About the review   With thanks indeed to Joe of @Rock Jaw Audio for arranging a Grand Tour of the new hybrid flagship IEM , the Rock Jaw Audio Resonate. The Grand Tour is well underway, whether there are more places left to be booked is a debatable point in itself. If you are interested, LOOK NO FURTHER! Navigate to http://www.head-fi.org/t/834075/rock-jaw-audio-resonate-iem-the-grand-tour , see what you think, and send @Rock Jaw Audio a PM pronto. This and any other review would not be possible without the goodwill of the manufacturers. I accept...

Introduction   With many thanks to Matt Esau of SCV Distribution and @glassmonkey for introducing us in the first place, I had the opportunity to spend almost a month with the Fostex HP-A4BL Dac/Amp. This was a loan review model offered to me in return for a write up of my opinion on it. The opinions are mine and mine alone, I welcome other's views of course. So much so that it just so happens I have actually recorded a sound sample of the Dac/Amp itself and volume matched it to an Aune S6 and a Chord Mojo. If you wish I shall provide the link and...

  Introduction These headphones were provided to me in return for a full and frank review - for good or for bad. I share no affiliation with SCV and am not trying to advertise this product. You will see it around various Audio Shows and will get the chance to try it out for yourself. If you buy one and you think it's rubbish. Fine. Tell me/ us on here. the more opinions the better. But take it as you will, this is mine. With great thanks to Matt Esau of SCV Distribution and @glassmonkey for introducing us and starting this ball rolling, I have...

Fostex TH610 Headphones     Audio quality 4 Build quality 4 Useability 4.5 Value 4.25 Overall Rating 4.13 The Good : Bass - in plentiful supply Mids and Highs - Nothing grating here The price - it's just been reduced The versatility of a closed can The finish - Walnut finish is very tasteful The Bad : Lacking the airiness of an Open Can Meze 99 Classics are close to this in SQ (although not quite there) On the fence : Bass - whilst it may be too much for some on some tracks may be what some readers here...

Aune S6     Introduction Thank you to Shelly from Aune and thank you to @glassmonkey. The Aune M1S Digital Audio Player       came my way and under the intense scrutiny of my reviewing gaze it came up trumps. It was really fast and sounded as good as many far more expensive players. No sooner had that gone than I got the S6 Dac/Amp, a desktop Dac/Amp commanding a mid tier price bracket and with a whole lot more electronics packed into it. I got 7 precious days with the S6. Before you think that is an adequate time to get to know a piece of...

    With thanks to our great supporter of headfi @Andykong, I have had the Cayin i5   on loan for a fortnight or so. I have had the chance to listen to it extensively. My focus has mainly been on the sound quality as displayed using whatever methods came quickly to hand with using the features available. Whilst not exhaustive it was as thorough as I could manage given the timeframe. These are my opinions based on my subjective thoughts on what constitutes good sound quality. There are 194 pages of impressions on the I5 on the headfi headgear...

Introduction   With thanks to @glassmonkey , and Aune, here is my first review for 2017 - the M1S DAP.   I shall not be labouring the point. There is a 55 page discussions and impressions thread http://www.head-fi.org/t/827960/aune-m1s-impressions-discussion-thread-aunes-newest-hi-res-dap-with-ess9012km-2-5mm-balanced-out. If they haven't spotted something in that thread that represents a deal breaker for you, believe me , it isn't worth worrying about. What I'm here to talk to you about is what the player sounds like, how it fares against the...

Hidizs AP60 DAP 7.8 SOUND AND BUILD QUALITY 7.5/10                     SPECIFICATIONS/FEATURES 7.4/10                     VALUE FOR MONEY 8.5/10                                                                       Thanks go to http://earphonia.com who kindly lent me the AP60 for review   We are in the budget end of the Digital Audio Player market. They don’t get much cheaper than the Hidizs AP60, at the bargain price of $89 and less through various aliexpress.com outlets. The...

by Takeanidea  theBit Opus#2 Digital Audio Player Review Overall 8.8 SOUND AND BUILD QUALITY 9.6/10 SPECIFICATIONS/FEATURES 9/10 VALUE FOR MONEY 8/10   Thanks go to http://earphonia.com who were kind enough to lend the Opus#2 for review   Intro   The first time I heard of theBIT company was when I was sent a review model of the Audio Opus 1 in April 2015. This Digital Audio Player has been around since the end of 2015 and has been consistently improved by the many firmware released, updated to a point where it has gained an enviable...

iDSD BL Christmas Dacamp with all the trimmings Introduction   I have been lucky enough to be part of a very special tour.  iFi has given me the chance to look at their heavily updated iDSD. They have called it the Black Label Edition. I’m part of a review tour. As reviewers on headfi, we are bound by only 2 things really; we must post a review and we must keep the unit for the length of time specified by the company. iFi gave me 7 days to find out as much as I can about this dacamp. This is the result. Hope you like it. If you don’t I’m sorry. I...

