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Chord & Major earphones
|Chord & Major is a new name in the in-ear ‘space’; a Taiwanese brand with a range of similarly priced earphones designed with subtle variations in finish and voice to suit the tastes of different ...read more -
CES Scene: Ten Fascinating New Headphones & related components
|As many Hi-Fi+ readers know, I am an ardent fan of all things headphone-related, so naturally I volunteered to cover the product category at CES. What I present, below, is a handpicked list of ten ...read more -
First Listen: HiFiMAN Edition X planar magnetic headphone
|Hi-Fi+ has actively followed the evolution of HiFiMAN planar headphone designs, most recently taking a long and careful look at the firm’s impressive flagship model: the HE 1000, which has received recognition as our ‘Cost ...read more -
Five sets of Chord & Major Tonal earphones worth up to £200 must be won!!!
|Our good friends at Chord & Major are giving away five pairs of earphones. These were reviewed in issue 130 of HiFi+ by Alan Sircom who wrote “Chord & Major is a new name in ...read more -
Custom In-Ear Monitors: A Snugs fit?
|One of audio’s biggest tipping points is happening between your ears. The latest big thing in personal audio is very personal, with custom-tailored moulds designed for your own ears to make a perfect fit for ...read more -
WIN! Three Flare Audio R2 Pro with Snugs custom tips worth £559 must be won!!!
|We have teamed up with our good friends at Snugs to bring you an exciting competition. Three prizes of Flare Audio R2 Pro in-ear monitors with custommade ear tips worth £559 are up for grabs. ...read more -
The L-Word
|The high-end audio world can be an odd place. It makes products that should be unashamedly in the luxury market, yet seems afraid of ‘the L-word’. While people who actually buy audio today seem perfectly ...read more -
High Resolution Technologies dSp and i-dSp headphone digital processors
|High Resolution Technologies is no stranger to making high-performance, low cost USB audio devices, but these typically connect a computer to a traditional hi-fi system. That world is changing: AudioQuest’s popular DragonFly points to digital ...read more -
Focal Sphear earphones
|The name is a play on words, and torture on a spell-checker. Focal’s Sphear earphones are ‘SPHerical’ in shape, they follow Focal’s ‘SPirit of Sound’ concept, you ‘HEAR’ good sounds through them, and they go ...read more -
Exposing the ‘Good for Classical’ myth
|We all do it. We tend to pigeonhole systems (especially transducers like headphones and loudspeakers) as having specific characteristics that ally themselves to a particular genre. We often hear of loudspeakers being ‘good for rock’ ...read more -
Questyle and The Source A/V Bridge the Audible Gap
|Bruce Ball, VP of Questyle Audio and Jason Lord, Founder and Co-Owner of The Source A/V (in Torrance, Los Angeles, California) put on a terrific personal audio event last Saturday. The day exemplified the sort ...read more -
First Look: Chord Mojo portable DAC/headphone amp
|In late 2012, Chord Electronics Managing Director John Franks and the company’s digital designer Rob Watts were having an argument. In front of them lay the advanced prototype of what would be the Hugo. “We ...read more -
Noble Audio 4S Custom Fit In-Ear Monitors
|When we were children I suspect many of us received, at one point or another, stern admonitions from our parents against putting foreign objects (pencils, bits of modelling clay, green beans, or the like) in ...read more -
29 Discoveries from CanJam at RMAF 2015
|Head-Fi and its merry band of CanJammers continue to play an ever-growing role in the activities at RMAF. Now more than ever, the CanJam segment of RMAF decisively demonstrates why high-performance headphones, earphones, and custom-fit ...read more -
Celsus Sound Companion One DAC/headphone amp
|While home audio systems have been steadily improving in performance for many decades, you only have to go back a few years to find a time when portable audio was a cruel joke that no ...read more