The Composer is the new flagship from Austrian Audio. The very young company, which was founded in 2017 with a core team of former AKG employees, manufactures microphones and headphones. In the headphone sector, these have so far mostly been from the lower price segment up to a maximum of €399. This makes me all the more excited about the Composer, which has an RRP of €2500. Long before the Composer saw the light of day, relevant forums were already reporting on a new "super headphone" from the well-known and much "appreciated" headphone guru...

The FIBAE 7 Unlimited is the top model from Custom Art, which is based in Poland. Custom Art was founded in 2012 by Piotr Granicki and now has 12 years of experience in the field of IEMs. The first top model was the Harmony 8 in 2014, which was continuously improved to become the Harmony 8.2. At some point, the generation of FIBAE models was introduced, culminating in the FIBAE 7 Unlimited. The name is derived from "Flat Impendance Balanced Armature Earphone" and was the first system in the world to ensure that an IEM always maintains the same...

Double post review. Review is now on the official Letshuoer S15 thread here: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/letshuoer-s15.26854/reviews#review-32292

The Cadenza 12 is the flagship product from Letshuoer. It is the first part of a series called Halo for very special products. With many years of experience in acoustic engineering and lots of patents pending, the result is a high-end IEM consisting of 12 drivers with a 6-way crossover. A 10mm dynamic Kevlar dome driver as well as BA drivers provide here in interaction for the bass range. Also an unusual combination, which I did not know otherwise. The other frequency ranges are covered exclusively by BA drivers. The BA drivers are based on proven...

In this review I'll be highlighting the Multiverse Mentor model from Unique Melody. For many the best IEM from Unique Melody ever and in some circles it is even considered the best IEM worldwide. So we are not dealing with just any TOTL IEM, but with the crême de la crême of IEM development. And my expectations were just as high for this model from Unique Melody. Recently I could already write a review about the MEST MK3 and I found this model very successful. I especially liked the bone conduction driver, which is responsible for a "gripping" sound...

The ME900 is the IEM top model from Shanling. Available at a price of 899€, the ME900 consists of a hybrid system with a total of 8 drivers, which is housed in a titanium cabinet. The use of such materials in this price range is quite remarkable. The driver selection is made up of 2 dynamic drivers and 8 BA drivers. The two 6mm dynamic drivers are responsible for the precise reproduction of the bass range. They are made of crystal-coated polymer biomembranes. Each of the dynamic drivers contains a pair of N52 neodymium magnets, which achieve a...

The latest model with the name Volür from 64 Audio is the successor to the popular Nio. With a price of 2749€, it is above the Trio and below the U18s/t. That's a lot more expensive than the Nio, but the Volür brings some technical innovations that currently ensure a unique selling point at 64 Audio. More on the technical highlights later. The scope of delivery includes 64 Audio typical a leather case, a 3.5mm black premium cable, stickers, three different sets of ear tips (foam, silicone, SpinFit CP155) and 4 different Apex modules (MX, M12, M15...

The SE-1 from the company Sineaptic is a very unusual headphone, so I really wanted to test it. It is the world's first wireless headphones with ribbon drivers. Ribbon there was what? Exactly RAAL-requisite SR1a/b is also a ribbon headphone. And as you know, to drive them you need special amplifiers that can deliver extremely high currents. This amplifier unit is of course also on board with the SE-1 and you need nothing else to operate, except a sound source with Bluetooth chip or a source with 3.5mm connector, because the SE-1 can also be operated...

Hifiman's Ananda is one of the company's most popular models. The latest iteration, the Ananda Nano offers concentrated technology at a small price. For the first time, stealth magnets and a nanometer diaphragm are used for the price of 699€! Visually, the Ananda Nano resembles the HE-1000 series with its oval shape and silver color scheme. The scope of delivery includes a soft case and a cable with a length of 3m with 3.5mm jack and a 6.35mm adapter. Too bad that no shorter cable for portable operation as well as balanced plug is included. The...

The MEST MK3 from Unique Melody is, as the name suggests, the third iteration of the MEST model. Step by step, better technologies were integrated and, according to Unique Melody, the tonality was improved more and more. Unfortunately, I myself have not heard the first and second iteration and can therefore only describe the sound of the latest model, without drawing a comparison to the older iterations. Price-wise, it also went up step by step. The MK3 costs around 2000 USD. That seems like a lot at first. But if you look at the competitors who also...

