HTC just announced their new A9, and claim that it will be an audiophile-level audio player. - they will resample 16bit to 24 bit (which I think is rather useless; not sure if native 24 bit 192KHz  is also supported) and include dolby surround support which is cool for films mainly I guess...

Podcasts are rapidly invading my private life. Song exploder is one of the greatest ones I have found so far because it combines podcasts with my love for music. Basically an artist - admittedly, usually a north-american artists - basically tells the story of how a song came together. The show...

I couldn't add this as a review to a product since Head-Fi does not know the product; maybe a moderator could fix that? Anyhow, I will give a review of the Crescendo DS11 in-ear monitors. I will give a short summary first for all the lazy people and those of us who have something better to do...

My custom moulded hearing protection arrived; the cool thing is that the filters pop out so that they can be used as custom tips for the Crescendo DS11 which is basically the same thing as the ACS T15. Now the ACS T15 currently sells for €50 more, so that already sounds like a very good deal...

I am getting custom made hearing protection since my insurance allows me to have them once for free :-) The company making the protection is called tympro music and since my IEMs are starting to give, I thought it might be worthwhile to check if I could use the same mould for  custom IEMs...