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5 of the best retro headphones

Get some old-school cool in your over-ear cans

Get some old-school cool in your over-ear cans. Here are some of our favourite retro-styled headphones…

Koss Pro 4AA £80

Love your music and want to be a ‘copter pilot? Blast some Ride of the Valkyries through these, chopper boy.

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Nixon Master Blaster £160

Real leather pads and headband, plus a handy volume control built into one of the aluminium cups. Sweet.

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Panasonic RP-HTX7 £57

If you fancy some of that ’50s-style gloss clamped on your lugholes, these cans have got that Chevy chic.

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Grado SR60i £100

If you err on the industrial, Ford Model T side of retro, these black beauties should suit. And, importantly, they sound amazing.

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i-Mego Retro Classic £50

Evoking some of that Rat Pack charm, these over-ears have been inspired by the classic Shure 55 microphone.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home