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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
An Audio360.org Review by Warren Chi & Michael Liang Avid personal audio enthusiasts know that hearing a wide variety of gear can breed apathy, making us jaded, blasé and hard-to-please. As such, it is indeed […]
Auralic was tucked into a corner at CanJam, and I nearly missed the table. Glad I didn’t! The Gemini series is a new desktop-friendly DAC/can-amp combo that features “trickle-down” tech from the excellent Vega product […]
Darren Censullo of Avatar Acoustics was showing off a whole suite of nifty widgets from budget-minded iFi Audio. He had the entire lineup, stacked, which made for a rather interesting presentation — but the sound […]
Woo Audio had a couple of displays here at RMAF, including a table at CanJam and a room up in the Atrium. Down at CanJam, Simon showed me an absolutely fascinating upgrade to the WA7 […]
At the urging of Audio-Head’s Brian Hunter, I thought CanJam would be a most excellent place to explore the world of custom In-Ear Monitors. IEMs are popular with all manner of folks, especially folks that […]
by Stan Ahn, Warren Chi, Michael Liang and Michael Mercer For personal and portable high-fidelity enthusiasts all around the country, there is one very special time of year where we congregate en masse. It is […]
Sony is making a big play in the high-resolution audio space, leveraging both their expertise and deep background with SACD and the huge library of high-res music files along with their penchant for sweet electronics. […]
Schiit Audio has two new offerings, on wildly opposing sides of the price spectrum. Say hello to Vali, a tube hybrid head-amp for $119.
Rememeber the Audiophile Desktop from CEntrance? Let me refresh your memory. $2,000 gets you a CEntrance DACmini PX, a pair of Masterclass 2504 speakers, and a hefty Pelican case to lug them around in. The PX […]
–by Brian Hunter Anyone who has spent time with the headphone community has undoubtedly crossed paths with Woo Audio at some point. Jack Wu has been producing quality amplifier pieces on both the loudspeaker and […]
Spent some time hanging out with my pal Simon from Woo Audio, lamenting about how hard it is to set up a demo room at an audio show. All that fussing with positioning, room nodes, […]
Here’s a novel way to deal with problematic audio show room-acoustics: don’t bring speakers. Instead, Woo Audio brought boatloads of headphones and amplifiers to power them. Tubes were everywhere! Music got served up off of […]
Michael Mercer over at CEntrance twisted my arm (ha ha!) about bringing in a new package that they’re positioning for the audiophile’s desktop, called, conveniently enough, the Audiophile Desktop. $2,000 gets you a CEntrance DACmini […]
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