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CanJam NYC 2018 Show Report from Ultimate Headphone Guide: Part One
|Ultimate Headphone Guide is a new bi-annual publication that represents a joint venture between The Absolute Sound magazine and its sister publication Hi-Fi+. My name is Chris Martens and I have the privilege of serving ...read more -
Audeze iSINE20 planar magnetic universal-fit earphone
|The setting: The CanJam tent at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016. “Have you heard Audeze’s new planar magnetic headphones?” blurted an excited friend and colleague from Head-Fi. “They’re in-ears, if you can believe that!” ...read more -
Massdrop x Noble X universal-fit earphones
|Many of my non-audiophile friends and neighbours who have interest in high-performance universal earphones are astonished to learn just how expensive top-tier models can really be. After all, top-of-the-range offerings from firms such as 64 ...read more -
Final E3000 earphones
|Hold the phone! Please place your mobile device on the table and back away slowly. Do not process that order in your Amazon virtual checkout cart for those cheap, crappy, generic replacement ear buds. You ...read more -
JH Audio Lola hybrid custom-fit in-ear monitor
|JH Audio is led by its founder and chief technologist Jerry Harvey, and the firm specialises in one thing: namely, creating some of the world’s finest custom-fit in-ear monitors and universal-fit earphones. Harvey began his ...read more -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
1More Quad Driver universal-fit earphones
|Not long ago Hi-Fi+ favourably reviewed two significant earphones from the Chinese firm 1MORE: the Triple-Driver and Capsule-Type Dual-Driver earphones. The common denominator between these two different designs involves the fact both are keenly priced ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 – Introduction
|Across the last weekend of Wimbledon fortnight, the heart of London buzzed to the sound of personal audio, as CanJam came to town. In the same venue as last year – the Park Plaza hotel, ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part five
|In the final part of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom feature Stereo Pravda to Westone! StereoPravda Who? Micha Kucherenko, ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part four
|In the penultimate section of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom run from Noble to Sony! Noble Audio Who? Brannan ...read more -
CanJam London 2017 show – part three
|In the third part of our definitive multi-part round-up of the best personal audio products on show at CanJam London, 2017, Chris Martens and Alan Sircom cover everything from HeadAmp to Mr Speakers! HeadAmp Who: ...read more