Lieven is living in Europe and he's the leader of the gang. He's running Headfonia as a side project next to his full time day job in Digital Marketing & Consultancy. He's a big fan of tube amps and custom inear monitors and has published hundreds of product reviews over the years.
The new island Lookalikes haven’t publicly launched, but are from Korean manufacturer, HiSonus (http://www.hisonus.com). They do DSD, are made in Korea (not necessarily a good thing yet), and will go for a song.
The reports on them from other headfi members are not encouraging though. I tried twisting their UFO rotaries and was disappointed by the play in the wheel not to mention the plastic skirt underneath.
They are yet to market, so we will see. I hope a lot can change between now and then.
George Lai
Nice pics. What are those colorful ALO Island lookalikes on Page 1? We know how Mike looks like but the new kid, Nathan?
L.
There’s a pic on page 7 as well.
Anyone? 🙂
L.
Let’s keep it a secret how Nathan looks. Who knows it could be useful one day as my cover is already blown 😉
George Lai
I can be your Asian cover.
George Lai
Ah now I can see him on the head-fi.org front page report on the show!
L.
You are the only one left then!
ohm image
The new island Lookalikes haven’t publicly launched, but are from Korean manufacturer, HiSonus (http://www.hisonus.com). They do DSD, are made in Korea (not necessarily a good thing yet), and will go for a song.
The reports on them from other headfi members are not encouraging though. I tried twisting their UFO rotaries and was disappointed by the play in the wheel not to mention the plastic skirt underneath.
They are yet to market, so we will see. I hope a lot can change between now and then.
PT
oooooh what’s that jazzy looking new dap below the new hifiman dap in page 8? that dap looks like a beaut. 🙂
L.
That’s the Hifiman HM-700 and then the AK240
George Lai
The Radius on page 4 is using the Onkyo HF Player app like the AK10/A200p so it looks like it can handle FLAC and DSD.
Shilelis
Did you had chance to listen to Hifiman He-400i?
L.
Mike reported: less bassy as the HE400 but more refined. an improvement
Dave Ulrich
Hey now, that’s my material!
L.
You should have gone to Tokyo then :p
Dave Ulrich
Touche
Fabian Peter Blache IV
Mini M8 has my attention. Any details on it ?
ohm image
Same sound, but much smaller. Pretty easy to use. Has its disadvantages, but has many pluses, too.
roxanneuniversal
lol I thought the new fostex TH500RP was a stax s009 until the picture explained what it was.
Rekupax
what is the golden player with japanese UI (last page)?
and, any differences in ocharaku kuro type 2, with the longer tube?