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Munich High End 2017 – Loudspeakers €15K and below
|Most Promising Newcomers ELAC Adante floorstander prototype ELAC loudspeaker design guru Andrew Jones brought newly assembled prototypes of his upcoming Adante floorstanding loudspeakers (to Munich and we found their sound promising to say the least. ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Analogue Sources
|Most Promising Newcomers Acoustic Signature Merlin turntable & tone arm In the pantheon of fine turntable/tone arm rigs from the German firm Acoustic Signature, the entry-level models have traditionally been affordable, but not too many ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Headphones & Personal Audio
|Most Promising Newcomers Abyss Diana planar Ever since launching its superb-sounding but also large and unorthodox-looking AB-1266 planar magnetic headphone, the Abyss team has had a vision of creating a smaller, lighter, somewhat less expensive, ...read more -
Moon Audio Black Dragon Premium V2 headphone cable
|One sign of the growing maturity of the high-end headphone marketplace is the number of cable manufacturers now offering specialised headphone signal cable sets. One such manufacturer is the Cary, North Carolina-based firm Moon Audio, ...read more -
Westone Laboratories W80 universal-fit earphone
|Long-term Hi-Fi+ readers will know that Westone Laboratories, a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based firm, is a quiet giant in the world of hearing and music-related in-ear devices and technologies. With good reason the company’s slogan is, ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 4
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 –Part 3
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
Questyle Audio Engineering CMA600i headphone amp/preamp/DAC
|More than many manufacturers of high-end audio electronics, Questyle is an engineering-driven firm led by the talented audio technologist Wang Fengshuo (whose anglicised name is Jason Wang). Thus far, Mr Wang’s greatest single contribution to ...read more -
HiFiMAN HE1000 V2 and Edition X V2 planar magnetic headphones
|Long term Hi-Fi+ readers know that we hold several of the top-tier planar magnetic headphones from the Chinese firm HiFiMAN in very high regard—most notably the flagship HE 1000 (reviewed in issue 126 and recipient ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 2
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2017 – Part 1
|On the weekend before Easter, Hi-Fi+ Associate Publisher Pete Collingwood-Trewin and I took the opportunity to visit CanJam SoCal, which was held at the JW Marriott hotel in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The ...read more -
Noble Katana Universal-Fit and Custom-Fit In-Ear Monitors
|Over the years Hi-Fi+ has covered a number of multi-driver-equipped, custom-fit in-ear monitors (CIEMs) from Noble Audio, including the then flagship Kaiser 10 (issue 119), the 4S (issue 127), and the Savant (issue 137). The ...read more -
Final SONOROUS III headphones
|Final is a well-regarded Japanese manufacturer of high-performance headphones and earphones; the company started out in 1974 as Final Audio Design under the leadership of the legendary audio designer Kanemori Takai. Sadly, Takai-san passed away ...read more -
iFi Audio Pro iCAN balanced, hybrid valve/solid state headphone amp/preamp
|My very first exposure to the iFi Audio brand, which is a spin-off of the British high-end audio electronics manufacturer Abbingdon Music Research (AMR), came at an audio show a number of years ago. I ...read more -
Schiit Audio Jotunheim headphone amp/preamp
|For many years Schiit Audio staunchly resisted building combination headphone amp/DACs, their thinking being that DAC technology typically evolves much faster than amplifier technology, meaning that amp/DACs are potentially in danger of growing obsolete more ...read more