The DAC3 HGC by Benchmark Media
After having reviewed the breathtaking professional DAC/amp surprise hit RME ADI-2 Pro and the also spectacular Lake People Reference Series, it is time to see how an actual hifi consumer device compares to ref...
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The A6 By 64 Audio
For many years and through a fair few product branding changes the number 6 in the 64 Audio lineup always seemed to represent a type of reference sound for the company and fans alike. Not super flat analytical ...
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The EMAC 535SE Amplifier by The Audio Guild
The EMAC 535SE is the most recent offering from The Audio Guild, a California-based company run by Steve Eddy and Liam Strain, who are two of the nicest guys I've ever spoken to. They were dead set on fashionin...
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The Ether C Flow By MrSpeakers
Change can sometimes be evolutionary and yet dramatic at the same time. However, when MrSpeakers suggested I upgrade my "Writer's choice of 2015" Ether C headphone to the new $1799 Flow edition citing a major (...
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The Edition X V2 By Hifiman
Much like the HE1000, Hifiman has seen fit to bring out a revised Edition X in the form of the Edition X V2 and in doing so saw to it that my lead up to Xmas 2016 was filled with instant regret at not jumping o...
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The K872 By AKG
I knew it was only a matter of time before AKG released the closed back version of the K812 in the form of the new $1499 K872. It has a form factor begging to be bricked up and converted into a closed format. I...
The HE1000 V2 By Hifiman
I was pretty settled on the order of things in my headphone universe with regard to the HE1000 being the top dog so the announcement of the similarly priced HE1000 V2 a few months ago as a direct replacement fo...
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THE ADI-2 Pro By RME
When I first heard about the ADI-2 Pro some months ago, I was indeed very interested. I read some more news on professional audio sites but some of the jargon I did not understand. I'm sorry, I have to admit, I...
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The Vega By Campfire Audio
Campfire Audio must be one of the hardest working teams in the audio business right now with not just one, but three new IEM releases this month on top of the previous 5 IEMs they put out on the market in the l...
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The Maestro V2 By Unique Melody
This review of the Maestro V2 has been a long one in the making and thanks to Andrew and the team at MusicTeck for walking with me every step of this long journey. Unique Melody was, of course, the first ever c...
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The EAMT-2c By Obravo Audio
I often laud earphone and headphone makers for event driven product launches. The likes of ALO is a prime example, also Audeze in many respects. Companies who can put out a product with fireworks and capture yo...
InEar’s ProPhile-8 – First Impressions
CanJam Europe 2016 was host to InEar's world premiere of the new ProPhile-8 flagship earphone. The product was announced a few days earlier but prototypes were handed around for quite some time. As the first su...
The Andromeda By Campfire Audio
During the original launch of the first three IEMs, the Jupiter was pitched by Campfire Audio as their highest resolving of the range at that time. I am not completely sure if they came out and said this was th...
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The Frosty Sheep IEM Cable By Wagnus
This Wanus Frosty Sheep entry is part three of a four-part series of high-end cables. For the general introduction about cable performance and matching, please see the first review of the series (Rhapsodio Gold...
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The LCM-BD4.2 CIEM By Lear
I must confess I am a bit of a latecomer to the Lear proposition having only met Tatco Ma and reviewed his gear starting the summer of 2015. However, I must say I have been impressed by their attempt to always ...
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The Miracle V2 By Unique Melody
My first custom in 2011 was the Merlin from Unique Melody and it arrived around the same time I was testing my Audeze LCD-2. My initial remarks are at the time that it reminded me of an LCD-2 and it was the fir...
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The EM32 By Earsonics
I wrote my first review ever for the EarSonics Velvet. Fueled by enthusiasm, and undeterred by the lack of any knowledge or background whatsoever in analytical listening, I reported my experience with the Velve...
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The Ether C by MrSpeakers
Those of you who read our top gear for 2015 review list in December 2015 would probably have noticed me waxing lyrical about headphone that no official review from us had come out at the time yet still received...
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The Apollo CIEM By Empire Ears
EarWerkz recently made a fresh restart as Empire Ears. Fueled by ambition, Empire Ears proudly released a mission statement to raise the bar in quality and customer service – both for themselves and the industr...
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The Zeus by Empire Ears
A few years back EarWerkz was a blossoming company, making name with models as the Supra and Legend R/Omega. But its founder Jack Vang soon hit a glass wall, as his ambition reached beyond the constraints of hi...