Dope Audio is a small IEM making startup from Saint Petersburg, Russia. They've decided to do an unusual thing: create a planar magnetic IEMs, utilizing the benefits of this technology to the maximum. And so appeared Pure, model with close to perfect step response, low distortion and close to...

I have an honor to introduce new Flux Lab creation to Head-Fi audience. It's Atlas — DAC, headphones amplifier, preamplifier and player. Official site: http://fluxlab-acoustics.com/fluxlab-catalog/atlas/ Flux Atlas is the outcome of 10 years of experience designing High-End audio equipment and...

Company Simgot, known for their EN700 (EN700Bass and EN700Pro) IEMs recently introduced 3 new models EM1 – single dynamic driver EM3 — 1 dd + 2 ba ($288) EM5 — 1 dd + 4 ba ($500) All models have really good design, package and accessories set. All features customly-tuned sound signature...

I'm not sure why there is not dedicated thread for Earphone (or I can't find it via search), but I think they deserve one. Many Head-Fiers know excellent Vibro Labs models: ARIA, MAYA and SERA — they all offered excellent price/quality ratio. After some pause, Vibro Labs decided to drop all...

I've recently found this really interesting company from Switzerland: https://www.aks-audio.com They're mainly making big tube amps for speakers, but they have two interesting projects for Head-Fi enthusiasts. Desktop DAC/amp combo built with AD1851 and portable DAC/amp using classical Philips...

I'm not sure why Ostry's IEMs remain almost unknown on Head-Fi, but on Russian and Ukrainian market Ostry KC06A became a real huge hit. They offered indeed good design and pretty balanced sound for that money. Now Ostry are back with higher end KC09 model, it's priced about $200, but it looks...

I don't know about others, but I'm a big fan of cases. I like this perfect feel of real leather. I'm a fan of stitches, flips and so on. So, I've decided to share a link to a good ETSY shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/VALENTINUM I've got few cases from them, and they all are really beautiful...

Hello, today I'd like to tell about my friends and pioneers of hi-end IEM on the territory of exUSSR, Ambient Acoustics Laboratory from Kiev, Ukraine. It was founded in 2008, and since then developing and researching lots of unusual options in the field of hi-end IEMs. My first acquaintance...

Preface. On russian forum I've met excellent DIY maker with nickname Snorry. He makes really excellent headphones, using old soviet TDS-7 and TDS-15 as a source of drivers, but also he is a big fan of headphones modding. He's approach based on objective measurements, not only subjective...

Russian company MyST isnt very well-known worldwide, but they made some really interesting products that really worth your attention. Here, on Head-Fi there is a tread, about their portable DAC/amp built on multibit AD1688 chip PortaDAC OCUB, also sold now in Europe under Tento trademark...

Hello, Guys from Coppertino released today totally new vesion of their player Vox (it's based on code of classic Vox, but have tons of updates). It support almost all formats and playlists (cue also) Can work with DACs in hog mode and automatically adjust sample rate Understand iTunes...

Hello, I'm pretty sure this question raised before many times, but I'm lost in tons of messages, so ask again. 1. What's the difference between 880 and 990 in terms of sound (or just point me, where it's described) 2. Both 990 and 880 have different models. E.g. Beyerdynamic DT 990 PRO -...