Burson Super Charger 3A - Improving Burson Sound by Power Supply Burson Super Charger 3A is a high-end power supply for Burson products, priced at 284 USD, made to pair with a few of their products. I will be comparing it with the default charger that came with Burson Funk (550 USD). Introduction Burson likes to optimize their products, and they are one of the very few companies out there that promotes selling, selling and designing their amplifiers and DACs with interchangeable OP-AMPs, so you can always tweak and optimize their sound...

Tronsmart Force 2 - Portable Troublemaker Force 2 is a portable Bluetooth speaker with a price tag of just 50 USD, but promises for a clean and powerful sound, with a big stage and a deep bass. Since I have not reviewed anything that comes close to its price yet, I am going to focus on describing Force 2 and its overall sound, plus whether it is easy and convenient to use. Introduction Tronsmart is that one Chinese company that does their best to overtake the world of entry-level, and almost all their products are entry-level products with...

Sendy Audio Apollo Headphones - Godlike Delight Sendy Audio Apollo is a 500 USD headphone based on the QUAD-Former technology, basically a Planar magnetic driver with double magnets + double sided coils and double sides of coils. This means that it gets to be compared with Adam Audio Studio PRO SP-5 Headphones (550 USD), iBasso SR-2 Open Back Headphones (500 USD), Sennheiser HD660S (500 USD), Dan Clark Aeon Flow RT (500 USD) and Avantone Pro Planar Headphones (450 USD) Introduction Sendy Audio is a company that's the high-end sister of...

iBasso DC05 DAC/AMP Dongle - Power For Androids iBasso comes back to the entry-level to help music lovers enjoy their passion, DC05 being a 69 USD Dongle DAC/AMP with a Dual ES9219C DAC, and capable of decoding MQA up to 16X, and 140mW output power. I will also be comparing DC05 to Spectra X2 from Maktar (200 USD), Soundmagic A30 (50 USD), and Audirect Beam 2 (100 USD). Introduction iBasso has been creating and designing DAPs, IEMs, Headphones and Dongle DACs for over 10 years now, and they've been the company to offer best service and...

FiiO FD3 IEMs - Budget Sparks Priced at 109 USD, FiiO FD3 is a universal IEM with a large 12mm single DLC dynamic driver and a semi open design. It will be compared to iBasso iT01X (120 USD), Tin Audio T5 (130 USD), IKKO OH1 Meteor (140 USD). Introduction After the commercial success they had with FD5, FiiO decided to try and bring some of that magic to those who are more budget oriented, and this is how FD3 took place. FiiO is a high-end company designing products in China, and their offer is wide, ranging from Bluetooth receivers, DAPs...

HIFIMAN Ananda Headphones - Sweet Mids, Huge Stage HIFIMAN Ananda is the headphone I took the most photos of for the past 3 months, and it is a high-end planar magnetic design priced at 1000 USD, sometimes going on sale for 700 USD. They have been the culmination of price / performance ratio for HIFIMAN, and they will be compared to other high-end headphones, including Crosszone CZ-10 Dynamic Headphones (900 USD), LSA HP-1 (1400 USD), Sivga Peacock Planar Magnetic Headphones (1500 USD), HIFIMAN Arya Stealth (1600 USD), and Audeze LCD-XC 2021 (1800...

TRN VX PRO Chifi IEMs - Brightest Shape Of Metal TRN VX PRO is a 9 Driver Entry-level IEM priced at 88 USD. They made a hybrid design, and gave VX PRO one dynamic driver, and 8 Balanced Armatures. It will be compared with Tin Hifi T3 Plus (70 USD), HIDIZS MS2 Rainbow (90 USD), and CCA CKX (70 USD). Introduction TRN Audio or TRN Hifi is a really interesting company from China, who created the first IEM that electrocuted me in the ears, at a literal level. They evolved a ton since then, and their current offer includes many popular entry-level...

BLON BL-B60 Dynamic Headphones - Low Notes Jumping BLON BL-B60 or WGZBLON B60 is the latest headphone from BLON priced at 155 USD. The company is mainly known for making Chifi IEMS, selling through Linsoul and other ChiFi gateway shops. We have interesting features, like a large 50mm Dynamic Driver, along with a nice default cable. Given the pocket-friendly price, we will mainly be comparing B60 to other affordable headphones like Sivga SV021 (150 USD), AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio Headphones (250 USD), and Master & Dynamic MH40 Wireless (250 USD)...

Dunu Falcon PRO - Prime Performer, Music Reformer It isn't every day that I get to review something truly impressive, and Dunu has always delivered before, at least sonically. Today we will study how the 220 USD Falcon Pro IEMs sound like, and whether the comfort of the new Dunu IEMs lives up to their sonic name. Given the affordable price point, but the popular nature of Falcon Pro, I have chosen a few formidable competitors for it, including 7Hz timeless (220 USD), FiiO FH5S (280 USD), MAS X5i (300 USD), and Kinera Freya (250 USD)...

GravaStar Sirius Pro / Pro+ TWS IEMS - Gaming Edge Performance Gravastar Sirius Pro+ is a TWS IEM made for gamers, priced at 150 USD. They have 5 drivers inside, one large 7.2mm dynamic driver, and 4 Knowles Balanced Armatures, to power the Pro+, along with dynamic lights and Ultra Low Latency. Given the price point of the Sirius Pro+, I will be comparing it to NUARL N10 Plus (165 USD), 1More ANC TWS EHD9001TA (200 USD), and Fostex TM-2, which is priced at 300 USD, but can often be found around 200 USD. Introduction Gravastar is a company...

