Around 4 years in the making, the iFi Pro iDSD is the third component in their Pro line series after the Pro iCan and Pro iESL. The Pro iDSD features a plethora of inputs, not only including the usual S/PDIF and USB, but also with both wired and wireless networking […]
Ultimate Ears’ Reference Monitor (UERM) became such a standard amongst some members on Head-Fi that at one point a member asked in one of the popular “diary” threads a question along the lines of “So, have you heard any good IEMs lately, other than the UERMs?” It quickly became my […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazABKh9JIw After the highly successful release of the Ether headphone series, it remained to be seen if Dan Clark would come out with less expensive models. The release of the Aeon (now called the Aeon Flow, as it uses the same technology as the Ether Flow) showed that he could […]
Astell&Kern has announced the A&futura SE100 DAP at the Munich High End show. Featuring an ES9038 Pro 8-channel DAC, Octa-core CPU , 5-inch display with HD screen resolution and an improved user interface , the SE100 has a similar internal design to the SP1000.
INTRODUCTION FiiO first started their line-up over 10 years ago now, and it was with some very entry level amps and DAC/amps. My very first FiiO device was the E7, and paired with an iPod Touch, I thought I had a pretty decent rig. How times change in a pretty […]
A couple of years ago I got a message from Bluewave asking if I’d like to try their Bluetooth receiver and headphone amp, and I agreed. It took them a couple of years, but now they have a final product, the Bluewave Get. While not the first device of its […]
As you get more into high-end in-ear monitors (IEMs) it is not unusual to encounter discussion online that you need amps or DAPs that have a low, or near zero output impedance, or people talking about how much noise they hear hiss or noise with certain IEMs. The iFi iEMatch (2.5mm […]
INTRODUCTION Blue-tooth has changed a lot since it’s been introduced. Originally audiophile purists would turn their noses up at the overall quality (with good reason), and the early Blue-tooth standards and codecs were pretty much hit and miss. But over the last 2 or 3 years, progress has been rapid, […]
Campfire Audio has now dropped the price of the Vega IEMs to only $1099. Here’s your chance to get these great IEMs at a lower price and support this site as well. Click here to buy them.
iFi have carved a name for themselves with affordable and powerful DACs and headphones amps, as well as noise-reducing USB and digital accessories. The new xDSD has been my first introduction into their digital guru, Thorsten Loesch. Opening up the box, I was surprised at just how small the xDSD […]
https://youtu.be/vDL330SE_Ec Ken Ball has a long history with personal audio. Starting out by soldering his own headphone cables and modifying headphones well over a decade ago, then manufacturing amps and DACs, and now producing IEMs and headphones, his progression has been somewhat backwards from normal. Now with the Cascade going […]
An unexpected headphone has made its appearance on Monoprice. The Monolith Liquid Platinum Headphone Amplifier is listed as a balanced version of the Liquid Crimson amp which was sold before the company closed. Pictures show a rendering of an amp with balanced and single-ended inputs and outputs and powered through […]