Okay this review keeps getting delayed and I apologize. I often type my reviews as I listen to whatever device is under review. This usually works for me but I have a problem with the TGD (the Korean brand name for what we know as T-Peos) Rasiel "Killing Sound" earphones. I like the sound so much that I get lost in the music and I stop typing. This is not a good thing when you're offering a review.   So much for being objective. I like these inexpensive, pretty, comfortable earphones with their "vacuum tube" sound.   BTW as part of the normal...

I have never been so ready to write a review in such a short time. It's less than 24 hours since the Aune X1S was delivered and I've spent several hours listening and comparing. I will spoil the surprise by saying I absolutely love the X1S and I bought my own already. It's not perfect and there is an issue (see below) but it compares very favourably to my much more expensive ($1200 CDN) Fostex HP8A.   My last review of the Aune B1 amp went so well, especially when I used it to drive my Audeze LCD-X headphones that I immediately bought that unit and...

Let's ruin the surprise:   I'm buying an Aune B1 the moment the nice folks at Aune Audio show up at my door demanding their demo unit back. I can't stop playing it and there's one huge reason: The Aune B1, against all expectations, makes my Audeze LCD-X headphones sound better...way better...when I'm using my Astell and Kern AK-100 Mark II DAP and it rivals the sound from my much more expensive Fostex HP-A8C DAC/amp streaming Tidal or accessing ITunes.   I'm not kidding. I had just started using the touring B1 and the LCD-Xs by playing a Norah...

Disclaimer   I see the other reviewers make mention that they received the Cayin N6 as provided by the nice people at CTC Audio North America with whom I've bought stuff and received great service. They only ask for my honest opinion and I've got a long history as a professional journalist, newspaper and magazine editor so I'm inclined to speak my mind. This makes this particular review more difficult than most because  there's aspects of the Cayin 6 I didn't like but lots I did.   About me   I'm 66, retired and over the last five years or so...

I've never put in-ears with different drivers in my ears before so I had no idea of what to expect when it came to the T-Peos Altone 350 Hybrid 3 driver IEM.    So thanks to CTC Audio who put the 350s out on tour I plugged them into a Cayin 6 which is also on tour and let fly. My first impression is somebody had plugged a cable directly into the bass guitar. Listening to Bob Marley's Legend was an overwhelming experience. There was a whole lotta music coming into my head and it was tough to sort out. The bass was distinctly present as were the mids...

I might give up doing reviews. I keep running into things that change for no good reason. It makes it hard to render a consistent and informed opinion. I end up questioning my own abilities to hear anything let alone report it accurately.   And so we come to the OPPO PM-3 which were sent to me as part of the PM-3 tour now underway.   I had just returned from four days at the Dayton Hamvention (with 22,000 of my closest Ham Radio friends) to find the OPPO PM-3s waiting for me. I quickly plugged my Cozoy Astrapi DAC into my IPhone and thought the...

Fiio 3X Second Generation Review   Lots of other reviewers have talked about the technical aspects of the Fiio X3 Second Generation so I am going to limit my review to what I heard and felt. This is a subjective review.   In Toastmasters, where I’ve been a member for over 20 years, we have a saying about doing evaluations. It goes like this: Evaluate the speech you heard and not the one you would have liked to have heard.   So I’m applying the same principle to my review of the Fiio X3 Second Generation (3X) which I want to thank Joe Bloggs, a...