HIDIZS DH80 DAC / AMP - Supporting AP80 Sound HIDIZS DH80 is a Dac Amp priced at 139 USD, made as a cradle for their AP80 DAC, but which can work standalone as well. It has a good amount of output power, an ESS 9281C PRO DAC, and supports MQA as well. Given the design, I will focus on it and what it does best, rather than reviewing it in comparison with other dac amp dongles, which won't fit quite as well with HIDIZS AP80 PRO. Introduction HIDIZS is a really nice company with a ton of products, most in the entry level and lower midrange...

Cocktail Audio N25 Streamer - Elegance & Usability Connected Coming straight out of the technologized South Korea, N25 is a flagship streamer with DAC functions, and priced at 1400 USD. For this price, it features a Streaming function, network player, Roon point, and MQA decoding, along with a DAC function, so you can connect it straight to an external Amplifier. It will be compared to other high-end and flagship DACs / Streamers, including Magna Hifi Mano Ultra MK2 (1200 USD), Cyrus One Cast (2000 USD), and Soundaware A1X PRO (700 USD). Given...

OneOdio Monitor 60 - Huge Cans For My Soul OneOdio Monitor 60 is a high-quality monitoring headphone priced at about 80 USD at the moment of writing this review, made for music producers, DJs and artists on a budget. It features a 50mm full-sized dynamic driver, and it will be compared to Sivga SV021 (150 USD), Dekoni Blue Planar Magnetic Headphones (250 USD), and Master & Dynamic MH40 Wireless (250 USD). I simply have not listened to many other headphones priced so low, so it will be hard to keep the price out of the equation, but let's have a...

HIFI Walker H2 Music Player - Retro Chinese DAP Today's review will focus on the 125 USD HIFI Walker H2, a DAP with a navigation wheel, Hi-Res play abilities, and support for up to 256GB microSD cards. It will be compared with other entry-level DAPs like Shanling M3X (340 USD), Hiby R2 (100 USD), Surfans F20 (125 USD), and Hiby R3 PRO (200 USD). Introduction HIFI Walker is one of those companies that sold like hot cakes on Amazon, but no one really got to formally review and compare against other DAPs. Their highlight is the really good...

Crosszone CZ-8A Hifi Headphones - Speaker Sound, Closed Back Crosszone CZ-8A is the latest headphone made by Crosszone, with 3 drivers, all of them dynamic, and in multiple sizes and are priced roughly 1700 USD, and mostly available on the Japanese and Asian markets. Those are some high-end over-the-ear flagship headphones with ingenious design, so they will be compared to other flagships, like Kennerton Thror (3000 USD), Rosson RAD-0 (2200 USD), Spirit Torino SuperLeggera (2000 USD), Crosszone CZ-1 (2000 USD), HIFIMAN Arya Stealth (1600 USD), and...

FiiO BTR5 2021 - MQA Freedom At The End The title says it all, and we're at the end of 2021, but the latest version of BTR5 has the 2021 monicker, support for MQA, and it is priced at 130 USD, which is a bit more than the 110 / 120 USD that the original costed at launch, but less than the original costs right now on Amazon, which is 170 USD. At any rate, we will treat the 2021 variant as a price increase, and it will be compared to ES100 MK2 (90 USD), BTR3K (60 USD), BTR5 (110 USD), and UTWS3 (80 USD). Introduction FiiO is a complicated...

iBasso DX240 - Sing Me The Sweetest Melody We're reviewing the new iBasso DX240 today, a portable music player or Digital Audio Player (DAP), priced at 950 USD, and a iBasso is back on top, and wants to make sure that you can use the AMP modules ecosystem from their DX220, so the new one is compatible with all AMP modules released so far, from AMP 1 all the way to AMP 8, so it will be compared in depth, and throughout the entire review with the original DX220, but also to other DAPs like FiiO M11 PRO (650 USD), Lotoo PAW 6000 (1200 USD), Astell &...

Tin T3 Plus IEMs - Chifi's Getting Hotter Tin T3 Plus is a natural upgrade to Tin HIFI's Line of IEMs, and it now comes with an excellent aesthetic, but also the same pocket-friendly price point of 70 USD all of the TinHIFI's IEMs have been hovering around since they've been launched. It will be compared to SoundMagic ST80 (56 USD), KBEar Robin (55 USD), and Master & Dynamic ME05 IEMs (90 USD). Introduction Tin Hifi is a company from China that's usually carried and sold by third party shops, like Linsoul, the ones who provided the sample...

Maktar Spectra X2 - Power For Apples Maktar Spectra x2 is a DAC/AMP made for smartphones, and iPhones (the model we're reviewing today), and it features a price tag of 200 USD, placing it above, or at least in line with iFi Hip-DAC2 (150 USD), Earmen Sparrow (200 USD), and Lotoo Paw S1 (170 USD), all of which will be the competitors and comparisons for today's review on X2 and its usage. Introduction Maktar is the new name for the old company NextDrive, a company that produced the Spectra X, a DAC / AMP / Dongle that has the same shape as...

Cyrus One Cast Smart DAC / Integrated Amplifier - English Media Flagship We're finally having a look at a masterpiece from a British company, and namely One Cast from Cyrus is the star of today's review. Priced at 2000 USD, One Cast is a full sized entertainment center, and it features a high-end DAC, a Class AB Headphone Amplifier, a Class D Stereo Amplifier, streaming abilities, Bluetooth, Wifi, and compatibility with most current streaming services out there, including a high-end MM Phono Stage for Turntables, making it the best, most complete...