Category Reviews
Naim SUPERNAIT 2: proving that less is more
There’s setting trends, there’s following trends – and then there’s apparently flying in the face of fashion, which is usually either very brave or very dumb. I mean, look at the consumer electronics market: it’s simply stuffed with ‘me too’ products, showing a woeful lack of inspiration and a entirely risk-averse strategy. A company launches […]
Hi-res in your pocket: Fiio’s X3 portable music player
There’s a problem with locking yourself into what the computer commentators call ‘the Apple eco-system’: for all the advantages of the company’s ‘it just works’ interoperability between computers and mobile devices, when it comes to music beyond CD quality, iTunes and the various iOS devices are a bit of a dead loss. There are two […]
Review: Hands-on with Just Audio’s AHA-120 headphone amp
After my wife reviewed some of the Final Audio Design headphones recently for Hi-Fi Widow, UK distributor HiFiHeadphones was keen for me to review one of the headphone amplifiers it sells. It’s an interesting reverse, for while the Final Audio Design headphones come from Japan, and are just being introduced into the UK, HiFiHeadphones’ Robin […]
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