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Buyers Guide

Best Headphone Gear | Buyers Guide 2023

December 4, 2022 Editorial Staff 0

Welcome to the Best Headphone Gear section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

HubCon 2022

Jameson Mourafetis featuring Abyss, RAAL, Audeze | HUBCON 2022

July 9, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on Jameson Mourafetis featuring Abyss, RAAL, Audeze | HUBCON 2022

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

Headphones

Review: HiFiMan Susvara headphones, assault on the state of the art

February 24, 2018 Panagiotis Karavitis Comments Off on Review: HiFiMan Susvara headphones, assault on the state of the art

This is not for the faint of heart, or wallet. If you think headphones have reached overwhelmingly high prices spare your time and don’t read this review. You have been warned. Walking down the Munich […]

Munich 2017

High End 2017: Reaching for the Abyss

June 14, 2017 Panagiotis Karavitis Comments Off on High End 2017: Reaching for the Abyss

Going deep, abyss deep has been a trademark for JPS Lab’s/ Abyss Joe Skubinski, designer of the absolute flagship headphone for years. The AB-1266 has been among our favorites here at Part Time and I […]

Audio-Life

Dr’s Orders: Push it to the limit

May 2, 2017 Panagiotis Karavitis 1

A good Dr. should never insist on having his patients pushing themselves to the limit but this is audio and the limit of what is possible is a good thing with only one major hiccup, […]

RMAF 2016

RMAF 2016: Lee at the End of Line and Best in Show

December 13, 2016 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2016: Lee at the End of Line and Best in Show

I approached this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest with a strange mix of excitement and trepidation.  The long-time venue of the Denver Tech Center Marriott was in the midst of significant construction which literally shut […]

RMAF 2016

RMAF 2016: Abyss and Woo Audio, with Mytek

November 19, 2016 Lee Scoggins 2

Scot had me covering several CanJam titles but one of the best headphone rigs was outside of the tent in the Tower at the Marriott. Here I found Joe Skubinski’s Abyss Headphones paired with the Woo […]

CanJam SoCal 2016

CanJam SoCal 2016: Wells Audio shows a triple threat

April 3, 2016 Scot Hull 1

Wells Audio has some good marketing advisors — they’ve come crashing into the headphone market with some serious offerings, all scattered across a variety of price points. First up is the Enigma, a $3,699 headphone […]

CanJam SoCal 2016

CanJam SoCal 2016: Portable tubes with Woo Audio

March 31, 2016 Scot Hull Comments Off on CanJam SoCal 2016: Portable tubes with Woo Audio

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 […]

Headphones

Review: HiFiMAN HE1000 flagship headphones

November 7, 2015 Editorial Staff 10

by John Grandberg The proliferation of really-high-end headphones is undeniable. Back in the day, a $500 headphone was considered expensive, and the few thousand-dollar-plus models in existence were typically limited-edition rarities. Nowadays? Not so much. […]

RMAF 2015

RMAF 2015: CanJam round up

November 6, 2015 Scot Hull 1

Hitting the CanJam at RMAF is a highlight for me, and an instant reminder of the health and vibrancy of (at least one corner) of the high-end audio industry. This year, there were too many […]

RMAF 2015

RMAF 2015: Abyss and Lampizator, clarity and finesse

October 14, 2015 Lee Scoggins 3

The hype around the LampizatOr products from Poland has also been building for a while, but my experience with that brand has been zip. I got a chance to fix that when I ran across Bruce Brown […]

Headphones

Review: Woo Audio WA5LE v2 vacuum tube headphone amplifier

September 27, 2015 Scot Hull 9

Woo Audio offers a remarkably deep bench for those headphonistas interested in vacuum tube amplifiers. But when it comes to the 300b, arguably the finest audio tube the world has ever known, Woo Audio has only a couple […]

Awards

Best of 2014 and The Product of the Year

December 31, 2014 Scot Hull 11

It was the best of times. It was the not-best-of-times. But whatever it was, and wherever it lies on the Arc of Interesting, 2014 saw some pretty amazing stuff and some truly inspiring stories, and […]

Announcements

Holiday Headphone Deals for your Geek Pulse and Geek Soul

December 11, 2014 Scot Hull 3

I’ve seen a few interesting developments over at the LH Labs’ crowd-funding adventure for the Geek Pulse and Geek Soul, two DAC/headphone amplifiers, aimed at bringing their high-end sound to a less costly price point. […]

RMAF 2014

RMAF 2014: Staring into the Abyss

November 2, 2014 Scot Hull 2

I got to meet Joe Skubinski of JPS Labs and Abyss Headphones at RMAF this year, which was fun after spending so much time this year with his flagship headphones, the Abyss AB-1266. I was […]

Headphones

Best in Class, a Review (Part 2): Abyss AB-1266 headphones

October 5, 2014 Scot Hull 10

I can keenly recall a time in my not-too-distant past where I was openly dismissive of headphones as even a passable translator of audio joy. Said a bit more bluntly, I thought the entire segment to […]

Headphones

Best in Class, a Review (Part 1): Cavalli Audio Liquid Gold

October 3, 2014 Scot Hull 5

Market and Value High-End Audio, as a market segment, is a weird and fickle beast. It’s not really even a single market at all, but rather an odd agglomeration of (not unrelated) segments, including consumer […]

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New York 2014

New York 2014: Woo Audio creates audio oasis, hints at portable

October 2, 2014 Scot Hull 1

My buddy Michael Liang of Woo Audio ushered me right over to the lucite case. “See?” he said. “We’re going portable.” In the case was a blank, a white plastic mock-up of what might someday be called […]

Headphones

E.A.R. HP4 Headphone Amplifier | Review

September 26, 2014 Scot Hull 4

I’m going to confess something. Ready? Headphones and headphone audio systems can be hard to like. The issue is context, for me. I come at audio’s high-end by way of two-channel and multi-channel audio systems. Big […]

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