Musical Musings

Somewhere around 2012, following the departure from longtime OEM Foster, Denon found itself in the tricky position of having to rebuild its headphone line from the ashes of its well-received audiophile headphones, the D2000, D5000 and D7000. This was, and still is, also a time in which the market of …

When the Playstation 4 launched, its DualShock 4 controller featuring a built in 3.5mm headset jack, it ushered in a new era for users of high end headphones, able to simply plug in any set of headphones they chose and receive stereo audio directly from the controller without having to …

First, I’d like to thank the folks at Narmoo for providing a sample of their R1M earphones for review. In recent years, the IEM market has sort of exploded, seeing a number of established players making a go of things and a number of impressive upstarts, often aiming for the …

First, I’d like to thank Peter Hoagland and the folks at HiFiMan for providing a sample of the HM-700 for review. Anyone who knows HiFiMan knows they’re no stranger to portable audio players. They’re well known for their high end and very expensive HM-801, HM-601 and most recently, their HM-901 …

First, I’d like to thank the folks at Audio-Technica for providing samples of the Sonic Fuel earphones for review. There’s a reason music montages popularized by films like those in the Rocky franchise have been so popular. Music gets us going. The right music keeps us motivated to push ourselves …