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CanJam London 2017 show – part one
|The first part of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017. This time, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom run through all the products up to and ...read more -
Headphones & Personal Audio at the L.A. Audio Show 2017
|The inaugural L.A. Audio Show 2017 featured an extensive HeadGear showroom, plus something new and valuable: namely, an XTREME HeadGear room reserved exclusively for top-tier models of proven performance capabilities. Since the L.A. Show followed ...read more -
RHA Audio DACAMP L1 portable high-res DAC and headphone amplifier
|Those of you who have followed Hi-Fi+ over time know that we hold the Scottish firm RHA Audio in high regard as a manufacturer of sensibly priced high performance earphones, many of which have been ...read more -
Moon by Simaudio 230HAD headphone amplifier
|More than a year ago Hi-Fi+ favourably reviewed Moon by Simaudio’s superb Neo 430 HAD headphone amp/preamp/DSD DAC and found it to be a world-class product—one even the most particular headphonistas could happily embrace as ...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 -
Hi-Fi+ Interviews Jude Mansilla of Head-Fi and Ethan Opolion of CanJam Global - Part 1
|Head-Fi is without a doubt the largest online community of headphone and personal audio enthusiasts in the world, while CanJam Global is an organisation that, under the auspices of Head-Fi, produces an international series of ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Interviews Jude Mansilla of Head-Fi and Ethan Opolion of CanJam Global - Part 2
|Head-Fi is without a doubt the largest online community of headphone and personal audio enthusiasts in the world, while CanJam Global is an organisation that, under the auspices of Head-Fi, produces an international series of ...read more -
Win! Fabulous HiFiMAN headphones and Digital Audio Players worth £3,490!
|We've teamed up with those wonderful folks at HiFiMAN for a chance to win one of ten excellent prizes. Ten lucky winners will be selected at random at CanJam London to win one of the ...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 -
Copland DAC215 headphone DAC/amplifier
|There are two distinct avenues for headphone amplification today – either buying a product from a brand with a well-established reputation for making headphone-based products, or from a brand that makes traditional two-channel audio that ...read more -
Base Audio Reflex G7 headphones
|The headphone market is in a constant state of flux. The old-school ‘big guns’ (Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, Sony) have been challenged, first by Beats, and more recently by smaller start-ups with maybe just one or two ...read more -
Music First Audio Classic Headphone Preamplifier
|Music First Audio is a British company best known for making a range of high-performance passive magnetic preamplifiers. It has recently branched out to make phono stages with active gain stages. The new Classic Headphone ...read more