The truly excellent Audéo PFE earphone from Phonak have been getting some great reviews since it’s launch.  The PFE (Perfect Fit Earphone) is a very well balanced sounding in-ear monitor earphone with excellent levels of comfort and an easy fit, even for smaller ears.  Supplied with user changeable filters the bass and treble levels can easily be configured to the listeners preference. Designed by Swiss hearing device manufacturer Phonak, the Audéo PFE is a lightweight earphone that fit... Read Full Story

Grado GR8 Earphone Gets UK Launch Grado are well known for their mid to high end Hi-Fi headphones, with the top of the range Grado GS1000i being the benchmark that other high end headphones are measured against.  This last month has seen the surprise release of the first Grado in-ear earphone (In Ear Monitor or IEM) in the USA, with a UK launch set for any time now. The new Grado IEM has been named the GR8 (or GREAT, in case you hadn’t noticed).  You’ve got to love American marke... Read Full Story

Beyerdynamic High End Gaming Headphones Beyerdynamic have a long heritage of producing very high quality headphones for home Hi-Fi, professional use (studio and live instrument monitoring) and aviation use.  Now Beyerdynamic have just turned their hand to developing a range of high quality gaming headsets and it looks like they are on to a winner! As can be expected from Beyerdynamic their gaming headphone range offers no compromises with build  (still hand built in Germany) and sound quality... Read Full Story

The Klipsch iGroove SXT range of iPod speaker docks has established themselves as some of the best iPod speakers available, even rivalling the market leading Bose SoundDock as the reference for high quality iPod docks. Recently improved the iGroove HG and iGroove SXT MFI now includes full iPhone compatibility, with 5V USB charging.  The older SXT models also worked with the iPhone and Touch, but were not able to charge these new Apple offerings. Below is a selection of Klipsch iGroove SXT rev... Read Full Story

The Audioengine A5 speakers have quickly become recognised as high quality speakers suitable for a variety of applications, including computer speakers or even as part of a home audio system. We’ve collected together reviews of the Audioengine A5 so that you don’t have to spend time Googling. Audioengine A5 Speakers Review at Stuff Magazine - HOT BUY Summary: Simple, ear-pleasing quality for your digital music collection. Pros: Well built. Nice sound. Easy set-up with your MP3 ... Read Full Story

Portable iPod Speakers for Travel If you’re going on holiday and want to take your tunes with you to share with friends then a portable iPod speaker is just what you need.  Portable battery powered speakers have improved dramatically over the last few years and there is now a good selection of portable speakers to choose from. Below are a couple of portable speakers well worth checking out. Altec Lansing 237 Orbit M Portable Speaker The 237 Orbit M speaker is a great sounding speaker c... Read Full Story

SoundMAGIC PL30 Review The SoundMAGIC PL30 is an IEM (In Ear Monitor) style earphone with an over ear cable fit system and innovative bass control switch.  The PL30 is priced to compete directly with earphones like the Sennheiser CX300-II, Denon AH-C351 and Ultimate Ears Metro.fi 220. SoundMAGIC earphones are a relatively new addition to the line-up at HiFi Headphones.  We originally took on the brand after trying out some samples sent directly from SoundMAGIC.  Our initial sceptisism about t... Read Full Story

SoundMAGIC PL50 SoundMAGIC have released the PL50 IEM earphone in Asia this week.  The PL50 is an in-ear sound isolating design and looks like it will be competing with higher end IEMs, such as the Shure and Ultimate Ears range. This is SoundMAGIC’s first step into a balanced armature technology earphone and we’re really keen to give a proper listen.  We are expecting stock here in the UK within the next couple of weeks. SoundMAGIC has taken the earphone World by surprise over th... Read Full Story

Home Listening Hi-Fi Headphone Mini Review We were recently asked to review a selection of headphones suitable for home Hi-Fi listening by Shortlist (a popular mens lifestyle magazine). Below is the selection of headphones we offered with the review we gave: High End Headphones Grado SR325is Review Open back on-ear headphones. Retro design.  Excellent sound with brilliant detail and clarity.  SR325is has won many awards.  Very efficient headphone voice coils (low impedance) means it can be d... Read Full Story

WeSC Pickup & Maraca - New Models WeSC have just launched some new models in time for the summer holiday season.  The new headphone models are the WeSC Pickup and the WeSC Maraca. The WeSC Maraca headphone is has a distincly retro design, not that far away from the highly sought after Alp Horn, but is a much smaller headphone and has a headband similar to the Bongo and Oboe models WeSC Pick-up Headphones The WeSC Pickup headphone is the coolest looking (in our opinion) of the new models,... Read Full Story