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John Higgins

John Higgins

Senior Reviewer, TVs & Audio

Senior Reviewer, TVs & Audio

John Higgins is a Los Angeles-based senior reviewer at The Verge covering TVs and audio. Before joining The Verge, he’s been the Senior Editor of AV at Digital Trends and Managing Editor, Tech at Reviewed. During his 20+ year career in publishing, he’s written reviews and features for the New York Times’ Wirecutter, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, Business Insider, CNET, Sound & Vision, IGN, T3, Projector Central, and Home Theater Magazine, where he got his start in 2003. He is also an ISF Level III-certified display calibrator. Away from his desk, John is a musician with a Masters degree in piano from University of Southern California. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife and son, or playing D&D or video games. Signal: johnhiggins.01

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The Apple Studio Display could have been so much more

The Studio Display is barely changed from 2022, but now it has competition.

John Higgins
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Bose has the first third-party speakers with Alexa Plus.

In addition to the new Lifestyle Collection speakers announced today, users of existing Bose speakers and soundbars can opt in to add generative AI-powered Alexa Plus functionality starting on May 15th.

You can use Alexa Plus to play songs, add reminders to your schedule, or ask questions, and it will respond more conversationally like other AI chatbots.

Bose takes a swing at Sonos with its new home speakers

The Lifestyle Ultra speakers have big sound, can group with non-Bose speakers, and don’t need the Bose app to stream.

John Higgins
John Higgins
John Higgins
The Buds 2 Plus Motorola showed at MWC are available tomorrow.

The Moto Buds 2 Plus will cost $149 — $20 more than the Moto Buds Plus released in 2024. The new buds will have Sound by Bose, two 11mm dynamic drivers with a Knowles balanced armature, support the LHDC5 low-latency audio codec, as well as Moto AI with compatible Motorola phones.

The AirPods are Tim Cook’s most underrated achievement

Cook and incoming CEO John Ternus made a computer company the most important audio company of the 21st century.

John Higgins
John Higgins
John Higgins
Asus ProArt displays are the first to be validated for Adobe Premiere.

The new Adobe Premiere Color Mode, which is available in the latest Premiere beta, is a color grading system built inside the editing program replacing Lumetri. The Asus ProArt validation extends to full HDR editing workflows with the new Premiere feature.

John Higgins
John Higgins
Tom’s Guide gets a big upgrade.

The site is looking very different today. I’ve long appreciated the rigorous product testing and reporting Tom’s Guide provides and wish its crew the best of luck on the next chapter!

Tom's Guide Redesign

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