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CanJam SoCal 2016 Report, Part 4
|Below, please find Part 4 of our four-part SoCal CanJam 2016 report highlighting—in alphabetical order—a set of manufacturers ranging from Questyle to WyWires. Enjoy. Questyle Questyle Audio Engineering’s CanJam SoCal 2016 demonstrations were, to a ...read more -
RHA Audio S500i universal-fit earphones
|As high-end audio enthusiasts, the components we enjoy tend to be, by normal mortals’ standards, crazily expensive. There are many people who love music (passionately so), but are not made of cubic money, and therefore ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2016 Report, Part 3
|Below, please find Part 3 of our four-part SoCal CanJam 2016 report highlighting—in alphabetical order—a set of manufacturers ranging from JDS Labs to Puro Sound Lab. Enjoy. JDS Labs JDS Labs showed its Element headphone ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2016 Report, Part 2
|Below, please find Part 2 of our four-part SoCal CanJam 2016 report highlighting—in alphabetical order—a set of exhibitors ranging from Cavalli Audio to HiFiMAN. Enjoy. Cavalli Audio Austin, TX-based Cavalli Audio wowed show attendees and ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2016 Report, Part 1
|This past weekend I had the privilege of attending one of the headphone world’s most important events: CanJam SoCal 2016, for which Hi-Fi+ proudly served as a media sponsor. CanJam SoCal was held on March ...read more -
Chord Electronics Mojo portable DAC/headphone amp
|While attending the first ever CanJam London event last fall at London’s Hotel Russell, I chanced to meet up with Chord Electronics Managing Director John Franks and with the firm’s consulting engineer and resident digital ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Products of the Year: Headphone amplifiers and DACs
|Desktop Headphone Amp/DAC of the Year Joint winner: Moon by Simaudio 430HAD headphone amp/DAC/preamp As the high-end headphone movement has gathered momentum, many traditional electronics manufacturers have tried to ‘jump on the bandwagon’ to offer ...read more -
CanJam SoCal 2016, North America's largest headphone & personal audio expo, is coming up this weekend!
|CanJam SoCal is less than 2 weeks away! Hot on the heels of its incredibly successful CanJam Singapore expo, CanJam Global returns home with CanJam SoCal 2016, North America's largest headphone and personal audio expo. ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Products of the Year: Headphones, Earphones, and CIEMS
|Value-priced Headphone of the Year HiFiMAN HE 400S planar magnetic headphone HiFiMAN has been on quite a roll for the past several years, creating an ever-expanding family of high-performance planar magnetic headphones. First came the ...read more -
First Listen: Ultimate Ears UE Pro Reference Remastered CIEMS
|If you spend much time in the company of serious high-performance earphone and CIEM enthusiasts you will inevitably encounter the famous Irvine, CA-based firm Ultimate Ears. During its formative years Ultimate Ears was a standalone ...read more -
Headroom Show 2016
|Now in its second year, the Headroom show ran at the end of January at the Metropolis Studios in Chiswick, West London. With almost every exhibitor at last year’s show turning up again for this ...read more -
Pryma 01 headphones
|I’m not an audio writer; I’m an audio widow. I’m married to the editor and we live in a house seemingly made out of cardboard boxes. Usually, I’m the silent partner in all this audio ...read more -
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