Mornings can be difficult at the best of times, but right now winter is coming. Generally in Glasgow, this means that daylight appears for about 7 hours a day - to illuminate the rain - then disap...
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Like many other people, members of the RHA Team have recently been victimised by our own Photo apps. Be it iOS Photos, Google Photos or social media notifications, tech seems intent on reminding u...
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September is almost over (insert Green Day joke). Like most of the UK, the staff of RHA are still scattered across Glasgow, making do with unlimited coffee, sunny gardens, and heating that actually wo...
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A few weeks ago, we opened our virtual doors to all the questions that you might have wanted to ask, but were worried were… a bit weird. With zero judgement, we collected them and took them to our...
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This week we’re going to talk about cleaning your headphones, while tactfully avoiding going into detail about what you need to clean them of. As we pointed out last week, bodies are weird; and ear...
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As some of us head back to schools and campuses around the world, we thought we’d take a look at learning. Actually, more accurately a listen. Because of the headphones. Better, or Different? T...
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One question that arises more than any other with noise isolating earbuds is ‘how do I make this fit?’. [PLUG BEGINS] ‘It’s funny you ask,’ we say, ‘because we provide a range of tip sizes with all ou...
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To keep our finger on the pulse, we asked the Team what they’d been listening to throughout August. This month’s playlist features some genuinely recent tracks as well as some obscure oldies and some...
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You should never feel guilty about music that makes you feel good! But, by the same token, there are some tracks you’d prefer to not start casting unexpectedly to the office, mid-rousing chorus. This...
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Generally, collective wisdom has it that, when it comes to concentrating: Blink-182 bad, Chopin good. But *pushes glasses to end of nose* it’s actually more complicated than that. As many of us prepa...
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You’ll know if someone listens to podcasts, because – like sourdough people and record collectors - they’ll tell you. Now imagine working with 50 people like that. This week we asked what podcasts Th...
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How do we fit 9 hours of battery life into such small, well designed, aesthetically appealing earbuds? We're glad you asked! In this, Volume 4, of Behind the Buds we're taking a look at the hero of Tr...
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We asked the Team what they’ve been listening to throughout July; how the found it and what they loved about it. It’ll be current!, we thought, ‘they’ll have been listening to cool new releases...
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Our third Behind the Buds covers one of the unsung stars of the any good true wireless buds; the controls. From the buttons you can become the master of your soundtrack; playing, skipping, and changin...
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We’re in the middle of the summer already, allegedly it’s still 2020 and has been for the last 10 years. We asked the Team what they had read/watched/swiped/eaten recently and would recommend – whethe...
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Back in 2011, when we were the new, handsome and dashing kids on the block, the main function of a headphone was to "make sound" (preferably "sound good"). Fast forward to 2020 and the spec has increa...
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True wireless earbuds are designed for life, and all that entails. The earbuds we design must endure running in the rain, sound great when listening to playlists on the commute, look great on Zoom cal...
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A few years ago we published some highlights from our testing playlists. Now it’s 2020 and we’ve been spending even more time plugged in than ever before. This week we gathered together the testing te...
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When Blur released Modern Life is Rubbish in 1993, they had no idea that, 27 years later, Modern Life would be confined to the indoors for about three months. Modern Life Is Boring But Stressful, mayb...
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