Announcements

June 22, 2017 in Announcements // Black Sabbath announce The Ten Year War: Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set with MQA high-res
June 14, 2017 in Announcements // Audio Research Announces its First Ever Trade Up! Program
June 9, 2017 in Announcements // New PS Audio Huron upgrade for DirectStream and DirectStream Jr DACs; MQA and Tidal coming soon
June 8, 2017 in Announcements // Canada: A unique land of high fidelity
June 6, 2017 in Announcements // Element Acoustics to host Limited-Seating Accuphase Demo Event in Vancouver June 24th
June 6, 2017 in Announcements // Wilson Audio raises the bar with Alexia Series-2 loudspeaker
June 3, 2017 in Announcements // KEF Announces TIDAL Integration for KEF LS50W
May 26, 2017 in Announcements // HiFi Centre steps in to fill void as Vancouver Audio Show pulled from Chester Group website
May 23, 2017 in Announcements // Breaking News: Manchester Bombing
May 18, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: Pass Labs’ New XP-12 Preamp and XP-17 Phono Stage
May 18, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: Harbeth 40th Anniversary continues with new M30.2 loudspeaker
May 18, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: McIntosh Announces Two New Products
May 17, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: dCS celebrates their 30th Anniversary with the Limited Edition Vivaldi One
May 16, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: AURALiC announces high-end G Series streaming components
May 12, 2017 in Announcements // MQA update for AudioQuest Dragonfly Black and Red coming May 17 – new partnerships announced
May 8, 2017 in Announcements // Noble Audio X is back on Massdrop
May 1, 2017 in Announcements // Win a free SVS subwoofer!
April 22, 2017 in Announcements // OPPO Releases UDP-205 Audiophile Universal Player
April 20, 2017 in Announcements // MoFi Distribution takes on Dr. Feickert Analogue
April 17, 2017 in Announcements // Pass Labs launch new XA Series Class-A power amplifier

CAF 2014

CAF 2014: Show Wrap

August 20, 2014

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 spot on. But there is another major trend overlooked in that count. A social [...]

CanMania 2014: Cavalli is on fire

August 20, 2014

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 of the best headphone amplifiers on the market. The amps are high-power and [...]

CanMania 2014: Cypher Labs, Coffman Labs, definitely not meek

August 20, 2014

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 textured sides and I get all quivery just looking at it. Some things to note. One, [...]

CanMania 2014: HiFiMAN showing some hot new cans

August 19, 2014

HiFiMAN has a large catalog of personal audio products, including digital audio players, headphones, amplifiers and everything you’d need to connect them. Where I’ve seen them, repeatedly, is on the headphone front with the sonically [...]

CanMania 2014: iFi and the stack of portable awesome

August 19, 2014

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 for Part-Time Audiophile last year and has another stack of their [...]

CanMania 2014: Headamp and the Purple Hawaii

August 18, 2014

“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 HA!” Said another way, that is some crazy color on that Blue Hawaii [...]

CanMania 2014: Clear Tune Monitors drops in with flash and style

August 18, 2014

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 time with them as they bugged out a bit early, but I did manage to flip [...]

CAF 2014

CAF 2014: Show Wrap

CanMania 2014: Cavalli is on fire

CanMania 2014: Cypher Labs, Coffman Labs, definitely not meek

CanMania 2014: HiFiMAN showing some hot new cans

CanMania 2014: iFi and the stack of portable awesome

CanMania 2014: Headamp and the Purple Hawaii

CanMania 2014: Clear Tune Monitors drops in with flash and style

CanMania 2014: Stereodesk with Heed, Viva, Crayon and more, is personal audio heaven

CanMania 2014: Oppo Digital, huge on value, great on sound

CanMania 2014: Nothing fits like Glove Audio