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JH Audio Lola hybrid custom-fit in-ear monitor
|JH Audio is led by its founder and chief technologist Jerry Harvey, and the firm specialises in one thing: namely, creating some of the world’s finest custom-fit in-ear monitors and universal-fit earphones. Harvey began his ...read more -
Sennheiser Momentum In-Ear Wireless earphones
|There has been a profound change in the portable audio market, thanks to Apple abandoning the headphone jack in the iPhone 7. The result is – understandably – sales of wired headphones have fallen away. ...read more -
Pathos InPol Ear headphone amplifier
|Pathos and its innovative InPol amplifier circuit has been around for some time – in fact, the Inseguitore Pompa Lineare circuit was patented by Pathos back when the company was founded in 1994 – but ...read more -
Onkyo DP-S1 digital audio player
|The Onkyo DP-S1 is the second of two collaborative digital audio players between the brand and its stablemate Pioneer. The first pairing – the Onkyo DP-X1 and Pioneer XDP-100R – were larger, Android-based players originally ...read more -
Stax SRS-3100 electrostatic 'earspeaker' system
|Stax holds a special place in the music lover’s heart. It’s the high-performance electrostatic headphone that even those who don’t like headphones enjoy. But, goes the logic, only a select few can get to enjoy ...read more -
iFi Audio Micro iDSD Black Label portable headphone amp, preamp, and DAC
|iFi Audio is a spin-off from the well-respected British high-end audio company Abbingdon Music Research (or AMR for short). Leveraging design know-how drawn from AMR, the iFi team has set as its mission the creation ...read more -
Weiss Engineering DAC501 digital converter and renderer
|In a way, this is not a review of one Weiss device, but two. You see, the Weiss Audio DAC50x platform is made up of two almost identical products; this one, the half-sized DAC501 streaming ...read more -
Fostex TH610 headphones and HPA4BL DAC/Headphone amplifier
|Fostex is a name which conjures up professional audio, and, in my particular audio experience, Reel-to-Reel machines! In fact, Fostex was formed as an offshoot of the Foster Electric company in 1973, the parent company ...read more -
HiFiMAN Shangri-La electrostatic headphone system
|I first met Fang Bian (now Dr Fang Bian), the founder and President of HiFiMAN, a number of years ago and our interactions at the time centred on the firm’s early-generation HE-5LE planar magnetic headphones. ...read more -
Roksan Blak CD player
|Many people have written off CD today. However, reports of the death of the polycarbonate disc are greatly exaggerated. True, it’s getting ever harder to find players, especially new players, and increasingly the audiophile zeitgeist ...read more -
PMC twenty5.26 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Formula One is, on the one hand, a magnificent waste of money and resources, but on the other, it’s a hot-bed of technological advances, which trickle down into the vehicles that we mere mortals drive. ...read more -
conrad-johnson CAV-45 integrated amplifier
|A couple of issues ago, we looked at the latest in the Classic line from conrad-johnson’s power amplifier range. At that time, we focused on the SE versions of the Classic Sixty-Two and Classic One-Twenty. ...read more -
Spendor D9 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Spendor may be one of the oldest (and most respected) names in the UK audio industry, but since its acquisition by Philip Swift (once of Audiolab) its products have been anything but old-fashioned. Admittedly, the ...read more -
TechDAS Air Force III turntable and SAT tonearm
|The very top end of turntsablism is dominated by a few great names, but perhaps the biggest one at this time is the Japanese brand TechDAS. Coming from good high-end stock (chief designer and CEO ...read more -
AudioQuest NightOwl headphones
|AudioQuest used to be best known for a vast range of high-performance audio cables. It still makes those cables – covering every base from ‘cheap as chips’ to ‘I’ll collect them in my Friday helicopter’ ...read more