Nothing Ear (Stick)
Nothing Ear (Stick): one-minute review Nothing is a forward-thinking tech and lifestyle outfit, very much in the ascendency, and one that should very soon find itself adorning the hypebeast (and hypebae) elite, if it hasn't already. Although the company's inaugural July 2021 earbuds didn't quite make it into our roundup of the best true wireless earbuds , these have since been joined by a smartphone and now, a second stab at the headphone market – which look and sound even better than before. What you need to know is that there's no ANC this time around, but there is an even stronger design language that carries through to the buds themselves. Said earbuds now include a slightly longer stem that you can squeeze to perform playback, call, and volume tweaks. They also have 1mm larger, custom 12.6mm drivers (a stark contrast to the “off-the-shelf drivers” found within the Ear 1) and, consequently, they do boast an improvement in audio performance, particularly throu...