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Crowdfunding - not just for Geeks?
|The world of traditional audio is sometimes not exactly at the cutting edge of modern life. It’s kind of understandable – a lot of it is entirely Boomer on Boomer action and, while we might ...read more -
Exclusive - Meridian Prime headphone amplifier/DAC/preamplifier
|Meridian Audio has been spreading its wings recently (with the move into in-car with Jaguar Land Rover, and the recent Explorer and Director USB powered units), but no-one really expected the Prime. This is Meridian ...read more -
First Look: CEntrance HiFi-M8 balanced-output portable headphone amp/DAC
|This blog is to give you some first impressions of a very significant new product that will be coming up for a full review in Hi-Fi+ within the next several issues. The product is the ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 2
|What follows is a mostly pictorial survey of new headphone, earphone, and related products seen and heard at RMAF—some of which will become review subjects in Hi-Fi+ and/or our US-based sister publication The Absolute Sound ...read more -
Show Report: CanJam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013 - Part 1
|Over roughly the past decade an alternate high-end audio universe has been emerging—a universe centered on very high-performance headphones, earphones, portable and desktop headphone amplifiers, and amp/DACS. In short, it is a world that might ...read more -
Apex Hi-Fi Announces New Teton Preamplifier/Headphone Amplifier
|The Apex Teton The Apex Teton is a single-ended output-transformer-less (OTL) vacuum tube preamplifier and headphone amp. Its roots lie in the Wheatfield Audio HA-2 from nearly 15 years ago. While similar, it is far ...read more -
First Listen: Cavalli Audio Liquid Gold Fully-Balanced Headphone Amplifier
|Cavalli Audio will soon begin the first production run for a new, ultra-high-end solid-state, fully balanced headphone amplifier called the Liquid Gold (there may be an allusion to Harry Potter’s molten gold-coloured Felix Felicis potion ...read more -
V-MODA Vamp Verza Portable Headphone Amp/DAC
|V-MODA is a US-based company whose products, by design, look like they might have come from Italy. That’s not just my opinion, by the way, but rather something the V-MODA folks proudly proclaim with a ...read more -
Apex Hi-Fi Glacier Portable Headphone Amp/DAC
|You can’t judge books by their covers or audio components by their cosmetics, but some products look so cool that they all but demand an audition and in my eyes one such component is the ...read more -
Cavalli Audio Liquid Glass Hybrid Valve/Solid-State Headphone Amplifier/Preamplifier
|Cavalli Audio is a USA-based manufacturer of world-class headphone amplifiers. They are ‘bespoke’ products, since the amps typically allow at least some degree of customization to meet buyers’ requirements. But the underlying qualities that typify ...read more -
Interview: Val Kolton of V-MODA
|There’s a major misunderstanding in the world of good headphones. Many think that good-looking headphones all sound bad and the genre began when Dre met the Head Monster. In fact, although there have been fashionable ...read more -
Audeze Partners with Bakoon and Klutz to Introduce New Headphone/Amp/Stand Package at T.H.E. Show 2013
|(From a joint Audeze, Bakoon, and Klutz Design press release) FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. - June 30, 2013 - Audeze, the premier manufacturer of high-end headphones and accessories, travels to Newport Beach, Calif. this weekend to ...read more -
Antelope Audio Unveils Zodiac Platinum - a 768 kHz DSD DAC
|(From an Antelope Audio press release) Santa Monica, CA, May 30, 2013 – Leading digital audio manufacturer Antelope Audio will introduce the newest member of its stellar Integrity line of D/A converters – Zodiac Platinum ...read more -
Munich 2013 - Earphones & Headphones, Part 2 (Hi-Fi+)
|This is Part 2 of the two-part Hi-Fi+ report on Earphones, Headphones and related products seen at Munich High End 2013. For the sake of simplicity, we present products in alphabetical order, organized by the ...read more -
Munich 2013 - Earphones & Headphones, Part 1 (Hi-Fi+)
|At Munich High-End 2013, as across much of the high-end audio universe, earphones, headphones, and personal audio components claimed an increasingly large share of attention. In Europe, it would seem, high quality earphones and headphones ...read more