Munich High-End is approaching and hopefully there will be plenty of people going! It's going to be a BIG one this year and they completely sold out of exhibitor space very quickly. You can see the full list of companies exhibiting here (there's a LOT!)...

(I posted this in the Aperio sponsor thread here but figured it'd be good to make an actual headphone forum thread for these two) So I heard the Bravura and Aperio at Munich and was VERY impressed. This was my first time hearing any Warwick acoustics stuff and I went into it not at all knowing...

I figured this may be something worth starting a dedicated thread for. There are all sorts of reasons as to why measurements may be unreliable, misleading, confusing, or just inconsistent. And I've made a video discussing some of these topics.

The following is a list of digital to digital converters (and some similar components like the MScaler) that I've had in and tested. These are listed in order of RMS jitter level upto 100khz, but I would encourage you to look at the actual spectrum of jitter too. The number alone can't provide...

A video version of this post is available here: Introduction MQA is a proprietary music compression solution that uses the FLAC container. It requires a license fee for manufacturers to implement it, and due to the lack of transparency from MQA, there has been relatively little conclusive...

I currently have a number of fantastic products on my desk, and given this interesting opportunity to directly compare some products that are usually not something many will have heard, and if they have, will likely have heard on different systems, I wanted to do just that. Compare in a direct...

TLDR: Pi2AES kicks some serious ass. Get a nice PSU So I've been working on my digital side of things for a little while now, and have as of late been exploring networked output options. I'd started with a raspberry pi, and after hearing the difference that made vs direct USB to my PC, but...

So, I am looking for a headphone stand that fills a couple criteria: 1) Can fit headphones that are adjusted to near max. My head size means I have to wear HD800 on max, HE1K on 2nd to max, and susvara on 2nd to max as well. This means that on many typical 'arch' headphone stands, the cables...

So I'm currently looking for a desktop amp for use specifically with iems and sensitive headphones. I've got an AHB2+Goldpoint SA2X which i'm using for anything that's moderately hard to drive. (And it works beautifully) But I'm looking for something for iems specifically. I'd like an amp...

So I currently have an ADI-2 DAC feeding a Benchmark AHB2 power amplifier. This means that thanks to the ADI-2's hardware reference level adjustment as well as its 32bit DSP volume control, I have no need for a preamp. However, I have ordered a Holo Audio May dac which will be here in a month...

So, I should shortly be receiving a Holo May dac, and i'm a bit confused about some of the things that people have said about it/the spring online. Typically, I'd just connect my DAC to my PC via a decent USB cable (Just a Supra one, not super cheap, but nothing snakeoil) A lot of people have...

I'm currently looking for an R2R dac to pair with my benchmark AHB2 and hifiman susvaras. Currently I'm looking at the holo spring 2 (Wildism extreme edition), Holo may, and denafrips terminator. I know that its going to be pretty hard to go "wrong" with any of these, but am curious if anyone...

I am currently looking at getting a Holo Spring 2 DAC, and am wanting to know if spending the additional cost to upgrade to the KTE / Wildism L3 version is worth it over the standard L1. Has anyone had the opportunity to compare any of the different levels of this dac? If so, what were your...

So I have an AHB2 on the way, and am on the hunt for a pair of susvaras (Currently using Arya/HD800S). I've seen this talked about in places https://store.hifiman.com/index.php/he-adapter.html My question is: Is this really needed? I have a custom banana plug to XLR female cable on the way too...