audiophiles

Sleek Audio’s Aluminium, Carbon Fibre Headphones Will Last For Years

Buy these headphones, and they’ll last your whole life. Or so Sleek Audio claims – but at $US400, you’d hope they’d last longer than your last pair of Sennheisers.

April 5, 2010

Red Sox Beats Headphones Cost As Much As A Trip To Fenway

Dr Dre and the Boston Red Sox have combined forces to produce a branded Red Sox version of those notoriously expensive Beats headphones, just in time for Opening Day. The result of this union, predictably, is also expensive.

March 12, 2010

Hifiman HM-801 Music Player Will Satisfy The Pickiest Audiophiles

The Hifiman HM-801 looks like an old portable cassette player, but apparently it might just beat out most music players in sound quality. At least that’s what CNET though when they had a listen. They even found it worth $US790.

March 1, 2010

Growin’ Up Speaker System Design Rooted In Trees

“Larry, your new speakers look great, really they do. But…something’s off. I can’t put my finger on it, but they just sound, I dunno, kind of wooden. You know?”

January 26, 2010

Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series Speakers Look Great, Sound Expensive

Just because I could never afford this high-end 800 Series Diamond speaker from Bowers & Wilkins doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy looking at it, and giggling at the phrase “diamond dome tweeter”.

January 8, 2010
Entertainment

Denon S-5BD Blu-ray Player/Receiver: A Monster In A Box

I’ll say it: the S-5BD looks ferocious. It’s a Profile 2.0 Blu-ray player and a 5.1-channel audiophile grade surround sound receiver, all packed into an oooooo shiny design.

January 6, 2010

Olive + Thiel’s $US7900 Audio Server Is The Sheeeeeeeeit

Olive and Thiel may sound like a TV pilot about a crimefighting duo starring Joey Tribbiani, but it’s not. The former do swank AV stuff like this, while the latter do expensive speakers and whatnots. Behold their bastard child.

$US229 Vacuum Tube Amplifier Wows Audiophiles

If you think all high-end products are stupid expensive or mammoth monstrosities, the MiniWatt vacuum tube integrated amplifier should change your mind.

January 1, 2010

World’s Most ‘Perfect’ Speaker Gets Even Better

Every year product life cycles in the consumer marketplace grow ever shorter. On the audio side, the latest and greatest receivers become yesterday’s news faster than you can say “HDMI 1.4“.

December 25, 2009

JVC’s Updated Audiophile Wooden Earphones

JVC has updated their original wooden headphones by slashing both price and size. The company claims the wood construction gives the earphones superior sound quality, in addition to superior style.

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