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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 -
First Listen: Oppo PM-1 planar magnetic headphones
|Back before the turn of the year, I received a message from Jason Liao, Oppo Digital’s Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Product Development, asking if I would like to sample a very early ...read more -
Cavalli Audio Liquid Gold fully-balanced headphone amplifier
|Over the past several years Dr. Alex Cavalli, a gifted consulting physicist and engineer, quietly has been developing some of the most ambitious and best sounding headphone amplifiers ever made. First came the hybrid valve/solid-state ...read more -
First Listen: Magnepan 3.7i loudspeaker
|Introduction: Over the past several years Magnepan made waves by re-vamping its loudspeaker product line from stem to stern, leading to the release of (in ascending order of price and performance) the New MMG, Super ...read more -
Peachtree Audio nova125 integrated amplifier/DAC
|Some years ago, Peachtree recognized that a seismic shift in the high-end audio universe was at hand—a shift wherein PCs would step outside of their traditional roles as office tools to become full-fledged digital audio ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Adds Hundreds of Articles from AVguide.com, Playback, and The Perfect Vision
|From the latter half of 2013 to the present, the www.hifiplus.com content archives have slowly but surely been filled with hundreds of articles originally published on AVguide.com and in Playback and The Perfect Vision magazines. ...read more -
Anthony Gallo Acoustics Reference Strada 2 monitors with TR-3d subwoofer
|Anthony Gallo has always been an iconoclastic loudspeaker designer and thus his speakers neither look nor sound like the majority of their competitors. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Gallo’s otherworldly Reference Strada 2 ...read more -
First Look: HiFiMAN HM-901 high-resolution digital music player/DAC
|What follows is a “First Look” blog about a very special high-performance digital audio player that has, if truth be told, gone through one of the longest gestation periods in personal audio history. The product ...read more -
Abyss AB-1266 planar magnetic headphones
|Several years ago Joe Skubinski, the founder of the high-end audio cable company JPS Labs, took a momentous decision. Specifically, he decided to spin off a sub-division of JPS Labs for the specific purpose of ...read more -
First Look: iFi iDSD nano DAC/headphone amp & iCAN nano headphone amp
|Early this year I wrote a blog about iFi Audio’s iCAN nano headphone amplifier (click here to read), but mentioned at the time that my findings were based on a pilot production sample and not ...read more -
First Listen: Chord Electronics Hugo portable high res DAC/headphone amp
|A Hi-Fi+ review project I’m working on at the moment involves the Chord Electronics Hugo portable high res DAC/headphone amp, which is priced at $2,395 in the US or £1,200 in the UK. In practice ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA Digital Audio Processor
|AURALiC’s VEGA Digital Audio Processor (£2,890) is a powerful and versatile digital-to-analogue converter that can also serve as a digital input-only, balanced output-capable preamplifier. Specifically, the VEGA supports all PCM files from 44.1 kHz/16-bit resolution ...read more -
Head-Fi meet in Austin, TX
|It occurs to me that many readers familiar with the traditional world of speaker-centric high-end audio systems may be unaware that there is a rapidly evolving, parallel high-end audio universe that revolves around high-end headphones, ...read more -
CES 2014: Headphone, Earphones, and Related Electronics – Part 3
|If I had to name one broad high-end audio product category that is growing rapidly and for all the right reasons, that category would be Headphones, Earphones, and the specialised electronics needed to drive them. ...read more -
CES 2014: Headphone, Earphones, and Related Electronics – Part 2
|If I had to name one broad high-end audio product category that is growing rapidly and for all the right reasons, that category would be Headphones, Earphones, and the specialised electronics needed to drive them. ...read more