Newcomer Cleer Audio makes an impressive UK debut with its ‘ironless’ headphone design. Read our Cleer Flow Review Founded in San Diego in 2012, Cleer Audio only recently branched out to the UK. The company has a good pedigree and is made up of former engineers from Sony and Harman Kardon who developed the Flow’s … Read more
There’s no shortage of travel-savvy wireless noise-cancelling headphones on the market to choose from. But Pioneer has managed to load up on functionality – at an attractive price. Sometimes we know the price of equipment coming in for review, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we check it before we start, so we can judge the product … Read more
Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7b closed-back headphone HOT ON THE heels of last month’s Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT wireless headphone comes the ATH-MSR7b wired design. Rather than being a completely new model, it is a refresh of the original MSR7 that we saw back in HFC 398. External dimensions and general aesthetics of the updated model remain the same, but there … Read more
Abyss AB-1266 Phi CC edition planar magnetic headphones by Chris Martens The Abyss AB-1266 Phi edition planar-magnetic headphone represented an evolutionary improvement upon the original AB-1266 that first appeared in 2013. In fact my conclusion was that the AB-1266 Phi edition took “an already superb headphone design and made it markedly better,” specifically through a … Read more
Quad ERA-1 planar magnetic headphones by Chris Martens Back in the day, the first truly great loudspeakers I ever owned were the Quad ESL-57 electrostats and ever since I’ve viewed the brand with respect and even reverence. Frankly, those loudspeakers were so far ahead of their time that it took decades for electronics and source … Read more
Cleer NEXT headphone by Chris Martens Cleer is an ambitious manufacturer of personal audio products that makes a point of keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary mass-market trends. In practice, this means the firm presently offers two in-ear headphones (complete with various combinations of noise cancelling, wireless, and heart-rate monitoring features) and six … Read more
Campfire Audio Comet universal-fit earphones by Chris Martens In Hi-Fi+ issue 158, I favourably reviewed the Campfire Audio Polaris and Andromeda earphones, the former representing a performance-minded mid-priced entry and the latter standing as one of the firm’s flagship offerings. Both earphones featured what I described as the firm’s “somewhat angular” signature machined metal earpieces, … Read more
NURAPHONE Review These over-ear/in-ear hybrid headphones ‘profile’ your unique listening response to deliver a personalised performance. Benny Har-Even admires the science These aren’t your usual over-ear headphones… WHILE MANY OF us tend to form a personal relationship with our kit after we’ve used it for some time, these innovative headphones from Nuraphone look to do … Read more
1More 1MEJH0006 Review – Or “Triple-Driver Over-Ear Headphones,” to put it more pleasantly As veterans of the magazine business, we’ve done extensive research over the years, and we know your eyes flicked to that score box down there before they made it up to these words. We also figure you’re probably tutting over a set of cans … Read more
Hi-res audio for gaming and music? DAC’s entertainment SteelSeries Arctis Pro + GameDAC Review – High-resolution audio is PC gaming’s favorite “Next Big Thing” at the moment. Just as HD displays brought our eyes out of the dark ages and into a new era of crystal-clear game worlds, hi-res audio wants to bathe your ears … Read more
Roccat Khan AIMO – Is RGB lighting and high-res audio enough to make this king Khan? Can you hear the difference? That’s the million dollar question when it comes to this new model in Roccat’s RGB-lit range. Boasting 7.1 high-resolution audio support, it can articulate surround sound and sparkling lossless audio at the same time. And. … Read more
Focal’s latest luxo-headphone slots in between the Elear and Utopia models, in the hotly-contested ‘affordable high-end’ middle ground. Read our Focal Clear review. Review: Ken Kessler. Lab: Keith Howard [wpsm_toplist] If I have learned anything about committing one’s thoughts to print, it is Never Make Predictions. They will invariably be wrong and will come back to … Read more