headphone

AXPONA 2017: Sonoma M1 Headphone System

June 2, 2017

I’ve written about the Sonoma M1s before but what made their AXPONA room different this time was that these were no longer in prototype form. In fact, the Sonoma team had formed a partnership with Chad Kassem’s Acoustic [...]

Review: SPL Phonitor X headphone amplifier

March 17, 2017

I’ve got a somewhat complicated relationship status with headphone listening. It’s something we’re working through, and perhaps I’m being too needy. The thing is I feel that I’m getting shortchanged on the big [...]

RMAF 2016 VIDEO: Noble Audio’s Brannan Mason discusses the technology behind the brand’s IEMs

October 19, 2016

Brannan Mason is the co-owner of Noble Audio, and in Denver at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival he was able to spend some time talking with Part-Time Audiophile about Nobel’s current lineup, company philosophy, manufacturing details, aural [...]

Review: Focal Spirit Professional and NAD Viso HP50 headphones

July 11, 2015

by Brian Hunter Headphones are continuing to see a surge at nearly every pricepoint, but none is so competitive as the mainstream “High End” of $300 clearly set up by Beats, followed in turn by big alternative manufacturers like Sennheiser, [...]

Review: Beyerdynamic T-1 Headphone

July 4, 2015

by John Grandberg Beyerdynamic’s flagship T1 – a landmark headphone if ever there was one. But I don’t necessarily mean that in the way you think I mean it… allow me to explain. To get the background for this discussion we [...]

Headphone virus pandemic hitting Greece: The First Greek Headphone Festival

October 2, 2014

Speaking with other sick people hi-fi enthusiasts about the global headphone pandemic we both arrived at the same conclusion. This has been the fastest spreading trend in the hi-fi world since….ever. Only a few years back headphones were used by [...]

Wiring up Flagship Headphones with Double Helix Cables

July 23, 2014

At some point in the recent past, I got a wild hair up my netherwheres about headphone cables and spent a few weeks wringing my hands about the relative impact that stock cables make on the performance of their attached headphones. Starting a [...]

Super Duper Geek Out Arrives!

March 16, 2014

Guess what showed this week? My Kickstarter Green headphone awesomifier! I ordered the 1 watt output version, so that makes this a Super-Duper Geek Out. I’m super-duper psyched. Oh, if you missed your opportunity during the crowd-sourcing [...]

First Look: JH Audio Roxanne Custom In-Ear Monitor

March 15, 2014

JH Audio sent me a pair of custom in-ear monitors from their new Sirens line, the Roxanne. Roxanne retails for $1,599 (the “carbon fiber” option adds $500). The Roxanne is an incredible work in miniature — there are 12 drivers per [...]

Enter Pono

March 8, 2014

Chris Connaker at ComputerAudiophile has the scoop on the Pono Player coming soon from Neil Young et al. For those of you that missed the teaser blitz last year, Pono is not a digital Toblerone, it’s a portable high-resolution audio player. [...]