For some reason even though I live in Hong Kong, I had never tried DUNU products until I went to LA and attended CanJam. I immediately spotted the uniquely named DUNU Falcon C and tried it, happily finding another extremely tasteful mid priced product. When I talked to the folks at the DUNU booth, they explained to me that they used to be an OEM company, producing audio products for other companies. Eventually, they realized that they had the experience and expertise to design and make their own products, and so DUNU was formed. I had seen the DUNU...

ChiFi audio products often get a bad rep. Especially Knowledge Zenith (KZ), who has become infamous for straight up copying the aesthetics of many other companies. But the KZ ZS10 is something different. We would like to thank Gearbest.com for sending us the KZ ZS10 for review. Gearbest is a site that sells many affordable and quality electronics. We are not commercially affiliated in any way and this review is our honest and independent opinion. You can get the KZ ZS10 from them for just 40USD! Knowledge Zenith is a small Chinese company that...

We review another great budget friendly giant killer earphone from Kinera, the H3. The personal audio market has grown significantly. Even my dad had just recently asked me about my thoughts on Bang and Olufsen, saying that he heard his colleagues talking about the brand. I firmly believe it has not been without the help of popularly bashed brands such as Beats and Skullcandy. Hate them all you want, but they have attracted mass attention to a niche product that many consumers did not even care for before. We are now seeing a trend where these...

I’ve been anticipating the release of the Acoustune HS1551 for ages, and now that I’ve finally gotten my hands on one, I’m happy to say that this is a very refined single dynamic driver design, not only in terms of sounds but also looks and build quality. I first encountered Acoustune in the Hong Kong High End AudioVisual Expo 2016 in the Soundwave Booth, when the Acoustune HS1551 was still a prototype known as the HS1301 (as far as I know). I had never heard of Acoustune before, but I was open to trying new IEMs, and although I only had a brief...

We review Rock Jaw Audio’s Resonate hybrid earphone as part of the review tour on HeadFi. Does this small indie company have another hit product in the making? Rock Jaw Audio is a small audio company from the UK. Their latest product, the Resonate, is yet another earphone with the increasingly popular hybrid design configuration – basically combining the bass reproduction prowess of dynamic drivers with the mid and high refinement of balanced armatures. Since balanced armatures are generally weak at producing convincing, natural sounding bass...

  1More just can’t stop shaking up the audiophile market – the 1More Triple Driver was a huge success and gave superb sound quality for its price, even beating out many more expensive earphones. Luckily for us consumers, they’ve gone and one-upped themselves with the Quad Driver. We would like to thank 1More for sending us this 1More Quad Driver Hybrid Earphone for review purposes. The Quad Driver currently goes for $199.99USD, click here to find out more about these excellent earphones! With the tremendous success of the Triple Driver which was...

The Lyra, released back in 2014-15 was refreshed along with Campfire Audio's dynamic and hybrid lineup as the Lyra II, and is a personal single dynamic driver favourite. We would like to thank Campfire Audio for supplying us with the Lyra II free of charge for this review. The Campfire Audio Lyra II goes for 699USD. You can click here for more information. You should be ashamed of yourself if you're an audiophile or earphone enthusiast and aren't already acquainted with the name Campfire Audio. A small boutique earphone maker that started off...

My first Bluetooth earphone review is from non other than 1More, a US/Chinese company that has been making waves in the earphone market with their very affordable and high quality designs.   We would like to thank 1MORE for this opportunity to review the 1MORE iBFree Bluetooth Earphones. We received this unit free of charge. The iBFree costs 59.99USD - click here for more info!   1More  is an audio company headquartered in San Diego, California but probably has strong ties to China, which in my opinion is great because the Chinese personal audio...

    If you haven't heard of this 100USD gem of an earphone, you're really missing out. The 1More Triple Driver In Ear Earphone is basically unbeatable at this price point and is my personal top recommendation.   We would like to thank 1MORE for this opportunity to review the 1MORE Triple Driver In Ear Earphone. We received this unit free of charge. The Triple Driver costs 99.99USD - click here for more info!   People always talk about 'giant killers' on Head-Fi budget earphone threads, claiming that their latest Chi-Fi earphone is able to beat...

Meze, a small Romanian company which has had some experience with over-ear headphones and now has a small earphone lineup, has come out with their latest earphone - the 12 Classics. We would like to thank Meze for sending us this demo unit of the Meze 12 Classics as part of their worldwide Review Tour. The 12 Classics is Meze's first in ear earphone product offering (along with the 11 Neo). They seem to have a pretty decent reputation from what I've seen online - their 99 Classics over-ear headphone comes at a competitive price, and has quite a...

  Not satisfied with having just a superstar pure balanced armature and a pure dynamic driver product selection, Campfire Audio has also decided to begin their foray into hybrid territory with their latest release – the Dorado. We would like to thank Campfire Audio for supplying us with the Dorado free of charge for this review. The Campfire Audio Dorado goes for about 999USD. You can click here for more information. Campfire Audio has hit it out of the ballpark with every single one of their releases ever since their humble beginnings with the...

We would like to thank Jaben Hong Kong for letting us borrow this demo unit at no cost for the purposes of this honest review. We are not affiliated with them in any way. This review was written on my own blog, which I would also like to share to the Head-Fi community.         After its success with the original Oriolus, Mini Audio has come up with another hybrid offering, the Oriolus Forsteni. Named after the Grey-collared Oriole instead of the Golden Oriole, it’s half the price of the original with a slightly different driver configuration...

  IEMs with hybrid configurations (ones that combine both dynamic drivers and balanced armatures) are getting more and more popular these days, and my first review of a hybrid is none other than the Oriolus mk2, which is already highly acclaimed in the audiophile community.  I first came across the Oriolus over a year ago when it was still in its first iteration – my friend @prismstorm had told me about this new hybrid thing that people in Hong Kong had started going crazy over, with comments like “strange chaotic soundstage”. The first version...

The recent surge in popularity of portable audio, especially in earphones, has provided us with a huge amount of great budget Chinese offerings. Always on the lookout for affordable products, I found a Massdrop deal for the MacaW GT100s, which features a full metal housing as well as changeable tuning filters so I decided to buy a pair to review which put me back around $500 HKD (65USD).  I’ve had good experiences with Chinese-made IEMs such as the Xiaomi Pistons 2 Xiaomi Hybrids, VSD3, and also the Havi B3 – all great sounding for 100-500HKD – so...

  Established in 2006, Audio Line Out (“ALO”) made its name by building high end audio cables for audio equipment. In 2015, ALO announced the creation of another branch that would be responsible for making IEMs called Campfire Audio (“CA”). Since then, CA has launched an impressive lineup of IEMs: the single BA Orion, the dual BA Nova, the single DD Beryllium driver Lyra and the four BA Jupiter.  Their latest 5 driver flagship offering, the Andromeda caught my eye and I decided to take a leap and purchased it. In my earlier days of this hobby, I...