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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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