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First Listen: YG Acoustics’ flagship Sonja XV four-tower loudspeaker system
|This past weekend I had the privilege of representing Hi-Fi+ at a very special private demonstration of YG Acoustics’ new flagship Sonja XV (XV stands for ‘eXtreme Version’) four-tower loudspeaker system, which was held in ...read more -
ENIGMAcoustics Dharma D1000 hybrid dynamic/electrostatic headphone
|Most audiophiles first learned of ENIGMAcoustics through the firm’s Sopranino self-biased electrostatic supertweeter (reviewed in Hi-Fi+ Issue 99), which was developed as an add-on enhancement for use with high-end loudspeakers. Later, applying Sopranino technology in ...read more -
First Listen – Schiit Audio’s new Jotunheim
|The past weekend I had the privilege of attending an event called ‘Schiit Show II’, which was sponsored, of course, by Schiit Audio and held at the Marina del Rey Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. ...read more -
Highlights from CanJam London 2016 (part two)
|Welcome to the concluding part of our round up of the highs and even highers of CanJam London 2016. During a balmy weekend in the middle of August, CanJam arrived with a view of Big ...read more -
Highlights from CanJam London 2016 (part one)
|This past weekend (August 13-14, 2016) Hi-Fi+ Publisher Chris Martens and Hi-Fi+ Editor Alan Sircom attended CanJam London 2016, which is was held in the Park Plaza Hotel in central London and was without a ...read more -
MrSpeakers Ether C v1.1 closed-back planar magnetic headphone
|Odd though it may seem, the California-based firm MrSpeakers doesn’t make loudspeakers; instead, it makes world-class headphones at sensible prices. The company name derives from the fact that company founder Dan Clark was, at an ...read more -
HiFiMAN HE-400S planar magnetic headphones
|HiFiMAN has been at the forefront of planar magnetic headphone technology for many years. Several of its headphones have been featured prominently here in Hi-Fi+ by our own Chris Martens. Recently HiFiMAN and its creative ...read more -
T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2016: Chris Martens' Best in Show
|T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach, California is perhaps the best example of how to make a friendly, professional audio show. It might not be the biggest event in the calendar – and coming soon after ...read more -
Headphones, etc. - A Baker's Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|At the Munich High End show one of my assignment(s) involved new headphones and headphone-related products. Compared to years past (and to some shows I have attended in the US and the UK), there were ...read more -
Schiit Audio Yggdrasil DAC and Ragnarok headphone/integrated amplifier
|Schiit Audio is the brainchild of two high-end audio veterans: Jason Stoddard, former design chief of Sumo Electronics, and Mike Moffat, founder of Theta Digital. As you might expect from their company’s unorthodox name (which ...read more -
Digital Sources – A Baker’s Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|The Munich High End show is massive and my assignment(s) this year involved several key product categories, one of which was digital source components. Since I visited nearly 110 different manufacturers over the course of ...read more -
Analogue Sources – A Baker’s Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|At Munich High End 2016, one of my key coverage topics was Analogue source components. However, given that I visited over 110 manufacturers at the show, it quickly became apparent that doing a brand-by-brand show ...read more -
Riva Turbo X Bluetooth loudspeaker system
|Since you are reading this magazine, odds are you already own a full-fledged hi-fi system—probably a very good one and quite possibly one that your friends and colleagues consider ‘expensive’. However, if you think back ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2016 Report, Part 4
|Below, please find Part 4 of our four-part SoCal CanJam 2016 report highlighting—in alphabetical order—a set of manufacturers ranging from Questyle to WyWires. Enjoy. Questyle Questyle Audio Engineering’s CanJam SoCal 2016 demonstrations were, to a ...read more -
RHA Audio S500i universal-fit earphones
|As high-end audio enthusiasts, the components we enjoy tend to be, by normal mortals’ standards, crazily expensive. There are many people who love music (passionately so), but are not made of cubic money, and therefore ...read more