The Ifi GO Pod Earphones Bundle

Earphones that place studio-quality sound within reach of the Everyman

Though the Beatles’ hometown, Liverpool, has many fine attributes, it’s still a relatively sleepy, provincial, out-of-the-way city. But it is positively metropolitan compared with a staid seaside resort town a short way up the coast. Southport is a place of faded glory, where Liverpudlians’ wealthy older relatives retire to play golf, make polite conversation, and gently grumble about the demise of everything.

So a red-hot technology hub Southport most certainly isn’t. Yet it’s here, in a large Victorian house surrounded by the stereotypical elements of pleasant English life—nursing homes, tennis and bowling clubs—that some of the world’s most eccentric and technically accomplished audio tech is designed.