CAF 2014: Show Wrap
During a recent seminar, Michael Fremer remarked that there are three big trends in audio’s high-end today: vinyl, high-resolution audio, and headphones. He’s [...]
CAF 2014
CanMania 2014: Cavalli is on fire
At this point, I’m not sure how you could have wandered through the head-fi high-end without stumbling across Cavalli Audio at some point. In short, Cavalli makes some [...]
CanMania 2014: Cypher Labs, Coffman Labs, definitely not meek
Cypher Labs has teamed up with Coffman Labs to create an amazing looking and sounding headphone amplifier, called Prautes ($3,900). This thing has tubes and knobs and [...]
CanMania 2014: HiFiMAN showing some hot new cans
HiFiMAN has a large catalog of personal audio products, including digital audio players, headphones, amplifiers and everything you’d need to connect them. Where [...]
CanMania 2014: iFi and the stack of portable awesome
iFi Audio is a fascinating brand, focusing (almost) exclusively on portable personal audio. Audio-Head‘s Brian Hunter took a look at some of their earliest offerings [...]
CanMania 2014: Headamp and the Purple Hawaii
“Go big or go home” is what flashed through my head when I saw the Headamp table in CanMania this year. I mean, seriously. “Look at me! I am PURPLE! Ha [...]
CanMania 2014: Clear Tune Monitors drops in with flash and style
Clear Tune Monitors is a new-to-me custom IEM company, catering primarily to the pro audio crowd. Prices range from $250-$800. Unfortunately, I was unable to really spend any [...]
CanMania 2014: Stereodesk with Heed, Viva, Crayon and more, is personal audio heaven
Stereodesk’s Fred Crane and Profundo’s Bob Clark were on hand with some extremely fine imports, including an update from Heed Audio and the magnificent Viva Audio [...]
CanMania 2014: Oppo Digital, huge on value, great on sound
Oppo Digital and I go way back. Well, no, not really. I mean I’ve been buying their DVD players for years. The sheer number of features at their absurd price points [...]
CanMania 2014: Nothing fits like Glove Audio
CEntrance’s Michael Goodman was here to promote the new venture, called Glove Audio. I first saw and heard Glove at Newport this year, and I was very impressed both by [...]