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…
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JustAudio µHA-120: Size Doesn’t Equal Quality! – update with AHA-120
A few months ago we reviewed JustAudio’s AHA-120 amplifier and we found it was a great amp. Now it’s time to review its little…
Violectric V100: German Pro-Audio Quality by LakePeople
The Violectric V100 is an A/B class amp with excellent German build quality. It’s sturdy, basic and has a very detailed finish. You can…
The Next Step: Burson HA-160DS
Perhaps it’s the fact that I have no need of a pre-amp. Perhaps it’s the smaller footprint. Perhaps it’s the price tag — almost…
Hifiman Express: HM-101
Suddenly everybody seems to be very into entry level USB DACs. After Fiio and Ibasso, next comes another USB DAC from yet another Chinese…
No Music: Audio Gd NFB-12
I have mixed feelings about this entry level DAC/Amp box from Audio-Gd. In contrast to the Ref 7.1 flagship model which I absolutely love,…
Fiio E7, Meet Your Rival: The Ibasso D-Zero
It’s pretty amazing how easy it is to get quality gear these days. Just recently I was raving about the $80 Fiio E10 DAC/Amp,…
Little Apex: The Butte
Having associated the Apex brand with high end amplifiers priced in the thousands of dollars region, most people me included are probably not going…
The Latest Must Have: The Fiio E10 USB DAC/Amp -updated-
EDIT 25/09/2014: The New E10K has replaced the E10 from this review: Go here: https://www.headfonia.com/fiio-e10k-classic-reborn/ ———————- The E10 was very easy to like from…
The Sweet Sound of Tube: The ALO Continental Amplifier
I’ve spent a few weeks now with the Continental, and I can tell you outright that it is perhaps the best sounding portable amplifier…
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…
Korean Pocket Rocket: The Audinst Amp-Hp
Most of the portable headphone amplifiers available on the market fall either to the sub $100 or the over $300 range, but with the…
Entry Level Tube Hybrid: Bada PH-12
This review started as one of the members of the local forum visited me, asking me to take a listen to his Bada headphone…
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…
Entry Level 32-bit DAC: Fostex HP-A3
I’ve had the Fostex HP-A3 DAC/Amp box for quite a while now but haven’t had the chance to write about it. I spent some…