Spirit Torino is a high-end headphone manufacturer from Turin in Italy. The company is very well known for its top-of-the-line Valkyria headphones, which are considered by some audiophiles to be perhaps the best headphones in the world. Technologies, such as the arrangement of the driver in the form of a revolver course with a massive arrangement of 13 neodymium magnets with a strength of 2x13.8KG make it a uniqueness in the field of high-end headphones. Spirit Torino has been exclusively making headphones until now. Now their very first IEM is...

The Hifiman Svanar Wireless is nothing less than Hifiman's quest for the ultimate True Wireless Stereo Inear (TWS). The name Svanar, based on the Hifiman IEM Flagship, already suggests that this is an absolute top inear. Whether this is the case will be examined in the following review. The technical highlight of the Svanar Wireless is clearly the use of R2R DACs. I am not aware of any other TWS that implements an R2R DAC. To be more precise, there are two DACs, one per channel. The specially created Himalaya DAC technology from Hifiman is used...

The HE-400se is the entry-level model with planar magnetic driver from Hifiman. Back in 2012, I had an HE-400, which was an incredibly good headphone for the price at the time. At some point came the HE-400i, an improved version of the HE-400, and then the HE-400s. And now the HE-400se. Which even uses Hifiman's stealth magnets. These were first introduced with the top of the line Hifiman Susvara and then gradually used in other less expensive models. The HE-400se is even cheaper than the HE-400 was more than 10 years ago. I can already reveal that...

After I have already made very good experiences with this cable in my last review (https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/lavricables-grand-silver-iem-baltic-grey.26512/reviews#review-30893) of the Grand Line IEM, I had to try it out for my Hifiman Susvara. The Grand Line is the top cable from Lavricables. Again briefly to the cable structure. It is a 4 core pure silver cable with 6N purity, which is 99.9999% silver. The 6 stands for the number of digits. The conductor cross section is AWG 20. For my review I use the Grand Line in the version "baltic...

The M17 is the flagship DAP from FiiO. But the M17 is not just any DAP, it is a true power monster! Legendary 2x 3W@32Ohm of the currently strongest DAP on the market drive any headphones, no matter how hard they are to drive. Whether this is really so I will try at the end of the review with my Susvara and Abyss 1266 TC. It is delivered in two packages, one for the DAP including accessories and one for the docking station. The M17 comes pre-assembled with a screen protector. A replacement screen protector is included. Also a power supply for using...

The FT3 is the first open Over-Ear headphone from FiiO. The brand is known for all kinds of high-end products in the field of "portable audio", such as the M17 DAP or the FD7 IEM. When I read the first announcements of the technical details and design of the headphones, I was directly excited about the end result. The FT3 wants to mix in the class around 300 € properly and whether it creates it, that I want to illuminate in the following. The headphones including accessories are delivered in a sturdy cardboard box in which a brown leatherette...

The Grand Line IEM is the top cable from Lavricables for IEMs. This is a 4 core pure silver cable with 6N purity, which corresponds to 99.9999% silver. The 6 stands for the number of digits. The cable has a conductor cross-section of AWG 20, which is quite remarkable for such a cable. My Invictus pure silver cable is much thinner. The 64 Audio Premium silver cable that comes with the Fourte Blanc is more comparable and only slightly thinner. Lavricables also offers three other series. All pure silver cables, but with 5N purity. The conductor cross...

The DX320 MAX Ti is the new flagship from iBasso, which is limited to 888 units worldwide. Just like its little brother, the DX320, no DAC chip from AKM or ESS is used here, but from ROHM (BD34301EKV). While two of these ROHM DACs are used in the DX320, there are four in the MAX! This drives in the so-called Ultimate Mode (you can choose between the Quad and Dual operation of the DACs), the already good measured values on the tip! How the MAX sounds with it in comparison to the little brother DX320, more about that later. After opening the storage...

The DX320 is the flagship DAP from Ibasso. Unlike the usual top DAPs, no chip from AKM or ESS is installed here, but two chips from ROHM (BD34301EKV) provide for the digital-analog conversion. This chip has extremely good measuring values like e.g. a dynamic range of 130dBA! Ibasso itself presents this new DAC as „the pinnacle of audio ICs". More about how it sounds later. When I opened the extremely elegant packing a massive player from CNC milled aluminum offered itself to me! When I hold my Shanling M8 next to it, it seems almost tiny against the...

The U4s is a newcomer to 64 Audio with 4 drivers that wants to have its say in the class of IEMs around 1000 USD. This much is already revealed, that it also has features that were previously reserved for the higher-priced models. The U4s' scope of delivery corresponds to that of the higher-end models, such as the U12t. In addition to a round leather case, it includes a silver-plated 3.5mm connection cable as well as a few sets of silicone (from SpinFit, among others) and foam tips. A balanced cable would be another cherry on top in this price...