Blogs
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First Listen: Oppo PM-1 planar magnetic headphones
|Back before the turn of the year, I received a message from Jason Liao, Oppo Digital’s Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Product Development, asking if I would like to sample a very early ...read more -
First Listen: Magnepan 3.7i loudspeaker
|Introduction: Over the past several years Magnepan made waves by re-vamping its loudspeaker product line from stem to stern, leading to the release of (in ascending order of price and performance) the New MMG, Super ...read more -
Sonus faber Ex3ma
|Sonus faber celebrated its 30th anniversary with style. The Italian company gathered together its biggest, brightest and best distributors and dealers (plus a handful of the world’s press) for a lavish event in and around ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Adds Hundreds of Articles from AVguide.com, Playback, and The Perfect Vision
|From the latter half of 2013 to the present, the www.hifiplus.com content archives have slowly but surely been filled with hundreds of articles originally published on AVguide.com and in Playback and The Perfect Vision magazines. ...read more -
Neil Young’s Singing Toblerone
|You’ve got to love Neil Young. He has matured nicely into the music business’ finest curmudgeon, and he has become one of the most visible and outspoken champions of good sound quality at a time ...read more -
First Look: HiFiMAN HM-901 high-resolution digital music player/DAC
|What follows is a “First Look” blog about a very special high-performance digital audio player that has, if truth be told, gone through one of the longest gestation periods in personal audio history. The product ...read more -
The Chameleon test
|The absolute sound – the ethos, rather than our stable-mate – can be paired down to attempting to recreate the sound of live, unamplified music in a natural acoustic environment. This remains a valued goal ...read more -
First Look: iFi iDSD nano DAC/headphone amp & iCAN nano headphone amp
|Early this year I wrote a blog about iFi Audio’s iCAN nano headphone amplifier (click here to read), but mentioned at the time that my findings were based on a pilot production sample and not ...read more -
The Great Leap Forward
|I’ve recently been through several loudspeakers in the review process recently. And two in particular highlight a marked step-change in the way audio systems have sounded, and now sound. The two loudspeakers are the excellent ...read more -
A fine Bromance?
|To audiophile manufacturers touring the high-end show circuit, CES marks the end of the year, rather than the beginning. It also is the start of a brief lull in event activity that kicks off again ...read more -
First Listen: Chord Electronics Hugo portable high res DAC/headphone amp
|A Hi-Fi+ review project I’m working on at the moment involves the Chord Electronics Hugo portable high res DAC/headphone amp, which is priced at $2,395 in the US or £1,200 in the UK. In practice ...read more -
CES 2014: Analogue
|Given all the fuss about the ever-increasing interest in all things vinyl, you might have expected CES to be packed full of turntables. This wasn’t quite the case. Where two or three years ago, manufacturers ...read more -
Head-Fi meet in Austin, TX
|It occurs to me that many readers familiar with the traditional world of speaker-centric high-end audio systems may be unaware that there is a rapidly evolving, parallel high-end audio universe that revolves around high-end headphones, ...read more -
CES 2014: A personal viewpoint
|There’s a famous inscription on the James Farley Post Office that fits, It reads, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” ...read more -
CES 2014: Electronics (Amplifiers)
|OK, there is an elephant in the room when it comes to audio amplification this year – Naim Audio. By upping the ante by an order of magnitude, to make its Statement NAC S1 preamp ...read more