The Audiophiliac’s top 10 (full-size) headphones for 2015
October 26, 2015 Comments Off on The Audiophiliac’s top 10 (full-size) headphones for 2015
” The best stuff is never cheap, but even top-tier headphones sell for a tiny fraction of the cost of the world’s best speakers. I will follow up with a top 10 affordable headphone list later this year.”
Kingsound KS-H3, M-20 & M-03 – Electrostatic Glow
October 23, 2015 Comments Off on Kingsound KS-H3, M-20 & M-03 – Electrostatic Glow
My first concern for these is the build quality. Although they are at the entry level pricing for electrostatics, in the bigger picture these are still higher end headphone equipment, especially the M-20 at almost two grand US. The headphones themselves are very light, which is only a good thing when wearing but looking closer at the build quality it does not ooze that premium of similar priced equipment, not the Audeze EL-8 (regardless of whether I actually like the sound of it), ZMF Blackwood (which is DIY to an extent) or any number of Sennheiser models from the HD600 upwards.
AKG K553
October 21, 2015 Comments Off on AKG K553
There are times and in certain genres where I felt like more quantity was needed, sadly the K553 doesn’t respond to Bass Boosting as much as I hoped. True, it does not lose a ton of quality from +1dB to +5dB on the low end added in, but it doesn’t physically react with more quantity very much at all as well: I could hardly hear and feel a much alteration in quantity or thickness when boosting from +1dB to +5dB. It isn’t until I reach +6dB that a serious change happened and things muddied up quite a lot, casting a shadow and haze over the entire mid range in a negative sense of the word.
Audeze LCD4 CanJam at RMAF 2015 – Video
October 20, 2015 Comments Off on Audeze LCD4 CanJam at RMAF 2015 – Video
HiFiMan HE1000 Headphones
October 20, 2015 Comments Off on HiFiMan HE1000 Headphones
In my first listens to the HE1000s after breaking them in, I heard a generally neutral sound with just a trace of treble emphasis and an extremely convincing, realistic reproduction of space — but I could say much the same of the HE560s. Only in direct comparisons with other headphones did the HE1000s demonstrate their superiority. Using the Aurender Flow to drive the HiFiMans, I spent a lot of time comparing the HE1000s to two other high-end, open-back, planar-magnetic models I had on hand: HiFiMan’s HE560 ($899) and Audeze’s LCD-X ($1699).
Hifiman Edition X
October 14, 2015 Comments Off on Hifiman Edition X
Early rumours or expectations (no one has heard them yet except for Steve): Smaller soundstage, warmer, priced between HE-6 ($1,299) and the HE-1000 ($2,999).
DEFINITIVE TECHNOLOGY SYMPHONY 1 HEADPHONES REVIEW
October 14, 2015 Comments Off on DEFINITIVE TECHNOLOGY SYMPHONY 1 HEADPHONES REVIEW
We loved the sound by Bluetooth, the slight brightness of the active circuitry compensating for any softness through the Bluetooth link and delivering a lively, balanced and energetic performance. Their 50mm drivers can deliver low, as witnessed by Neil Young’s Walk With Me suitably shuddering the skull under its low resonances, they had the light touch required for the detail in Paul McCartney’s My Valentine, and they passed the congestion test of kd lang’s The Air that I Breathe, its tricky layers and rising dynamics remaining smooth and information-rich even during the massed vocal peaks.
Parrot Zik 2.0 – Bluetooth Headphone & App Review
October 13, 2015 Comments Off on Parrot Zik 2.0 – Bluetooth Headphone & App Review
AKG K812 Dynamic Open Back
October 11, 2015 Comments Off on AKG K812 Dynamic Open Back
The K812 really excels in the bass department — in that it is very flat for a headphone — and without mid-bass emphasis that I hear in numerous other headphones. Unlike bass-heavy studio headphones, such as the Sony MDR-7520, the K812 bottom end is clean, tight and fast with the energy of a really good speaker. It is part of the reason you can hear so clearly into the midrange and treble. No diverting bass boominess to mask the subtle, upper-frequency sounds.
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