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GoldenEar Technology Triton Seven loudspeakers
|I enjoy über-high-end audio equipment as much as the next fellow, but I nevertheless have an abiding fondness for overachieving products that deliver high levels of performance for reasonable sums of money. I suppose this ...read more -
First Look: CEntrance HiFi-M8 balanced-output portable headphone amp/DAC
|This blog is to give you some first impressions of a very significant new product that will be coming up for a full review in Hi-Fi+ within the next several issues. The product is the ...read more -
Cardas Audio EM5813 Ear Speakers
|While Cardas Audio’s EM5813 Model 1 Ear Speaker is a relatively new arrival in the marketplace, it has been under development for years. To his great credit, company founder and Ear Speaker developer George Cardas ...read more -
Snapshots from RMAF 2013 - Electronics & Source Components
|This article is the second in a two-part series that we’ve called “Snapshots from RMAF 2013”. Rather than a blog, what follows is more an annotated picture album designed to give you a bit of ...read more -
Snapshots from RMAF 2013 - Loudspeakers
|Rather than being a blog in the purest, truest sense of the term, what follows is more an annotated picture album—a pastiche designed to give you a bit of the flavour of the Hi-Fi+ team’s ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 2
|What follows is a mostly pictorial survey of new headphone, earphone, and related products seen and heard at RMAF—some of which will become review subjects in Hi-Fi+ and/or our US-based sister publication The Absolute Sound ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 1
|Over roughly the past decade an alternate high-end audio universe has been emerging—a universe centered on very high-performance headphones, earphones, portable and desktop headphone amplifiers, and amp/DACS. In short, it is a world that might ...read more -
MartinLogan Mikros 70 Earphones
|With the Mikros 70 earphone, MartinLogan has joined the growing group of loudspeaker manufacturers now offering products targeted toward headphone enthusiasts. Given MartinLogan’s hard-won reputation as one of the world’s premier makers of hybrid electrostatic ...read more -
Sennheiser Momentum Headphones (Hi-Fi+)
|Amongst audiophiles, the German firm Sennheiser has long been famous for its critically acclaimed top-tier HD-series headphones (specifically, the HD 600, HD 650, HD 700, and HD 800), all of which are high-performance, open-back, circumaural ...read more -
HiFiMAN HE-6 Planar Magnetic Headphones (Playback, for HI-Fi+)
|(This review, originally published on June 25, 2010 in Issue 37 of our sister online publication Playback, focused on the then new HiFiMAN HE-6 headphone--one of several models that helped to spark a dramatic resurgence ...read more -
Best of the Best: Stax SR-009 Electrostatic Headphone
|As we move into the second decade of the 21st century, it seems apparent that not only is traditional high-end audio thriving, but there has also sprung up an alternate, parallel high-end audio universe whose ...read more -
Best of the Best - Nottingham Analogue Studios Space 294
|Some years back and writing for our US-based sister publication The Absolute Sound I had the opportunity to review the intensely iconoclastic and decidedly British Nottingham Analogue Studios Space 294 turntable and tonearm. Coming upon ...read more -
Interview with PSB's Paul Barton on High-End Headphones
|Hi-Fi+ Publisher Chris Martens recently had an opportunity to catch up with Paul Barton, founder of and chief designer for PSB Speakers of Ontario, Canada. In particular, we took the opportunity to ask Mr. Barton ...read more -
First Listen: Abyss AB-1266 Planar Magnetic Headphones
|Is the $5,495 Abyss AB-1266 planar magnetic headphone the best device of its kind on the planet? Based on some preliminary listening I’ve recently done, I think it very well might be. However, what follows ...read more -
First Listen: Cavalli Audio Liquid Gold Fully-Balanced Headphone Amplifier
|Cavalli Audio will soon begin the first production run for a new, ultra-high-end solid-state, fully balanced headphone amplifier called the Liquid Gold (there may be an allusion to Harry Potter’s molten gold-coloured Felix Felicis potion ...read more