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Highlights from CanJam London 2016 (part two)
|Welcome to the concluding part of our round up of the highs and even highers of CanJam London 2016. During a balmy weekend in the middle of August, CanJam arrived with a view of Big ...read more -
Highlights from CanJam London 2016 (part one)
|This past weekend (August 13-14, 2016) Hi-Fi+ Publisher Chris Martens and Hi-Fi+ Editor Alan Sircom attended CanJam London 2016, which is was held in the Park Plaza Hotel in central London and was without a ...read more -
CanJam comes to London on August 13-14
|CanJam London is only a few weeks away! Technological advances continue to revolutionize the headphone audio industry, and on August 13-14, CanJam Global returns to London to bring you the latest and greatest in headphones ...read more -
Cardas Audio A8 earphones
|This is Cardas’s second run at making an earphone (or as Cardas puts it with some justification, an ‘ear speaker’): the first being the ‘mostly excellent’ EM5813. The A8 is a very different prospect, however. ...read more -
Headphones, etc. - A Baker's Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|At the Munich High End show one of my assignment(s) involved new headphones and headphone-related products. Compared to years past (and to some shows I have attended in the US and the UK), there were ...read more -
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 -
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 -
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