8.8
Verum Audio Verum 1 Review
The Verum Audio Verum 1 is a new full-sized open-back planar magnetic headphone. It is priced at $300 and officially launched on Kickstarter Aug 21st, 2018. Disclaimer: The Verum Audio Verum 1 sent to us for t...
8.8
RHA Launch A Wireless Planar IEM – The CL2!
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...
9.3
Audeze LCD-MX4 Review
The Audeze LCD-MX4 is a new lighter, easier to drive studio version of the LCD-4 with some tonal tweaks for studio professionals. It is priced at $2995. Disclaimer: The Audeze LCD-MX4 sent to us for the purpos...
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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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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 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 ERIB-5a Planar IEM By oBravo
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
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 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...
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...
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...
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The LCD-XC Closed Planar by Audeze
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...
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The LCD-3 by Audeze
Back in 2010, Hi-Fi audio and Audeze become synonymous with each other, a hand in hand and a brothers in arms sort of thing. Funny now that I think back on it, Audeze is the only company that I've ever known to...