While this DAP does go for a precious 2.500,00$ USD, there are those that will consider this DAP a very precious addition to their lineup.
The Headphone List: Earsonics S-EM6 review
The Headphone List continued to prove their dominance in the independent headphone review web re: the coverage of earphones and headphones with their detailed coverage of the Earsonics S-EM6.
Their conclusion is a little weak, but when you're in the business of reviewing, you can't play favourites.
“If you like a focus on the midrange and want to get lost in your music, the S-EM6 can help you accomplish that.”
Youtube: Amos Barnett reviews the Pico Slim
Great video review from Amos Barnett on one of the portable world's most well-engineered headphone amps. Pico Slim retails for 399$ USD.
SpinFit earphone ear pieces
Ridiculous as it may sound, these were the highlight for me at Fujiya's October Headphone Festival. Why? I choose most ear pieces for comfort and for isolation. And I'm always listening to earphones whilst out and about.
My current favourite ear pieces are from the ortofon eQ5. But where the exit aperture of ortofon pieces distends and compresses when in the ear, SpinFit pieces keep their shape. Sound quality is better preserved and comfort is excellent.
These pieces are incredible. Unfortunately, their medium-sized ear pieces are quite small and large sized pieces - which I've been waiting for since October - are still not on market. M-sized pieces work just fine for most shallow insertion earphones with small bodies. But large-sized earphones and M-sized SpinFits are not a good fit. For instance, the ortofon eQ5 isn't the best match.
Keep an eye on Ocharaku's SpinFit page for the latest on L stock.
Headfonia: Dita Audio The Answer review
I have the great pleasure of joining the writing staff at Headfonia, a website that I secretly detested when I was at TouchMyApps. Why? Because they were better than we were. Much better. But still I fought on in the plucky TMA way. Today, I'm a photographer by trade and a drunk writer by love. Headfonia shoots reviews like no one else and commands one of the coolest readerships out there.
I hope to be able to add content worthy of the Headfonia readership and brand.
My first drunken review is of the excellent Dita Audio The Answer, an earphone whose sound has captured my ardent love and admiration.
You can read the entire review here.
NwAvGuy: headphone and amp impedance
This article from a few years ago shook up the headphone world. For years, writers like me had argued and argued that amp makers should pay attention to output impedance, but for the most part, our entreaties fell on deaf ears. In forums, impedance preachers were derided as not listening to amps, but listening to spec. Until this dude came along and set things straight.
The headphone world is vastly different now.
God bless you, NwAvGuy.
ansible ohmage: Audio Technica AT-HA30USB 24/96kHz USB DAC
This is a new AT-HA30USB USB DAC interface from Audio Technica, the maker of my long-time go-to earphone, the CK10. This time, I've got it in the house with the ATH-IM70, about which Headfier, blazer78, wrote gobs and gobs.
Read moreohmage to the iBasso DX50
Last weekend I enjoyed the thrills and soul-numbing cacophony of my first Japanese funeral. I’ve started to think different. It wasn’t just watching a man in white taxi driver gloves and train conductor garb bashing my aunt’s skull and pelvis bones with cooking chopsticks that did it; it was just as much the trip back, when my iPhone’s battery went out. You never know when your time is up.
Read moreCypher Labs have got another little something up their sleeves
I totally dig the AlogoRythm DUET and the Theorem 720, but if Cypher Labs could kick up the little something something they hint about on their Facebook page:
“What do you say guys.. Would you like to see a mini portable amp from us at #CypherLabs? A smaller version of the #duet maybe?”
well, shizzle my nizzle, I say.
Antelope Audio's beautiful Zodiac Platinum
First thing's first. And first things always are photographs. The DSD256-capable Zodiac Platinum has been in Ω's office and plugged into Ω's phones and mono amps for about a week. And it rocks. Dear God, it rocks. For now, pictures will have to suffice.
Even the remote is machined from aluminium and makes nice metallic clicky sounds when clicked. I digs it. But I didn't have time to go all-out with the photos, so these will have to suffice.