Dan Clark of MrSpeakers is a difficult man to get a hold of as he's constantly working. Few people in the industry spend as much time as Clark honing the bleeding edge of planar-magnetic headphone design as he does and the company always has something in the works. Whether it's a new model, or upgrades for existing customers.
I recently received my pre-order Audeze Mobius, a collection of crossfeed software such as NX Waves, Goodhertz Canopener Studio and the subject of this review: Sonarworks Reference4 software. To put it mildly it's had me thinking about the place of DSP and correction in the land of audiophiledom.
The new hand-built N8 will retail for $1,699 USD, utilizes a hybrid-design featuring a 9mm dynamic-driver to handle the notes between the lowest octaves, and eight midrange balanced-armature driver units for the mids and upper registers.
Astell & Kern are at it again, the company seems intent on rolling out new tech in 2018 at a breakneck pace and the new A&ultima SP1000M is the latest in a series of new players the company has debuted in the past couple months, this time in a smaller chassis to round out their flagship line.
Welcome to the premiere edition of the InnerFidelity Podcast featuring a brief shout out from new managing editor Rafe Arnott and then an in-depth interview by Brian Hunter with Campfire Audio CEO Ken Ball.
It seems Sony has decided to enter the über high-end headphone amp market with the $8,000 USD DMP-Z1 from their "Signature Series" and the Internet is blowing up a bit because of it.