Introduction   With thanks to my esteemed colleague and front page superstar @glassmonkey for fronting this review spectacular.  3 cheers also go out to Iain and the rest of the RHA team for filling up my dining room table for 10 days. I didn’t think 10 days would be long enough to get through all this kit; my partner disagreed. She seemed to think 2 days was more than ample and seemed to glare at all those boxes. Especially when I wasn’t looking. I was able to rise above all that, and when push came to shove, I found pointing at my ears and...

  Thanks go to  earphonia.com who were pleased to let me give the excellently valued Co-Donguri  earphone a spin.   Pairings Equipment   Hidizs AP60 Chord Mojo Dac   Intro My second IEM review from the Ocharaku company, little known outside of their native Japan. Ocharaku have no distributors outside of their own country and have not been at any of the shows I have attended in Europe. It would be great to have them exhibit their excellent products in Europe or the USA, as lots of us are missing out on a very special signature. Concentrating...

                                                                                            Gratitude and greetings go out to  RHA Team and @Glassmonkey - thank you so much for giving me the chance to be one of the very first to get my greedy ears on the CL1/DL1/CL750 trio. What a package! Wow! 2.2 Kgs of the Scottish Company’s Battle Cry to the Audio establishment. Do RHA have the strategy to overturn the status quo?  Is it a massacre or will the white flag be waved?   Introduction   You may be aware of my feelings on the RHA CL1 Ceramic IEM. If...

      I got the honour of being part of the C1 World Tour .Thank you for the opportunity Micah and the RHA Team. Selflessly our Tour Organiser , @glassmonkey gave me the chance to unwrap this pretty special bundle of 2 IEMs and a Dacamp.Whatever I did, thank you! It’s not every day that 3 new products from the same manufacturer arrive on your doorstep. I have the rather daunting task on being the first person to receive the RHA Trio - the C1 IEM, D1 Dacamp and CL750 IEM. I won’t say I drew the short straw - of course , everyone wants to get their...

This is my take on the SUI version of the Flat4 Dynamic driver IEMs from Ocharaku of Japan , and is taken from my review on earphonia.com .   Ocharaku Flat-4 SUI – In Ear Tech Is Driven Further Forward by Takeanidea Flat-4 Sui Ocharaku Earphone SOUND SIGNATURE 8.5/10 BUILD QUALITY 7/10 VALUE 8/10 PROS Bass in the realms of a full sized Sub and mid bass punch and warmth Mid range detailed clear not particularly veiled CONS Treble sometimes slightly too energetic for some tastes High end sources required for larger sized soundstage...

My friend @Krisman is on a quest to find the perfect IEM. During this exhaustive search , he bought a beautiful pair of Noble Audio Savants.   Recently we did a swap where I sent him my sennheiser IE800s and he kindly sent me these to try. I have had them for 2 months and it is high time I sent them back. Today is the last day I shall have with them so I have put them through their paces for one final time. And what a test it will prove to be.....   Introduction   The Noble Audio Savants are Universal In Ear Monitors. The Noble website...

With the kind permission of @Gracesheng of Mixcder I have been sent 2 sets of Mixcder ShameMe 5 Bluetooth Headphones. My requirements were to demo away to my hearts content and to also mix it up with my long suffering headphone widow Jo1. This I have done in sufficient enough quantities to relay to you what I found along the journey towards Bluetooth freedom I have worked with Grace before on a review tour of the Ausdom M04 , another lightweight Bluetooth headphone that was competitively priced. But this tour was for 2 of the same headphones ...

This might be one , if not the , single best purchase I have done since I started on this journey at headfi. The **** UEs from **** Earphones Store at aliexpress.com . I am going to tell you all about them . They are , for the price , without fault. This is the picture I took when I had unwrapped them after they arrived all the way from China . I couldn't believe what I was seeing !       These are the model details from the sites web page. It tells you that we have a hybrid low impedance fairly low sensitivity detachable cable IEM. With...

With thanks to @alexsv of WyWires and @ejong7 my esteemed friend and headfier extraordinaire, I have the privilege of bringing to the UK the WyWires Red Headphone Cable. I have been sent these all the way from the USA in return for a review on this here very forum for headphone crazies.   Introduction The Red Headphone Cables are made in a standard 5 feet length, the price for them is $299. Dealers have them available for in home trials. All top headphones with detachable cables can be catered for. The ethos of WyWires? My take on the company...

The F7200 is a single balanced armature in ear moniter from the Japanese company Final. Final have been in business since 1974 and in my opinion make some retro looking IEM and full size headphones. Their range is across the whole spectrum of the market; their budget model starts at under 40 pounds. The flagship model- a closed back full sized no less , sets you back 3 and a half grand........ These people are serious about their headphones. I was sent a sample of their latest attempt by hifiheadphones , the shop in the UK where you can get these...