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Noble Audio X is back on Massdrop

May 8, 2017

Noble X So, chances are, you missed the massive Massdrop release of Noble Audio’s least expensive in-ear monitor this past Winter. And as a result, you are a sad person. But no longer! Ha ha! Today, your sloth is forgiven! Callooh, callay! [...]

Mini-Review: Noble Audio X Universal from Massdrop

December 6, 2016

Noble Audio knows upside and down how to make an in-ear monitor look good and sound even better. And with the help of the audiophile retailing entrepreneurs at Massdrop, their new little marvel is available at the lowest price I’ve ever seen [...]

Massdrop and Noble Audio

December 1, 2016

New product announcement Press release from Noble Audio and Massdrop. NOBLE AUDIO’S MOST AFFORDABLE IEM AVAILABLE, EXCLUSIVELY FOR A LIMITED PERIOD ON MASSDROP Just 2,000 proprietary-driver Noble X IEMs available on this first run at $249/c.£200 [...]

RMAF 2016: JH Audio and a sweet sixteen

November 21, 2016

It’s always great seeing Andy and Sue Regan at JH Audio. Great, fun people with tremendous product knowledge and a relaxed air about them. They really had a nice setup at CanJam this year and some mighty fine sounding IEMs as usual. JH [...]

RMAF 2016: Empire Ears Rolling in the Deep with ADEL

November 18, 2016

Perhaps my favorite moment from RMAF boiled down to a nice man in a cap. This nice man may save us AC/DC fans from losing Brian Johnson and make it possible for us to get better and safer IEMs in the future. The man in the cap is Stephen Ambrose [...]

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 [...]

AXPONA 2016: Noble Audio, down the line

May 27, 2016

Lets talk about Steve Bug. If you’ve never heard of Steve Bug, I’m not sure what to tell you. He makes music that would generally fall under the “electronic” header (Dance/House), but beyond that, I’m translating from [...]

Review: Cardas A8 Inner Ear Monitors

May 1, 2016

My Blue Heaven Right now I’m typing this on a Delta flight to Madison, Wisconsin in early February. Yep, Wisconsin in early February! Yet there’s a big smile on my face, at least while I am sitting here, listening to Frank Sinatra’s Swingin [...]

CanJam SoCal 2016: Ultimate Ears in 3D

March 24, 2016

I want to say that the new Ultimate Ears 3D scanning procedure is “cool” or something, but after peering deep into my own ear canals and seeing what the audiologists have been seeing when they’ve taken the molds for the many, many [...]

CanJam SoCal 2016: Noble Audio reinvents Universal

March 23, 2016

Brannan Mason, the ultra-buff co-owner of Noble Audio, introduced a brand-spanking-new line of universal-fit in-ear monitors at CanJam last week, all featuring the new anodized shells first-seen with the flagship 10-driver Kaiser that was [...]