Falcon Pro are Dunu’s entry level model on their Eclipse lineup – the one featuring Zen / Zen Pro and Luna on its higher tiers. Featuring a single dynamic driver and a $219,99 price point Falcon Pro compete on a quite interesting market segment, populated – as usual – by a lot of underwhelming (or…
iFi IEMatch
iFi IEMatch is one of those devices which application is not immediately obvious to the layman – and even to some amateur audiophiles, including myself of course! Once I “got” its purpose though I found it so usefeul, and so effective, that it became a fundamental part of my audio toolbox. Indeed I even own…
iFi hip-dac2 (and hip-dac)
iFi Audio recently sent me an hip-dac2 for review and I’ve been auditioning it for a while with great pleasure. The new version of iFi’s recently discontinued hip-dac, amongst the few low cost mobile dac-amps featured of Audioreviews’ Wall of Excellence, is marketed at a very similar price (€ 189,00) compared to its precedessor. At…
7HZ Timeless
Coblogger Kazi forwarded this pair of 7Hz Timeless to me for assessment and I spent some time listening and playing with them. As many already know 7Hz Timeless are based on a single quite sizeable (14.2mm) planar driver, which of course already sets the expectations in a sense. They come with a not totally insignificant…
Tanchjim Tanya
As some of my “twentyfive readers” might remember I’m very fond of my Tanchjim Oxygen, and I also found Tanchjim Darling seriously good too. So when the other month Tanchjim released Tanya as their first budget model I looked at the news with a sense of oblique smiling condescendence, and a sigh: it was quite…
final Sonorous Earpads
Final Sonorous Earpads are the original final audio earpads for their Sonorous headphone series. They available in 7 variations, and I tested 4 of them on my Sonorous-II and Sonorous-III models. Final Sonorous-II and Sonorous-III are in my opinion the absolute best closed back headphones you can buy for less than 500$ (either costing much…
K’s Earphone K300
After having met a lot of satisfaction on another K’s Earphone bud (Bell-LBs – follow the link to read my analysis) I decided to renew my trust in this manufacturer by purchasing their K300 model, which promises a quite different tuning and presentation, and still costs a very affordable € 29,00. At-a-glance Card PROs CONs…
Rose Mojito
The first model to appear in Rose Technics’ earbuds family back in 2016, Rose Mojito stay as an absolute gem in their category. Subsequently followed by other models named Masya and Maria, all of these including the original Mojito are now discountinued to leave the field to the latest iteration called Maria II, which is…
K’s Bell LBs – Neutral reference
The earbuds market is so flooded with worthless products all costing like one or two french fries portions, and I got so little time to waste that identifying key reference products on this category is not a trivial task for me. Here’s my analysis of K’s Earphone “Bell-LBs” model, which I recently personally purchased for…
Smabat Proto 1.0 – work in progress?
As a kid I certainly was fond of Lego blocks. Now as an old grumpy bear I’m much less into spending time building my own stuff, I prefer to pay for a professionally refined, ready to enjoy product or service. Yet, quite some time has passed from the former phase to the current one (more…