Category: News

3 Comments We’re always excited to get new headphones in to review and listen for ourselves. This week we have put the new Audio Technica ATH-MSR7 through our testing process. We must say that the new Audio Technica delivers very accurate and analytical sound.  These would be a great reference headphone for mixing/mastering in the […]

1 Comment The original Sennheiser HD800 dynamic headphones released back in 2009 were widely considered the world’s best headphones by many audiophiles. Since its release, numerous manufacturers have tried to knock the HD800 down from its bejeweled throne to claim the highly contentious title of “World’s Best Headphones.” Nowadays, music lovers have plenty of ‘world’s best’ options to […]

4 Comments The Sennheiser HD800S is the recently ‘new & improved’ version of the original HD800, a sound revelation which revolutionized headphone audio when it was released back in early 2009. Now over six years later comes the updated HD 800S touting improvements in bass response, along with a hip black color scheme and an […]

‘Electrostatic Valhalla In Your Ears’ The review team here at headphone.com has seen and heard a lot of great headphones in our 25 years in business. So it takes a bit of something extra to galvanize us wholeheartedly on a product. Although its not completely perfect and rather painfully pricey, we all agree the Shure […]

The new top-of-the-line Focal Utopia headphone is already being described by early reviewers as “The World’s Best Headphones.”  Boy, we’ve heard that one before. But if anyone can do it, Focal undoubtedly has the design chops and engineering acumen to be able to really pull it off. Please look for our no-holds-barred headphone.com review of […]

CHORD ELECTRONICS MOJO AMP/DAC – The Traveling Digital Audiophile’s Full Monty   We’ll admit to suffering tiny pangs of jealousy whenever a really cool new headphone amp like the Chord Mojo saunters its way across our review desk. After all, we invented the first portable USB amp/DAC way back in the day (look here for […]

The recent Apple iPhone 7 and the Moto Z Droid smartphones have removed the headphone jack from their devices. Other manufacturers are likely to follow given the industry gold rush to make ever-slimmer phones impermeable by moisture and dust. The skinny Moto Z measures just over 5 mm thick, so shoehorning a 3.5 mm headphone […]

‘The New HiFIMAN HE 1000 V2 Just Arrived. Hellooo, Audiophile Headphone Bliss’ Our headphone.com team has always thought pretty highly of the HiFiMAN headphone enterprise. We were one of the first retailers to jump aboard Dr. Fang Bian’s speeding planar magnetic headphone train back in the mid-2000s with superb high-end audiophile cans like the now-historical […]

1 Comment Our Long National Wait Is Over! (no, not the election) We are overjoyed to announce the new HeadRoom Audio Standard Amp started shipping Monday October 31, 2016 to our Pre-Order customers. Thank you from the bottom of of our HeadRoom Audio hearts for your amazing support. The next production batch of our HeadRoom […]

We tend to get a little over-excited when new high end headphones get released. We always wonder how much better they will be than previous models and how much deeper we’ll get to dive inside our favorite music. We’re sort of like little kids on a perpetual wait for a never-ending Christmas Day of headphones. […]