A Two-Day Mini-CAF in Rockville, MD on April 2/3 Martin Logan and Rogue Audio will hold an intimate listening party in Rockville, Maryland on April 2/3. This is your opportunity to experience many products that are either new on the […]
Woo Audio, purveyor of fine tubed gear for the discerning head-fi’er, have finalized their portable — the WA8 Eclipse ($1,619 Black or Sliver, $1,709 Gold — but note that these are intro prices, which will […]
If a big stack of gear is your idea of “divide and conquer” in the world of personal audio, then Questyle is your one-stop shop. Truly impressive was their “Golden Reference Stack”: two CMA800R Golden […]
It sounds a little dirty. Illicit, maybe. Sneaky, certainly. I suppose it makes sense — how do you characterize all those stolen moments, swooning in the arms of your secret passion? Say hello to Tryst, […]
When Sennheiser relaunched the Orpheus amplifier and headphone combo last year, they slapped a $55k price tag on the combo. When I first heard, I reacted like many of you, and probably ruptured something important. Look […]
Simple is deceptive. Simple is good. Simple is. Kenzie from AmpsandSound is a simple amplifier. No fuss, no muss, no greasy aftertaste. It’s just an amp. It sits on your desk. It doesn’t take up […]
Cavalli Audio has nothing to prove, at least not to me. They created the most powerful (and powerful sounding) headphone amplifier I’ve ever heard, the Liquid Gold. And yes, I did buy that review unit and yes, it’s […]
You don’t always run across something actually relevant at an audio show, but this year’s CanJam almost saw me as a +2 — I was “this close” to bringing my 9-year-old twins along as my beasts-of-burden. It’s kind […]
Linear Tube Audio licensed David Berning’s ZOTL tech — and then, began the process of tweaking and adjusting and fine tuning. The result is — at least here at CanJam — the $1,100 headphone amplifier, the […]
The big news coming out of Audeze was all about Sine — their new $449 on-ear fold-flat planar magnetic headphone. Another partnership with BMWDesignWorksUSA, the Sine is a sexy little beast and incorporates Audeze’s latest thinking […]
Occasionally, you run across an offering that is both a high-performer and high-value. But finding one that is also gorgeous and clever is rare. And delightful. Enter Meze Headphones. The 99 Classic ($309 in walnut/gold) were a […]
High-end audio is expensive. It’s a maxim! So finding “affordable” corners has become something of a snipe hunt — ain’t no such thing, baby. Except when it is. Admittedly, this is a lot easier in […]
Campfire Audio was launched late last year out of ALO Audio, the Portland-based dealer-turned-manufacturer, and current source of much portable audio goodness. There are three offerings from Campfire: Jupiter ($899), Lyra ($749) and Orion ($399). […]
If you spend any time with headphones — at all — you realize that there are several major weaknesses with the whole enterprise. One? Headphones are hell on your coiffure. Two? At some point, you’re gonna […]
I want to say that the new Ultimate Ears 3D scanning procedure is “cool” or something, but after peering deep into my own ear canals and seeing what the audiologists have been seeing when they’ve […]
There are several benefits to working with wood over, say, metal. The big one? Tooling. With wood, a CNC machine can make your shapes and cutouts for you without having to invest in extremely expensive […]
Brannan Mason, the ultra-buff co-owner of Noble Audio, introduced a brand-spanking-new line of universal-fit in-ear monitors at CanJam last week, all featuring the new anodized shells first-seen with the flagship 10-driver Kaiser that was re-launched […]
FIIO, the maker of affordable digital audio players, was showing with SoundMagic, the maker of affordable headphones. The K5 (available on Amazon for $109) is the docking station for a variety of FIIO players, and features […]
Chord Electronics has offered what may well be the greatest headphone DAC/amp combo ever — and they call it DAVE. You can queue the 2001: A Space Odyssey music at any point. Shown here with […]
I can imagine that foam tips are not really something you tend to get all hot-and-bothered about, but I want to encourage you to reconsider. Nay, I demand it! Ha ha! Mortal, kneel at the […]
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