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Interview: Jerry Harvey, JH Audio
|Hi-Fi+: How did you become interested in earphone and CIEM design in the first place? What attracted you to this product category? JH: When I started designing IEMs in 1995 the category was brand new ...read more -
Interview: Karl Cartwright, Westone
|Hi-Fi+: How did you become interested in earphone and CIEM design in the first place? What attracted you to this product category? KC: I love music! Whether listening to it or playing it, music has ...read more -
First Listen: RHA Audio T20 earphones
|If you’ve followed Hi-Fi+ coverage of the Scottish earphone maker RHA Audio, then you already know that we hold the firm’s well-made and value-priced products in very high regard. In the past, we’ve favourably reviewed ...read more -
Fifteen Cool Headphone Products from Newport Beach 2015 – Part 2
|This is Part 2 of the two-part article on cool new headphones and related products seen at T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2015. As always, I offer apologies in advance to worthy manufacturers and components not ...read more -
Fifteen Cool Headphone Products from Newport Beach 2015 – Part 1
|T.H.E. Show Newport Beach had a special pavilion called the ‘Headphonium’ reserved just for Headphone products and the fast-growing group of audiophiles who enjoy them. The Headphonium space proved to be a garden of delights ...read more -
Baker’s Dozen – Headphones & Related Electronics at the Munich High End 2015
|As regular Hi-Fi+ newsletter readers will already know, the Munich High End show was massive—so much so that it defied any possible attempt at comprehensive coverage of all the exhibitors present. Accordingly, we took a ...read more -
RHA introduces the T20 in-ear headphone featuring revolutionary DualCoil™ dynamic driver technology.
|Set to debut at the High End show in Munich, Germany, from 14th May, the T20 is the first in-ear headphone to feature RHA’s proprietary DualCoil™ driver technology, engineered to produce levels of resolution, clarity ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam SoCal 2015 – Part 3
|This is the third and final segment of the Hi-Fi+ report from CanJam SoCal 2015—a continuation from Part 1 and Part 2 published last week. oBravo oBravo’s David Teng demonstrated his firm’s hybrid dynamic-driver/AMT-driver HAMT-1 ...read more -
RHA T10i in-ear headphone wins prestigious Red Dot Award for Product Design.
|Glasgow, UK – 30th March 2015. RHA today announced its flagship T10i in-ear headphone has been selected as a winner of the prestigious “Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015”, recognising outstanding product design and innovation. ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam SoCal 2015 – Part 2
|This is Part 2 of a report on the recent Southern California CanJam event held on March 28-29, 2015 in the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa, California. Covalent Audio – Synergistic Research ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam SoCal 2015 – Part 1
|I just spent the past weekend at an absolutely delightful event: CanJam SoCal 2015. For those asking themselves what a CanJam is, allow me to explain. One of the key organisations leading today’s modern high-performance ...read more -
First Listen: Westone W60 universal-fit earphones
|By tradition the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based firm Westone has offered several ranges of both custom-fit in-ear monitors and universal-fit earphones. Westone’s product lines are sufficiently complex that at time one feels as if a ‘decoder ...read more -
Sir George Martin Signature Custom Earphone
|From the ACS press release Banbury UK – Advanced Communication Solutions (ACS) is delighted to announce its partnership with other leading British companies Meridian Audio and Asprey to create 1,000 very special sets of limited ...read more -
Headroom Show
|Over the last two days in January, West London became the nerve centre of all things headphone-related, as the new Headroom Show descended on Chiswick’s prestigious Metropolis Studios. While the two studios, two control rooms, ...read more -
Noble Audio Kaiser 10 custom-fit in-ear monitor
|For those not familiar with the terminology, ‘custom-fit in-ear monitors’ (CIEMs) are very high performance in-ear headphones whose earpieces have been custom-moulded to fit the exact contours of their owners’ ears. When properly made, CIEMs ...read more