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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
HiFiMAN has a large catalog of personal audio products, including digital audio players, headphones, amplifiers and everything you’d need to connect them. Where [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]