it.
The Basement Catalog That Taught America to Wire Its Own Car Stereo
Fifty years ago Bill Crutchfield sold car stereos by explaining, in exhausting detail, how to install them. That habit of over-explaining became the whole business.
The $20 Earbud Company That Sells in a Blue Box You Cannot Miss
Founded in 2005, JLab turned cheap earbuds and a bright blue box into a top-selling audio brand. Here is how a company that refuses the rockstar price built a business worth $370 million.
The Family That Wired the World's Stages - And Then Sold the Headphones
Fritz Sennheiser started a lab in a farmhouse in 1945. Eighty years later his grandsons run the microphone company that quietly powers your favorite show - and made a hard call about the headphones on your head.
Bose Built a Business Around the Part of Sound You Cannot See
For six decades, Bose has sold a deceptively simple promise: make the machinery disappear and let the listener feel the result. Its next act stretches that research habit from headphones and car cabins to luxury hi-fi and the software inside other brands' devices.
Shokz OpenFit Pro
Shokz OpenFit Pro are open-ear earbuds that pull off something most audiophiles thought impossible - noise reduction without sealing your ears. Launched at CES 2026, they combine a SuperBoost dual-diaphragm driver, Dolby Atmos with head tracking, 50 hours of battery life, and a triple-microphone array that quietly tamps down background noise while keeping you aware of your surroundings. Built for athletes, office workers, and anyone who refuses to sacrifice situational awareness for sound quality.