Tagged Planar

August 23, 2018

$501-1000, Featured, Features, Planar Magnetic

Independent audio company RHA has released the world’s first planar magnetic wireless headphone, the CL2 Planar. Precision under pressure The CL2 Planar is built around the most compact planar magnetic driv...

Audeze LCD-MX4 Review

May 30, 2018

Disclaimer: The Audeze LCD-MX sent to us for the purposes of this review is a loan sample and will be returned after this review. Thank you to Audeze for giving us this opportunity. Summit-Fi has experienced a...

Audio Zenith PMx2 Review

Klaus

November 12, 2017

$501-1000, Headphones, Planar

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...

The Ether C Flow By MrSpeakers

December 28, 2016

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 Talos By Cascadia Audio

August 31, 2016

$201-300, Headphones, Planar

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

June 12, 2016

Featured, Features, Planar

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...

The ERIB-5a Planar IEM By oBravo

June 5, 2016

$401-500, Hybrid Universal, IEM & Earphones

If you have been gazing at audio trade shows pics for the last two years you might have noticed a company called oBravo pop up quite a lot with their rather unique headphone driver designs combining dynamic dri...

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The SINE By Audeze

April 22, 2016

$401-500, Headphones, Planar, Portable

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

April 17, 2016

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...

The HE400s By Hifiman

November 1, 2015

$201-300, Headphones, Planar

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...

The TH500RP by Fostex

Smit Patel

September 9, 2015

$501-1000, Headphones, Planar

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...

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The PM-3 Planar Headphone by Oppo

August 5, 2015

$301-400, Headphones, Planar

This review has been cooking a while, it is tardy but no less relevant and it's the first out and out PM range planar headphone review I have done despite owning all 3 (thanks to Kyle and Mike for previous revi...

The Alpha Prime by MrSpeakers

February 15, 2015

$501-1000, Headphones, Planar

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...

The HE400i and HE560 Planars by Hifiman

January 11, 2015

$401-500, $501-1000, Headphones, Planar

People keep asking me what my favorite headphone is, or what one I would keep if I had only one and for the last 3 years I have said to them it is the Hifiman HE6. The HE6 and I have been through a lot of growi...

The PM-2 Planar Headphone By Oppo

Kyle

November 22, 2014

Full-Size, Gear Reviews, Headphones, Planar, Portable

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...

The LCD-XC Closed Planar by Audeze

October 19, 2014

About a year ago, Audeze released two new headphones in their lineup: The X ($1,699) and the XC ($1,799) to complement and fill a void between their previous generation models that included the LCD2/LCD3, and b...

The LCD-3 by Audeze

February 22, 2014