Announcements

August 17, 2017 in Announcements // The high price of Vinyl: Electric Recording Co. releases Music for Viola & Cello at $385 USD
August 15, 2017 in Announcements // Devialet unveils partnership for TV audio hardware with UK giant Sky
August 9, 2017 in Announcements // Review updates: Harbeth, DeVore, Totem, Pass Labs, totaldac, AudioQuest, Pro-Ject, PS Audio… coming from Rafe
July 27, 2017 in Announcements // Burwell & Sons showcase Plain Jane, unveil new active and passive loudspeakers at California Audio Show
July 26, 2017 in Announcements // GoldenEar Triton References: in Dealers Now and Ready for Audition
July 25, 2017 in Announcements // Grado Labs Introduces Their Finest Cartridges: EPOCH and AEON
July 22, 2017 in Announcements // Lyn Stanley’s MOONLIGHT SESSIONS: VOLUME TWO Release Date 8/15
July 21, 2017 in Announcements // AudioQuest shipping Beetle Optical DAC with Asynchronous USB/Bluetooth
July 19, 2017 in Announcements // Rega launches all-new Planar 6 with Neo PSU, Ania moving-coil cartridge
July 14, 2017 in Announcements // Roon releases MQA Detection update
July 13, 2017 in Announcements // Devialet Air and Roon turn the stream into reality
July 10, 2017 in Announcements // Rotel introduces new integrated amplifier, preamplifier and CD player
July 6, 2017 in Announcements // McIntosh Announces new MA9000 Integrated Amplifier
June 30, 2017 in Announcements // VPI Industries $900 USD Cliffwood turntable with Grado cartridge shipping this summer
June 29, 2017 in Announcements // Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs shipping turntables, cartridges, phono stages
June 27, 2017 in Announcements // Noble Audio Wizard Birthday Sale Hits Wednesday for 45 Hours Only
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

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