I was one of the lucky ones: with no more pomp than an email, HiFiman hooked me up with a box loaners, two of which have blown quite through three pair of my sox, one which left me fuming, and another about which I oscillate between cynicism and joy. In no particular order, that lot is: Susvara, RE2000, RE800, and the Megamini DAP.
Read moreohmage: HiFiman RE800
It's been a long while, but ohmage is back, though with some acrobatics, and without stepping on Headfonia's toes. Today’s ohmage comes straight from a special HiFiman loan, and one which is fuller of goodies than ever I could have hoped. The RE800 is my favourite of what fit in the box, despite Susvara also blowing my brain. It’s small, bright, and where it counts, powerful. It’s got many bugger points, some of which we will get to.
Read moreHiFiman selling its customers a bridge
The incomparably charitable HiFiman team are happy to let you, their customer, bear the burden of designing, tooling, and footing all R&D bills for their next amp module. In return for giving away the know-how potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can have one of their spiffy headphones! If your blood, sweat, and tears win!
1st 1 HE560
2nd 2 RE600
3rd 3 RE400
Appetite whetted? Head to Head-fi's front page! Or this thread! Then shoot them a PM about a bridge; they've got one going for real fucking cheap.
NOTE: the post has been removed from Headfi's front page.
Headfonics: HiFiman HM901 review
The much-delayed, and rather impressive HiFiman HM901 receives good coverage over at Headfonics.
“Perhaps the biggest surprise for me was the HE6 and the HM-901. I am usually quite skeptical when it comes to anything other than Class A min of 5 watts per channel and preferably balanced and true enough the HM-901 doesn’t drive as authoratively as the Mjolnir or the EF6 but what it did seem to manage to do was to give me a competent level of volume control between 7 and 8 without clipping or sounding overly thin or tinny and definitely not sharp. Outside of the DX100 I think on experience this is probably the only DAP I could recommend at this price point to pair with the HE6 and even then I much prefer the more natural tonality the HM-901 with the balanced amp card over the DX100.”
While not boasting the same level of build and attention to detail as its Astell&Kern counterparts, the HM901 looks to be a solid contender for most-reaching all-in-one digital audio player.
Read the full review here.
Headfi: HiFiman giveaway
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