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First Listen: Aurender Flow portable headphone amp/DAC/preamp
|Most audiophiles associate the name Aurender with the firm’s range of highly accomplished music servers, and rightly so. More than many competitors in the field, Aurender has demonstrated that it is keenly attuned to the ...read more -
Oppo HA-1 desktop headphone amplifier/DAC
|Best known for its high-performance, high-value universal disc players, Oppo has expanded into the high-end headphone and personal audio electronics marketplace. First came the firm’s flagship PM-1 planar-magnetic headphones (reviewed in issue 115 and 116), ...read more -
Noble Audio Kaiser 10 custom-fit in-ear monitor
|For those not familiar with the terminology, ‘custom-fit in-ear monitors’ (CIEMs) are very high performance in-ear headphones whose earpieces have been custom-moulded to fit the exact contours of their owners’ ears. When properly made, CIEMs ...read more -
GoldenEar Technology Triton One floorstanding loudspeaker
|Hi-Fi+ normally doesn’t run taglines as lead-ins to its review articles, but if we did the tagline for this review of GoldenEar’s Triton One loudspeakers it would probably read as follows: “Great for the price ...read more -
CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 – Electronics, Source Components, and Servers/Streamers
|Most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the aforementioned upper floors of the Venetian Hotel, although by tradition some high-end headphone manufacturers continue to exhibit in the LVCC’s South Hall. Added to this, there ...read more -
CES: Highlights from the Venetian and LVCC South Hall – Headphones and Related Electronics
|This year at CES Hi-Fi+ decided to try a new approach, assigning representatives to cover specific geographic areas of the show for reporting purposes. Happily, most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the upper ...read more -
CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 - Loudspeakers
|For those Hi-Fi+ readers who might never have had the opportunity to attend CES, let me try to give you some idea of the sheer magnitude of the event. CES sprawls across four large convention ...read more -
Postcards from Las Vegas (part two)
|In Part 1 of our ‘Postcards from Las Vegas” series, Hi-Fi+ Editor Alan Sircom provides and excellent overview of the 2015 CES event. For my part of the article, however, I thought I might provide ...read more -
RHA Audio T10i Earphones
|Roughly a year a go I penned a Hi-Fi+ web exclusive review of a very fine and surprisingly affordable earphone called the MA750i from the Scottish firm RHA. (http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/rha-ma750i-earphones/) If you read that review then ...read more -
First Listen: LH Labs Geek Out 1000 USB dongle-type headphone amp/DAC
|A number of months back, some of you may recall a surge of Internet buzz surrounding the LH Labs Geek Out—a small, but powerful and very high-quality USB-powered, dongle-type headphone amp/DAC. Part of what drew ...read more -
First Listen: JH Audio Roxanne custom-fit in-ear monitors
|A significant page on the JH Audio website declares that, “JH Audio combines over 25 years’ experience in live audio mixing with more than 15 years of designing and building in-ear monitors…” The firm, founded ...read more -
HiFiMAN HE-560 planar-magnetic headphones
|For the past several years the Chinese personal audio electronics and headphone specialist HiFiMAN has been making waves with its broad family of high performance headphones, almost all of which use planar magnetic driver technologies. ...read more -
Peachtree Audio nova 220SE
|Three essential insights have driven Peachtree Audio from the beginning. First, the firm was quick to grasp that computer audio would likely become the preferred music delivery vehicle for growing numbers of music lovers, young ...read more -
Peachtree Audio Nova 220SE integrated amplifier/DAC/headphone amplifier
|Three essential insights have driven Peachtree Audio from the beginning. First, the firm was quick to grasp that computer audio would likely become the preferred music delivery vehicle for growing numbers of music lovers, young ...read more -
First Listen: Oppo HA-1 desktop headphone amplifier/DAC/preamp
|As Hi-Fi+ readers know, we have been closely following Oppo Digital’s ongoing expansion in the high-end headphone and personal audio electronics marketplace. First came the firm’s flagship PM-1 planar magnetic headphones (reviewed in issue 1xx), ...read more