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Sennheiser Momentum In-Ear Wireless earphones
|There has been a profound change in the portable audio market, thanks to Apple abandoning the headphone jack in the iPhone 7. The result is – understandably – sales of wired headphones have fallen away. ...read more -
Pathos InPol Ear headphone amplifier
|Pathos and its innovative InPol amplifier circuit has been around for some time – in fact, the Inseguitore Pompa Lineare circuit was patented by Pathos back when the company was founded in 1994 – but ...read more -
Onkyo DP-S1 digital audio player
|The Onkyo DP-S1 is the second of two collaborative digital audio players between the brand and its stablemate Pioneer. The first pairing – the Onkyo DP-X1 and Pioneer XDP-100R – were larger, Android-based players originally ...read more -
Stax SRS-3100 electrostatic 'earspeaker' system
|Stax holds a special place in the music lover’s heart. It’s the high-performance electrostatic headphone that even those who don’t like headphones enjoy. But, goes the logic, only a select few can get to enjoy ...read more -
iFi Audio Micro iDSD Black Label portable headphone amp, preamp, and DAC
|iFi Audio is a spin-off from the well-respected British high-end audio company Abbingdon Music Research (or AMR for short). Leveraging design know-how drawn from AMR, the iFi team has set as its mission the creation ...read more -
Fostex TH610 headphones and HPA4BL DAC/Headphone amplifier
|Fostex is a name which conjures up professional audio, and, in my particular audio experience, Reel-to-Reel machines! In fact, Fostex was formed as an offshoot of the Foster Electric company in 1973, the parent company ...read more -
HiFiMAN Shangri-La electrostatic headphone system
|I first met Fang Bian (now Dr Fang Bian), the founder and President of HiFiMAN, a number of years ago and our interactions at the time centred on the firm’s early-generation HE-5LE planar magnetic headphones. ...read more -
RHA MA650 earphones
|From the RHA press release: GLASGOW, UK: RHA have launched a new headphone geared towards Android device users. Using a custom dynamic driver (model 380.1) to deliver RHA’s signature sound quality with intuitive functionality for ...read more -
CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 – Part 3 Personal Audio Electronics
|What follows is a Part 3 in a four=part series of snapshot-style reports on new (or at least new-ish) personal audio products seen at CanJam RMAF 2017. For the sake of clarity, we have broken ...read more -
CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 – Part 2, Earphones & CIEMs
|What follows is Part 2 in a four-part series of snapshot-style reports on new (or at least new-ish) personal audio products seen at CanJam RMAF 2017. For the sake of clarity, we have broken out ...read more -
CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 – Part 1, Headphones
|By tradition, CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest is one of the largest and most vibrant CanJam events of the year and CanJam RMAF 2017, held on October 6 – 8, certainly did not disappoint. ...read more -
AudioQuest NightOwl headphones
|AudioQuest used to be best known for a vast range of high-performance audio cables. It still makes those cables – covering every base from ‘cheap as chips’ to ‘I’ll collect them in my Friday helicopter’ ...read more -
Noble Audio Kaiser Encore universal-fit earphones
|I first encountered Noble Audio a number of years ago when the firm’s reigning flagship was the Kaiser 10 custom-fit in-ear monitor, which I reviewed in Hi-Fi+ issue 119. As it turns out, the Kaiser ...read more -
Meet Your Maker – Westone Laboratories
|It’s a mistake to underestimate Westone. On the face of it, to the untutored audiophile eye, Westone comes across as a relatively small, if powerfully professional company making high-quality earphones and custom-fit in-ear monitors. Westone ...read more -
Oppo Digital Sonica DAC
|Many enthusiasts recognise Oppo Digital as a manufacturer of overachieving universal disc players, high performance planar magnetic headphones, and related personal audio electronics. But, over the past year or two, Oppo has begun to explore ...read more