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Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Personal Audio Electronics
|Desktop Headphone System of the Year Questyle ‘Golden Reference’ Stack Like dCS’s powerful Vivaldi digital playback system, the Questyle stack relies on four separate boxes to deliver what might just be the ultimate in headphone ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Earphones and Custom-fit In-ear Monitors
|Value-Priced Earphone of the Year 1More E1001 Triple-Driver The value end of the earphone market is hotly contested, but 1More’s flagship E1001 Triple-Driver has more than made a space for itself. The design employs a ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Headphones
|Value-Priced Headphone of the Year Meze 99 Classics The first product out of Antonio Meze’s Romanian headphone lab, the Model 99 Classics are a closed-back design featuring a 40mm full-range Mylar transducer with a Neodymium ...read more -
Headroom Show 2017
|Metropolis Studios in West London is one of the last great recording studios in the British capital, and in the early months of the year it is home for a weekend to the Headroom Show, ...read more -
AKG Acoustics N90Q headphones
|Some reviews have a long gestation period, but this one takes gold. I first encountered the AKG N90Q back in June 2015, and received my review sample toward the end of the year. Almost immediately, ...read more -
iFi Audio Pro iCAN balanced, hybrid valve/solid state headphone amp/preamp
|My very first exposure to the iFi Audio brand, which is a spin-off of the British high-end audio electronics manufacturer Abbingdon Music Research (AMR), came at an audio show a number of years ago. I ...read more -
Schiit Audio Jotunheim headphone amp/preamp
|For many years Schiit Audio staunchly resisted building combination headphone amp/DACs, their thinking being that DAC technology typically evolves much faster than amplifier technology, meaning that amp/DACs are potentially in danger of growing obsolete more ...read more -
Focal Utopia headphones
|The French loudspeaker specialist Focal made its first entry into the headphone market space some years ago with its original Spirit headphone—a design that was later expanded upon to become an entire range of Spirit ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 3
|This is Part 3 of Hi-Fi+’s three-part photo-essay covering the recent CanJam NYC event. Noble At CanJam London 2016, Noble Audio introduced its Katana universal-fit earphones and CIEMs to favourable critical response. In fact, Hi-Fi+ ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 2
|This is Part 2 of Hi-Fi+’s three-part photo-essay covering the recent CanJam NYC event. Dekoni Dekoni is a firm I met for the first time at CanJam NYC and whose mission is to offer extremely ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits CanJam NYC – Part 1
|On the weekend of 4-5 February 2017, Hi-Fi+ was pleased to attend the first ever CanJam event held in New York City, and what an event it proved to be. Held in the Marriott Marquis ...read more -
MrSpeakers ETHER Flow open-backed planar magnetic headphones
|In 2015 the California-based firm MrSpeakers launched two world-class planar magnetic headphones: the open-back ETHER and the closed-back ETHER C (reviewed in Hi-Fi+ issue 135). Laymen and veteran headphone enthusiasts alike reacted favourably to both ...read more -
AURALiC ALTAIR wireless streaming DAC
|Hi-Fi+ has covered many AURALiC products in the past, but two enduring favourites would be the VEGA digital audio processor (or DAC/preamp) reviewed in Issue 106 and the ARIES wireless streaming bridge reviewed in Issue ...read more -
Chord Electronics DAVE DAC/headphone amp
|In this review, I’m going to take the unusual step of starting with the negatives first: Dear Chord Electronics, you called it DAVE? Really? Is there some kind of kid’s TV thing going on here ...read more -
Ayre Codex DAC/Headphone Amplifier
|The Ponoplayer – Neil Young’s portable high-res digital audio Toblerone – may still be officially unavailable outside of North America, but everyone worldwide can reap the benefits of elements of the design in the shape ...read more