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First Listen: Noble Audio Kaiser 10 (K10) custom-fit in-ear monitors
|At AXPONA 2014 I experienced a ‘new-to-me/ discovery when I was introduced to Noble Audio (not to be confused with the great in-wall loudspeaker manufacturer Noble Fidelity) and Brannan Mason, one of the co-owners of ...read more -
First Listen: AURALiC GEMINI 2000 headphone amp/DAC/stand
|AURALIC’s GEMINI 2000 and 1000 products were first drawn to my attention, if I remember correctly, last October at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013. At the time, the products were in their final pre-production ...read more -
First Listen: HiFiMAN HE-560 Planar Magnetic Headphones
|Several months ago I received, as did a handful of headphone-minded audio journalists, a review pair of HiFiMAN’s latest HE-560 headphones. But, less than 24 hours after the headphones arrived, I got a message from ...read more -
iFi Nano iDSD portable DSD DAC/headphone amplifier
|Have you ever wondered what would happen if a high-end audio manufacturer with a reputation for sonic excellence applied itself wholeheartedly to designing affordable electronics for personal audio applications? As it happens, that very question ...read more -
iFi Nano iCAN portable headphone amplifier
|In high-end audio, context can be everything. Directly following this review, I have also prepared a review of iFi Audio’s Nano iDSD portable DAC/headphone amplifier, in which I observe that the iDSD can be a ...read more -
Westone W10 earphones
|Over the past year or so, the Colorado Springs, CO-based firm Westone has worked steadily and methodically to revise, update, and improve its several ranges of universal-fit earphones and custom-fit in-ear monitors. For those unfamiliar ...read more -
Chord Electronics Hugo DAC/Headphone amplifier
|Are those people crazy?” asked a high-end audio/headphone enthusiast who had just learned the suggested retail price of Chord’s new Hugo portable DAC/headphone amplifier. “That’s an awfully steep price for a portable.” “It’s certainly not ...read more -
First Listen: Final Audio Design Pandora Hope VI headphones
|I recently received the Hi-Fi+ review sample of the new Final Audio Design Pandora Hope VI headphone (£699.99) and have been exploring it with enthusiasm ever since. When the Pandora first arrived, the first surprise ...read more -
Follow-Up Listen: Magnepan DWM planar magnetic woofer panels
|If you happen to enjoy dipole planar loudspeakers such as those offered by Magnepan, then you may have discovered that there is a fair amount of online discussion as to whether those loudspeaker do or ...read more -
RHA MA750i Earphones
|RHA is a British (well, Scottish) audio manufacturer that aims to revise our thinking on what a genuinely modestly priced pair of earphones can be and do, both in terms of sound and build quality. ...read more -
Show Report: AXPONA 2014 - Digital Audio
|In most cases Hi-Fi+ show reports are presented in prose form with illustrations, but for this section we will take more of an image-intensive ‘Postcards from…’ approach. Thus, this is not an exhaustive report, but ...read more -
Show Report: AXPONA 2014 - Analogue Audio
|Normally Hi-Fi+ show reports are presented in prose form with illustrations, but for this section we will take more of an image-intensive ‘Postcards from…’ approach. Thus, this is not an exhaustive report, but rather presents ...read more -
Show Report: AXPONA 2014 - Headphones, etc.
|I spent this past weekend serving as the Hi-Fi+ emissary to the AXPONA 2014 show, held in the Westin O’hare Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, USA. For those of you not familiar with the show, let ...read more -
CEntrance HiFi-M8 DAC/Headphone amp
|The name CEntrance may not be familiar to many audiophiles just yet, but the odds are that at some point many of us have heard or enjoyed digital audio products that benefit from embedded CEntrance ...read more -
First Listen: NuForce Primo 8 phase-coherent, quad-driver earphone
|NuForce is, as many of you know, a fascinating Americo-Asian audio equipment manufacturer perhaps best known as a pioneer in Class D amplifier design. But those who know NuForce well recognise that there are several ...read more