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Audio Zenith PMx2 Review
Back in 2014 Kyle reviewed the Oppo PM-2 (https://headfonics.com/2014/11/the-pm-2-planer-headphone-by-oppo/) and concluded that the PM2 were an amazing set of headphones with only but a few flaws. Kyle was not...
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8.2
MrSpeakers AEON Review
MrSpeaker's latest creation, the $799 AEON is reviewed below on Headfonics. This is a smaller lighter planar magnetic closed-back headphone but with flagship technology. Disclaimer: The MrSpeakers AEON sent ...
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The SINE DX By Audeze
By a quirk of fate, Mike reviewed the SINE closed headphone over a year ago and seemed very happy with it. It stole the show for him, got the end of the year award and rated a solid 9.0. You can't say fairer t...
8.6
The LCD-4 By Audeze
Ever since the conception of the LCD-1 in 2009, Audeze has been a chief player in the audiophile headphone market today. Audeze specializes on planar magnetic headphones much like Hifiman and MrSpeakers. Plana...
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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...
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 Talos By Cascadia Audio
The T50RP, perhaps the most modded planar headphone in the history of modding. People have gone beyond modding now and created businesses behind them like ZMF, Enigma, and MrSpeakers. Dan's team have gone from ...
Planar Musicality – An Interview with Igor Levitsky
Creating a brand new headphone cannot be easy, especially if the company you are working with has never brought out a headphone before. Yet if the planar PM series from Oppo is anything to go by it would seem t...
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The SINE By Audeze
I've shaken my fist at the audio community for the past 8 or so years, but that prolonged whining got me nowhere. It seemed like no matter how hard I cried, audio designers and the HiFi community have both ins...
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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 HE1000 by Hifiman
"You are going to need a bigger amp". Now looking around at my loveable Mjolnir and Hifiman EF6 SS amps that didn't inspire any fiscal and aural confidence but nevertheless those were the ringing 'Scheideresque...
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The HE400s By Hifiman
Where to next? Well, it seems the HE400s is next. I have this image in my mind of Dr. Fang Bian of Hifiman just sitting every Xmas pondering how to hit the market the following year or looking back and thinkin...
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The TH500RP by Fostex
The surge in portable listening in the past decade has encouraged manufacturers to work around the clock to refine more premium concepts in more affordable packages. The latest of such trends has been to incorp...
8.7
Oppo PM-3 Review
The Oppo PM-3 is the company's lightest and most compact form-factor closed-back planar magnetic headphone launched to date. It is priced at $399. Disclaimer: The Oppo PM3 was sent to us as a sample in excha...
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The Ether by MrSpeakers
If you’ve lived under a rock for the past few months, you may not be aware that Dan at MrSpeakers has again been up to no good as of late. Somewhere out in the desert in California, or perhaps a dark laborato...
The Alpha Prime by MrSpeakers
MrSpeakers, makers of our number one product of 2014, the Alpha Dogs, are back again with their latest incarnation, the Alpha Prime Planar headphone which is technically and fiscally their new Flagship headphon...
4.8
The HE400i and HE560 Planars by Hifiman
The HE400i and HE560 are two new full-size open-back planar headphone releases from Hifiman. The retail for $499 and $899 respectively. Disclaimer: The Hifiman R2R2000 HE-400i and HE-560 sent to us are sampl...
The ZMF x Vibro and ZMF Blackwood
The Fostex T50RP’s driver never fails to show its versatility. Years back, it showed it shone with some very simple mods with its stock enclosure. Gary Butcher found great success transplanting the driver into ...
The PM-2 Planar Headphone By Oppo
Oppo have recently released their second planar headphone titled the PM-2 which looks a lot like the PM-1 only this time the big unique selling point is the fact that you should get all of the benefits of the P...