Sennheiser’s New HD558 and HD598
Sennheiser just released the new HD558 and HD598 headphones, which are successors to the mid-level HD555 and HD595 headphones.The HD558 now wears a slick, all black look, while the HD598 took an extreme direction with tan color, wood-look trims, and [...more]
Stax Omega2 Mk2 Review
First of all I would like to thank Budi for making this review possible.As the flagship STAX headphone, the Omega2 is the most perfect headphone I've ever listened to. All of us can start from different headphone preferences, and ultimately [...more]
Closed Cans Shootout: M-50, ESW-9, T50P, HD25-1, Beats Studio, SRH-840, SRH-750DJ, K181DJ, and DJ1Pro.
Here it is, the long awaited closed headphones shootout. Big thanks to Sem, Peter, and Bram for the loaners that make this comparison possible. There are nine headphones in total as seen in the picture below:In the group picture, the [...more]
HD800 and JH16
After having finished the JH Audio comparison, this is the next question that I want to see answered. A lot of people has been asking about it too, if the JH16 is so good, how does it perform next to [...more]
German Flagship Battle: The HD800 and the T1
As of 2010, these are the two flagship models being offered by the two of the biggest headphone company in the world, Sennheiser, and Beyerdynamic. Both offers the latest technology in their drivers. Ring shaped driver in the Sennheiser HD800, [...more]
First Impression: Beyerdynamic’s T1
Beyerdynamic T1, the flagship model from Beyerdynamic is claimed to be the first headphone with more than 1 Tesla magnet strength. Strong magnet in dynamic design theoretically will improve the efficiency, speed, and control of the driver coil, which [...more]
Hifiman HE5 & HE5LE
I've had the Hifiman HE5LE for about two weeks now, and so I think it would be appropriate to share what I think of its sound after over 300 hours of burn in.I only noticed that the burn in smooth [...more]
Hifiman HE5LE First Impression
From the first moment that I put on the HE5LE, I immediately like this version better than the original HE5! The changes is significant enough that even when I didn't have the HE5 with me, I was able to tell [...more]
Audio Technica AD700 Review
The Audio Technica AD700 is a very popular headphone that is widely considered to be among the best-sounding headphones under $100. I have listened to the AD700 several times in noisy meet situations and left away liking it. Now that [...more]
SR-404LE, SR-404 Signature, and SR-Lambda Pro
When I first started learning about Stax headphones, I was always confused on how people would talk of the different headphone models like the SR-202, SR-303, and SR-404 as "lambdas", while at the same time you have the SR-Lambda and [...more]
SR-Lambda vs SR-34 Shootout
We knew that the SR-34 electret didn't stand a chance against any of the Lambdas, which is a pure electrostatic design. But we couldn't care less. Comparisons are always fun, and even if the electret SR-34 is inferior, we wanted [...more]
Stax SR-34 Short Review
I'm very excited about this purchase, more than anything that I've come across for a while. It is not the best headphone ever, and it's quite low in the Stax line up, but boy, there is something about the SR-34 [...more]
AKG K500, K501
These two cans may be one of the most pleasant, natural sounding headphone AKG has ever produced. Frankly, I haven't heard the K601, but compared to the K701, K401, K240, K271, and even the K340, the K500 & K501 remains [...more]
Three Way HFI-780 Shootout
Cable discussions are always a subject of interest to headphone enthusiasts. A while ago we did an aftermarket cable shootout for Sennheiser cables, and we find that cables tend to carry their own sound signature, and that their property can [...more]
Alessandro MS1i Review
For a long time, people have been recommending the Alessandro MS1 as a more neutral-sounding alternative to the Grado the SR60/80/125. Priced at the magic number of $100, it is regarded by many as one of the best sounding $100 [...more]
