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…
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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…
Halide Design Cable DACs: Devilsound and DAC HD
Last year Halide Design updated their cable DAC line up with the DAC HD, and I decided to ask them for a sample, not…
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, like a…
Sennheiser HD700 Unboxing
First of all, thanks to Rosmadi Mahmood at Sennheiser for giving us the privilege of being among the first to have a look at…
Audio Technica A1000X and W1000X
Audio Technica has two different line ups for their high end closed-back headphones. The W-series seems to be the more popular one, but we…
Black Holes and Revelations: KingRex UD384 DAC and UPower PSU
The new KingRex UD384 DAC delivers music with an absolutely black background I have yet to hear from other DACs. From the first moment I…
The Amp That Makes Me Feel So Powerful: Triad Audio L3
The successor to the Lisa 3 “portable” amplifier is here, and they decided to call it the L3. For some reason, Triad Audio has…
Rein Audio X-DAC: Pure German Audio
Normally we never talk much about the company making the items we review but Rein Audio is a company you probably never ever heard…
The Beyerdynamic T70: More Tesla Goodness
According to what’s being said on the world wide web, the T70 is Beyerdynamic’s replacement of the closed DT770 with Tesla technology ( fully…
The New Grado Sound: Grado PS500
Two years ago Grado released a special edition HF2 headphone that met a very warm reception from the headphone community. With the HF2, Grado…
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…
Improved: Audez’e LCD-2 Revision 2
The awesome just got an upgrade. And it’s so obvious that I’m going to make this article short and sweet at just 463 words….
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…
Meier Audio Concerto and Stagedac
The Meier Stagedac DAC and the Concerto amplifier are two of the latest stand alone desktop amplifier and DAC box from Meier Audio. Let’s…