XI Audio Broadway – First Contact
The Xi Audio Broadway is a transportable balanced/single-ended Class A headphone amplifier with both AC and battery power supply. It is priced at $2,299. Disclaimer: The Xi Audio Broadway sent to us for the pu...
8.7
DROP Liquid Carbon X + SDAC DAC/AMP Review
The DROP Liquid Carbon X + SDAC DAC/AMP is a hybrid of the x Alex Cavalli Liquid Carbon X amp and the Massdrop x Grace Design Standard DAC (or SDAC). It is priced at $380. Disclaimer: The Liquid Carbon X + SDA...
Rupert Neve Designs RNHP – First Contact
The Rupert Neve Designs RNHP Precision Headphone Amplifier is the debut launch of the company's first-ever dedicated desktop headphone amplifier. It is priced at $499. Disclaimer: The Rupert Neve Designs RNHP ...
8.9
Yulong DA10 Review
The Yulong DA10 is an all-in-one desktop pure DAC, preamp and balanced headphone amplifier featuring an AK4497 DAC and up to 3W of output power. Disclaimer: The Yulong DA10 sent to us is a sample in exchange f...
8.5
Monoprice Monolith™ Liquid Spark Review
The Monprice Monolith™ Liquid Spark is a compact transportable headphone amplifier developed by Alex Cavalli for Monoprice. Disclaimer: The Monprice Monolith™ Liquid Spark sent to us for this review is a paid-...
8.5
8.8
Burson Fun & Bang Review
The Burson Fun and Burson Bang are a set of new compact headphone and power amps ideal for near-field speaker and PC solutions. They are priced from $299. Disclaimer: The Burson Fun & Play sent to us are s...
9.5
Xi Audio Formula S Review
The Xi Audio Formula S is a brand new top of the line solid-state headphone amplifier price at $3499. Disclaimer: The Xi Audio Formula S sent to us for the purposes of this review is a sample and does not have...
0
Feliks Audio Euforia Review
Not too long ago, Feliks Audio sent over their Elise amplifier for a jolly good run through our gauntlet. It passed with flying colors, of course. This time around, they've sent over their crowning achievement,...
0
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...
0
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...
0
The Soloist SL MK2 By Burson Audio
Kind of hard to say no to Burson, isn't it? At this point, it seems like Burson is a never-fail company that can churn out wins in their sleep. There have been far too many stellar product releases in the ampli...
0
The K5 By FiiO
This one slipped down the publishing schedule, my bad, but it is rather good timing considering we just published the DK1 Multifunction dock a few weeks back which offers a slither of what the K5 can do with th...
4.9
The Mojo By Chord Electronics
The vast majority of people who buy music today buy it via streaming, or individual purchases, and then drag and drop the files onto their phone, DAP, or carry it on their laptop. There are now a ton of competi...
The P5 “Falcon” by Ibasso
It has been the trend of late to roll out eye catching statements with portable amps from big companies who are preferring to roll DAC's and amps into combo units and pitch them as your smartphone or iGadget co...
0
The Sustain84 By Cypher Labs
I can never quite tell if Cypher Labs practices soft launches or things just creep up on me with their product line but towards the end of 2015 David and his team got all tubey and launched the portable tube am...
0
The K1 by FiiO
FiiO have been doing a commendable job in updating their DAC & amp line-up to suit a wide variety of user tastes and preferences across all price ranges. Their recent offering, the FiiO K1, is an example of...
0
The Heron 5 by Airist Audio
A new player has entered the battle field and I’ve almost no information to share about Airist Audio apart from the fact they are a small team of smart people from the likes of MIT, Harvard to name but a few co...
6.4
The Phonitor Mini by SPL
SPL’s products have always been exclusive to me, I never knew anyone who owned a Phonitor…but I sure as hell wanted one despite that. It came to a bit of a shock to me that the company fashioned a mini version...
The E10K Olympus 2 by FiiO
I know I have reviewed the FiiO E10 on this site before but I felt that since I really liked those when it came out that I should review the latest version as well. I don't know what FiiO did to the first updat...