Author: Lewis

  • The best Apple AirPods and AirPods Pro alternatives

    The best Apple AirPods and AirPods Pro alternatives

    The Apple AirPods are overrated. These are the best truly wireless headphones you can buy and are great alternatives to the AirPods.

  • Massdrop x NuForce EDC3 headphone review: Balance of performance and price

    Massdrop x NuForce EDC3 headphone review: Balance of performance and price

    Massdrop has been killing it with their headphone collaborations lately. The Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XX are, in my opinion, the best deal in audio right now (can’t wait for the HD 6XX drop? Get the Sennheiser HD 600, which are the same headphone). The company also has me drooling over the Focal Elex, but…

  • Canepa Cars & Coffee returns for 2017 (gallery)

    Canepa Cars & Coffee returns for 2017 (gallery)

    If you don’t know about Bruce Canepa’s shop and the Cars & Coffee the shop runs throughout spring and summer, you’re missing out on one of the most impressive car gatherings in California. Although Canepa is known for restoring priceless vintage cars and race cars, there’s always a good mix of cars during the Cars…

  • Hooked On Driving review: a newbie’s perspective

    Hooked On Driving review: a newbie’s perspective

    After hemming and hawing for years about signing up for my first track day, I finally bit the bullet a couple of months ago and signed up with a Hooked On Driving trackday at Thunderhill Raceway Park. Speaking with my friends about what track day organizations I should go with, Hooked On Driving was always…

  • Portfolio

    Tech Fluance RT82 review V-Moda M-200 Studio Headphones review Jabra Elite Active 75t review iFi Zen DAC review JBL Charge 4 speaker review Master & Dynamic MW50 review What Apple vs Qualcomm could mean for the iPhone’s future Sonos Playbase review Plantronics BackBeat 500 Series review Origin EVO15-S review Best unlocked smartphones in the US…

  • Moto Z review: Do we need modular phones?

    Moto Z review: Do we need modular phones?

    When Motorola first announced the Moto Z and its modular attachments, I was excited. I loved the modular phone concept that LG started with the G5. But unlike the G5, the Moto Z could swap modules without shutting down the phone. I was baffled at how clunky LG’s modular design looked next to Motorola’s. However,…

  • Beats Pill+ review: Improved sound but still a poor value

    Beats Pill+ review: Improved sound but still a poor value

      I really hoped Apple would turn Beats around and make truly great sounding audio gear. The Beats Pill+ has improved tremendously over the original, but it’s still not enough. I found the original Beats Pill to sound thin, even though it had a strong bass emphasis. The Pill+ improves on the Pill’s sound in…

  • Photography portfolio

    Photography portfolio

    Full galleries Canepa Cars & Coffee – April 2017 Blackhawk Cars & Coffee – June 2015

  • The best OnePlus 3 clear case

    The best OnePlus 3 clear case

      The OnePlus 3 has been on the market for a couple of months now, but finding a good case is still a chore. In order to protect my phone, I settled with getting a generic clear TPU case for the OnePlus 3 off of Amazon. The company name, Love Ying, should have been a red flag.…

  • Driving Roads: Palomares Road, the East Bay’s hidden gem

    Driving Roads: Palomares Road, the East Bay’s hidden gem

    Hidden in the East Bay hills is one of my favorite driving roads. Palomares Road runs between Castro Valley and Fremont, running parallel between highways 880 and 680. It’s a beautiful two-lane road that features a gorgeous view of lush, green hills as well as some redwood trees. Palomares offers a blend of quick sweepers…

  • Installing CyanogenMod on my Moto X made me want to switch to an iPhone

    Installing CyanogenMod on my Moto X made me want to switch to an iPhone

    My Moto X is working fine but over time, like all Android phones, it became slow. Instead of performing a factory reset, I decided to install CyanogenMod. For those unfamiliar, Cyanogen is a small software company that makes a fork of Android called CyanogenMod. It’s completely customizable and has a ton of innovative features not…

  • Review: Nameless Axelback with 5″ offset mufflers for BRZ/FR-S/GT86 [UPDATE w/ video]

    Review: Nameless Axelback with 5″ offset mufflers for BRZ/FR-S/GT86 [UPDATE w/ video]

    The stock exhaust on the BRZ sounds asthmatic. You can tell Subaru and Toyota wanted the car to be a relatively quiet daily driver but for us enthusiasts want a bit more sound. Subaru and Toyota engineered a sound pipe that connects to the intake tube to pump induction noise into the cabin but sounds…