Headphones reviews

AKG N60NC Headphones
Headphones AKG N60NC
All headphones offer a level of passive noise reduction by placing the earpeices. Greater background noise decrease is offered by some than others, and kinds that are in ear cut this more significantly by simply inserting earbuds into the ear canal to block out the interference. It is a smart technique,...
Audio-Technica ATH-A900X LTD Headphones
Headphones Audio-Technica ATH-A900X LTD
The Audio Technica in Japan features a well-deserved name when it comes to high-fidelity equipment. Their most recent ATH-A900X Ltd Edition over -ear cans are an upgrade of the closed-rear A900Xs - featuring the same 53 mm drivers but with golden lettering and scarlet housings on the outside. Like their...
Audio-Technica ATH-W1000Z Headphones
Headphones Audio-Technica ATH-W1000Z
Maybe better known in hi fi circles for the variety of turntable cartridges than its cans, Japanese brand Audio-Technica has given its extensive range a little refresh. The ATHW1000Z is the latest addition to your family and replaces the ATH-W1000X. It ushers in a GBP100 price increase and swaps a few...
AudioQuest NightHawk Headphones
Headphones AudioQuest NightHawk
I first saw this high end headphone at the Bristol Show. During the time, the NightHawk was some way off going on sale in the UK but its 'liquid wood' earcup building captured my attention. It might seem a flight of fancy as well as a substantial diversification for a brand that's famous for its interconnects,...
Focal Spirit One S Headphones
Headphones Focal Spirit One S
The Spirit has been introduced by focal One S mobile headphone into an already busy marketplace, but priced in a low GBP149 they are possibly competitive. The Heart Ones are eyecatching. Finished with brushed aluminium side bits and hinges in anthracite gray, they can be a closed-back circumaural...
Fostex TH500RP Headphones
Headphones Fostex TH500RP
Some of the very most affordable versions we've found in recent times from Fostex, the TH500RP signifies the beginning of a move towards more consumer-friendly headphones while utilising its extensive studio experience as a much respected pro-audio brand. And the TH500RP manages to seem like a studio...
Grado SR325e Headphones
Headphones Grado SR325e
Hand produced by the family-run firm in Brooklyn, Ny, the SR325e is instantly recognisable as a Grado, with all the customary chunky foam ear pads wrapped around those distinctive open- rear earcups, placing the 40mm drivers that are dynamic. Fearless branding on each earpiece plus a leather-clad headband...
Oppo PM-2 Headphones
Headphones Oppo PM-2
It appears a set of headphones can be launched by anyone: loudspeaker makers, brands best known for car companies significant valve amps and businesses you have never heard of before, have all jumped to the present boom. And at first it looked like Oppo, best known because of its high quality Bluray...
Philips Fidelio X1 Headphones
Headphones Philips Fidelio X1
Time was when Philips was among the most mighty consumer electronics firms to walk the earth's surface - or the High Street. Now obviously, in the first portion 'teenies', it's Apple. But before the morning comes the darkest hour. Philips' aura had faded in the past decade, but its products coming...
Sennheiser HD 800 S Headphones
Headphones Sennheiser HD 800 S
Among the problems of being a long-established stalwart of any industry is that you become risk averse and conservative. We don't have any insight into what occurs in the Sennheiser boardroom, needless to say, but as external observers it appears that this is what occurred to the business in the noughties....
Sony MDR-Z7 Headphones
Headphones Sony MDR-Z7
As the brand that pretty much introduced the world and personal listening using its Walkman in the late seventies, Sony has a long and revered heritage among private sound buffs. The MDR-Z7 is the flagship in its extensive Hi-Res Audio headphone variety, and has a sophisticated feel thanks to its brushed-metal...