OS X Audio Players: Amarra, Audirvana, Pure Music, Fidelia, Decibel, and BitPerfect.
Sometime in 2011 I began thinking about the possibility of doing a review on high quality audio players for the Mac OS X operating system. Even though Windows... more
Headfonia Tips: Burn-In Your Headphones
Yes, burn-in your headphones, but no longer than 24 hours. From experience all the brand new headphones I've tested from zero hour stop changing after 4-5 hours. 1000 hours?... more
Open Back Shures: SRH1440 and SRH1840
First of all, there is no mistaking that Shure tuned their new open-back headphones for the music listening crowd. Vastly different than the closed-back SRH840 and SRH940, the... more
Headfonia Tips: Keep Your Amps At Low Gain
With all of the amps that I have reviewed, I don't think there is any exception to the rule that the amp will produce a cleaner sound at... more
The Sennheiser HD700 Journal (Mar 16, 2012)
Introduction to the Journal This article is a work in progress and as time goes I will be adding things to it. Please refer to this table of contents... more
The Minute 45 Amplifier by SAC Thailand
Minute's 45 amplifier comes from SAC Thailand, a small boutique audio manufacturer based in Thailand, famous for making world-class output transformers and transformer based volume controls. The Minute... more
Old Champ: The AKG K1000
For years I have been reading people rave about AKG flagship K1000 headphone. Although a bit late but better than never, the opportunity for me to evaluate this... more
Voltage Monster: Ray Samuels Dark Star
The way Ray describes the Dark Star on his website is pretty menacing: In SE output it can easily swing close to 80 volts P-P., but the Dark Star... more
True Beauty: WooAudio WA5 Headphone Amplifier
Guys, this is the famous, 300B-based, gigantic overkill, wallet-squashing, hell of a tube amp from WooAudio. Yep, the grand daddy of headphone amplifiers. As I'm listening to the... more
What I’ve Learned, Two Years Writing for Headfonia
A friend who's taken a short break from headphones recently called me on the phone, explaining his intentions to go back to headphones. He was interested in hearing... more
Apex Amplifiers: The Peak, The Arete, and The Volcano
The Apex, without a doubt, is the new summit in my headphone Hi-Fi journey. During the past few weeks I've been going through the Bryston BDA-1 and Audio-Gd Ref7.1... more
Cheaper, Better: The CEntrance DACport LX
Despite the superb little system-in-a-stick that the original DACport is, some people don't want simplicity as they happen to like big messy desktop amplifiers with garden hose power... more
Graham Slee Desktop Amps: Novo, Solo SRG II, Solo Ultra Linear
I think the problem with the Graham Slees is that they are just too quiet. Too quiet in the sense that there is no buzz on them. Too... more
The Flagship Audio-Gd: PCM1704 based Ref 7.1
You probably realize that I have been somewhat trying to avoid doing a review on Audio-Gd gears. The story goes like this. One or two years ago a... more
CEntrance: Dacmini and Dacport
Are we late to the game? You bet. Many have asked me to do a review on the pencil-DAC aka CEntrance DACport, perhaps the single USB DAC that makes... more
