AKG’s New Reference: The K550
To be honest I was never a big fan of AKG headphones. The K240 “Sextett”, the K340 Hybrid Electrostatic, to the legendary K1000. Before…
Win A Copy of Fidelia, Fidelia Advanced, and the FHX Headphone Processor.
We’re giving four lucky people the chance to win a copy of Fidelia, including Fidelia Advanced and the new FHX Headphone Processor. To enter,…
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…
VModa M-80 Review by Edd Noble
Say hello to Edd, a video game 3D artist who happens to maintain a headphone review blog called Noble Hi-Fi (http://noblehifi.blogspot.co.uk/). I know…
Sennheiser RS180 & RS220: The Wireless Adventure
It took a while for us to get review samples of the latest Sennheiser wireless headphones but the RS180 and the new RS220 (which…
Headfonia Tips: Burn-In Your Headphones
Headphone burn-in? Yes, burn-in your headphones, but no longer than 24 hours. From experience all the brand new headphones I’ve tested from zero hour…
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…
The Sequel: ALO Audio The National
Back in fall of 2011, ALO released the hybrid tube Continental amplifier. It was a new take at the concept of a vacuum tube…
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…
NwAvGuy’s Objective 2 by JDSLabs and Epiphany Acoustics
“The Objective 2 is an open source amplifier designed with emphasis on benchmark performance and low cost”, that’s how the O2 is described by…
The Custom IEM Story
During the last few months I have been thinking of doing a comparative Custom IEM review as more people seem to be investing in…
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…