TASTING NOTES Warm Spices Chocolate Maple Syrup IN FOCUS Bokeh, the beautiful way the recognizable softens into an infinite tessellation of shapes and colors. Concave and convex glass elements pushing together and pulling apart forming a backdrop of fat circles, anamorphic smears, and dizzying Petzval cyclones. Visual language like this creeps into how we think about and describe audio experiences. For example, that headphone has soft, round bass, or the treble was tack sharp. ZMFs newest closed back entry may have a lot of people experiencing...

ZMF - WHEN YOU'RE HERE YOU'RE FAMILY I’d like to start this review off by acknowledging my bias for ZMF gear. I think Zach and his team are making headphones that, while technically proficient, really put musicality and enjoyment first. I respect that there is another engineering philosophy that searches for truth in neutrality, but I don’t connect with that. Hearing the Caldera at this past CanJam SoCal was a small revelation. I bought a demo unit right there on the spot because it was absolutely the best thing I had heard. Listening in the months...