Headphones

JPS Labs is based in Lancaster, New York, some 14 miles from Buffalo. Since 1990 it has been producing interconnect, speaker and mains cables including USB and S/PDIF digital types. But its first product was a line-level 'bass alignment filter' called the 'Golden Flute', intended to match specific speakers including B&W's 801. It also produced interconnects with aluminium core 'superconductors' – designer Joe Skubinski declaring that aluminium offers more 'neutrality' than either copper or silver. JPS also offers a range of Stackzilla aluminium equipment stands and isolation platforms, all CNC-machined in house like the metalwork of the AB-1266. The planar drivers are also made entirely at the Lancaster plant. It took almost five years of research to finalise these drive units and their robust support structure: the goal was to match the finest of room loudspeakers and create an entirely maintenance-free headphone. In 2018 the company introduced its 'thinnest boutique headphone' the trickle-down and more portable £2995 Diana, supplied with 1.5m cable and carrying bag.