My Video Review: After trying some of the best dynamic, planar-magnetic, and electrostatic headphones, you would think that new cans seen on the horizon wouldn’t impress a headphone junkie like me. The truth is, new technology always moves forward and since we already have top-tier headphones on …

My Video Review: Ah…the sound of my youth. How vivid, beautiful, fresh, and seducing you are. I’m not about the beer-tapping sound and partying at ear-bleeding levels, I’m about the Sennheiser house sound being polished for so many years now. My journey as a headphone enthusiast started with a set …

A few years ago, Hifiman released the Edition X planar headphones as a more sensitive version of their high-end HE1000, costing a pretty penny back them. However, as time passed, they began releasing more affordable options, such as the Ananda and Sundara. Despite more budget-friendly options, there …

Hi everyone, I’m back with another video for a beautiful pair of open-back planar-magnetic headphones called Moondrop Venus. Everyone knows Moondrop by now, as they are one of the fastest growing IEM makers out there and after being impressed by their Starfield and KATO IEMs, I couldn’t wait to try …

My Video Review: Hi everyone, you probably didn’t miss me in December, but as I was slowly recovering from a nasty flu that glued me to a bed and shut down my hearing abilities, I realized how much I missed doing my job, listening to freshly released tunes, writing down sound impressions and …

A few months ago I posted my Hifiman Sundara review – which I still consider one of the best headphones you can buy at ~$300. You might have a different opinion and that’s perfectly fine, but after weighting all their pros and cons, it was clear to me that Sundara will compete with anything in that …

About three years ago I posted my FiiO FH7 review, instantly becoming my all-time favorite IEMs, working as daily drivers up until last month when a package arrived at my door. I’ve been talking about them with FiiO for a while now and I even wrote a lengthy email explaining what should be improved …

My Video Review: Planar-magnetic technology dates all the way back to 1970-ties, where brands as Wharfedale, Fostex, Sansui, Aiwa, Yamaha, Audio-Technica and NAD started paving grounds for what later would be known as planar headphones. While others stopped tinkering with such technology, moving …

My Video Review: I’m publishing headphone reviews starting with 2009, but if I’m looking deeper into my past, I’m doing them for at least 20 years, always ranking every single headphone that passed through these hands, so I wouldn’t forget any of them. Back in 2009, Sennheiser was releasing the …

My Video Review: Let me give you a little inside information about FiiO. They never rest on laurus nobilis leaves, they never compromise, never settle or slow down innovation. It’s one of those stubborn companies that are pushing the envelope on a daily basis. Every month, a new IEM, portable DAP, …

My Video Review: While people still dislike Hifiman’s Susvara price point and their discouraging sensitivity, we love when top-class technology from world’s best planar headphones is making way into lower-tiered headphones at prices that people can actually afford. If you are looking closer, …

My Video Review: Sendy Audio and their sister company Sivga Audio always appeared on my radar on a regular basis, as those two always resonated with good looking headphones at affordable prices, that hopefully were good sounding too. A few months ago, we bumped into their AIVA headphone and …

My Video Review: Oh, my goodness, what a busy year! It seems that headphone tinkerers around the globe went berserk in 2021 after a dormant 2020. Hifiman went all-in with stealth magnets on their Arya and Deva Pro, Sendy Audio released their golden child – the Peacock, Dan Clark Audio wowed the …

My Video Review: I still remember when IEM makers were trying to squeeze as many BA drivers in their creations, some squeezing as much as 24 drivers per side, yet Sennheiser drops the curtains on their top-dog single-driver dynamic IEM, that put them in the race for the best sound on the go. IE800 …

My Video Review: When Drop.com started branding third-party headphones under their banner and selling them by tens of thousands, Hi-Fi retailers around the globe opened their third eye. That clever move attracted unwanted eyes and it was only a matter of time when HiFi retailers would make their …

My Video Review: Everything started last year on a Friday evening. While I was enjoying my time in the company of a glass of whisky and some electric blues, I’m getting a call from a good friend asking if it’s possible making a headphone that should be different to anyone else’s, affordable, …

My Video Review: Sendy Audio might sound like a new headphone company coming from the land of the Red Dragon, except that they aren’t. They are manufacturing headphone drivers for several years now, they are even providing them for various headphone manufacturers. That’s right folks, Sendy Audio …

My Video Review: I have long relationship with FiiO, way before this website came into existence. You see, portable audio took a big portion of my life. My journey started with portable cassette players in the 90-ties and since then, audio gear that could fit into my pockets always appealed to me …

My Video Review: Before I move on with my actual review, I just want to make it clear that headphone listening is the biggest hobby of my life…for multiple reasons. With headphones you don’t need expensive room treatments, absorbers or diffusers, you don’t need obedient neighbors, you will never …

My Video Review: There’s always a first time for everything in life. In my case, I am meeting Hiby Audio and all their doings for the first time. In case of Hiby Audio (Hiby from now on), they just finished working on their first flagship IEM that is called Crystal6. You probably heard about their …

My Video Review: Last week I’ve tested some smooth, relaxing and warm sounding IEMs that could be listened to no end, but today some very bold, mean and visceral music making machines will be hitting my ear drums unmercifully. I’ve already met IKKO Audio when their OH1 hybrid IEMs landed on my …

My Video Review: Meze Audio is surely one of the fastest growing headphone manufacturer I know of. Their Empyrean is stealing hearts around the globe for three years in a row with its unique sound signature and unmistakable look, while their heavenly RAI Penta offers the same liquidity and …

My Video Review: Gold Planar might sound like a new company in the headphone business, but they are far from that. They are manufacturing audio drivers for several years now, they are even providing them for several established headphone and loudspeaker manufacturers as OEM drivers. That’s right …

My Video Review: When FiiO came out of nowhere a decade ago, they came with affordable portable headphone amplifiers to be used with iPods. Since then, slowly but surely FiiO crawled in every corner of portable audio. So much so, that nowadays there isn’t a product type that FiiO isn’t already …

My Video Review: In the spring of 2020, the world has gone crazy, everything turned upside down for most of us, we forgot what traveling and socializing really means, exchanging all that goodness with a place in the boring Helheim (lockdown). There were also glimpses of light as most of my …

My Video Review: Before I move on with my actual review, I want to tell you first why you should consider Kennerton headphones in the first place. I never meet Kennerton’s CEO: Valentin Kazanzhi in person, but after exchanging emails in a span of a few months, I feel like I know Valentin for a …

My Video Review: When I’m saying LittleDot out loud, I’m thinking about tube-based headphone and loudspeaker amplifiers the most, then about solid-state amplifiers of all kinds and then about digital sources. If you would tell me that LittleDot would start producing portable In-Ear-Monitors a few …

My Video Review: I remember going to my first headphone enthusiast meeting, I came with a pair of Audeze LCD-3 in my hands, someone came with top Sennheisers and Grados and the host was rocking a pair of Fostex TH900 for all his music needs. I asked why a closed-back and what is so amazing about …