Nothing’s Ear 3 buds remind me more than anything else of the Ear 1, the company’s first product. Not because the design is similar (though it is) or because the sound is similar (it’s gotten a fair bit better, in fact). No, I’m reminded of the Ear 1 because both sets of earbuds share a sense of invention, of boundaries pushed with mixed results. In the Ear 1, that was the result of a new company making its first products, building earbuds that looked unlike anything else on the market but that