With the i5, Fosi Audio is entering the planar magnetostat segment for the first time, targeting discerning listeners who are looking for high impulse fidelity and detailed reproduction at a moderate price. To date, Fosi Audio has primarily attracted attention with affordable, technically clean headphone amplifiers and compact DAC solutions in the [...]
Before the curtain falls this afternoon at around 1 p.m. on a product launch that has so far been kept top secret, this news item provides a fitting prelude – a journalistic warm-up that shortens the waiting time, lifts the spirits and draws attention to the absurdities of a policy whose consequences can be measured not in percentage points [...]
Welcome to the world of real sound – without hocus-pocus, without acoustic fortune-telling. The Fosi Audio K7 is made for a very special species: the audiophile gamer. Someone who doesn’t value artificial 3D sound reinforcement and doesn’t believe that they can hear their opponent before their mother has even reached puberty [...]
Powercolor has been offering the Alphyn AH10 gaming headset, another item from its peripherals portfolio, since 4 p.m. yesterday, which is not a bad idea per se. It is only logical that manufacturers like Powercolor are trying to become a full-range gaming supplier and take advantage of the affinity of graphics card buyers for other products [...]
The Corsair Virtuoso Max tested today is a wireless gaming headset equipped with active noise cancellation (ANC) and Dolby Atmos. It offers simultaneous use of 2.4 GHz radio and Bluetooth, which enables flexible connection to different devices. The battery life is up to 60 hours, with a quick-charge function providing six hours of playtime after [...]
If you can pair excellent headphones with a good microphone without creating a fixed headset, thus remaining flexible in use and still easily outperforming most gaming headsets in terms of sound even without software ballast, then the manufacturer has done everything right. Meze Audio pairs the popular Meze 99 Classics from 2015 with a really good [...]
With the HECATE brand and the GX05, Edifier is once again trying its hand at gaming accessories and without wanting to spoil too much: It succeeds with an acceptable result, otherwise I hadn’t written anything either and sent the parts back. Sometimes you have to take time out of your private life to play around with gadgets that you come [...]
Yesterday I already documented in great detail and above all in practical terms the negative impact that ground loops can have in the PC and what this means for the individual ground paths. If you haven’t read this article yet, you should perhaps catch up on it quickly for a better understanding, because it explains a lot of things that [...]
With the FiiO EM5, I am testing earbuds today that are a little out of the ordinary. My thanks first go to the community for sending me the test sample, because the FiiO EM5 headphones are a very exciting product for audiophiles and music lovers who are looking for an exceptional listening experience. But before we dedicate ourselves to testing [...]
Today I’m going to introduce you to an equalizer software that no PC should be without if you seriously want to enjoy music on your PC or play games in style. Forget all the sliders on Realtek or Nahimic drivers or the software that often comes with gaming headsets. With 5 to 7 controls, fixed frequency settings and opaque filters of the [...]
Is that really almost 10 years ago? One is really amazed again and again how quickly time passes. And has the quality changed in the meantime? The participants of the then trötenwanderung, in which most headsets got under the wheels acoustically, were long ago disposed of and scrapped by the customers defectively and new generations followed with [...]
We have already tested several inexpensive in-ears from the Chinese manufacturer SoundPeats, and so far they have all scored with a decent price-performance ratio and rich bass. New models are tirelessly introduced to the market and with the Engine 4, enough new features have been added that I dared to take another look. To the manufacturer itself [...]
Product copying of major brand audio equipment in China is now a sad reflection of global challenges. In recent years, the copying and replication of major brand audio equipment by Chinese manufacturers has attracted worldwide attention and also a great deal of anger. This practice, also known as “cloning,” has drawn both highly [...]
What goes around comes around, and I was already a bit torn during the test 5 months ago, so I decided not to judge the Creative Sound Blaster X5 on my first impressions, but to run it in parallel with my HIFIMAN EF 400 for a longer time with various headphones alternately. In principle, not much has changed in the acoustically oriented judgment [...]
When I was handed a pair of Chinese true wireless in-ear headphones for under 50€ last year, I was more than skeptical. However, it quickly became apparent that the SoundPeats brand is very much a serious competitor. Just like last year’s two models, the Life Classic, which is even more affordable, also delivers an extremely impressive low [...]
When I tested the CORSAIR HS65 Surround last year, I was torn. On the one hand, it really didn’t do anything wrong in terms of workmanship, but on the other hand, I found the sound and features a bit sobering for the called price. You can read why I came to a similar conclusion about the wireless version of the HS65 in the review. With the [...]
The Sendy Audio Aiva has me touched (and not just because it’s a magnetostat), and has made me wonder a bit both beforehand and afterward. But more about that in a moment, because I have to elaborate a bit more. However, why I’m testing a pair of headphones for 649 Euros today is quickly explained: I’m currently testing an [...]
You probably remember my Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro headset, which simply destroyed itself in storage completely without use and which I had as article published last week. Being a sustainable person, I fixed the part today at my expense after having to wait a few days for the parts. The test will have to prove whether it was worth it – on [...]
I admit, I’m plenty pissed off. Why, that is actually also quickly explained. I oute myself today once as a private headphone collector and all the parts that I do not actively use or have ready, go together and in best harmony in the original packaging in my warehouse. I should note that this room also houses headphones in the four-digit [...]
In the meantime I have finished building the measuring station and have also finally solved the amplifier part for the headphones and the measuring microphone with a Creative Soundblaster AE-9. Of course, that’s exactly what I’ll be reporting on today. By the way, I also exposed the used technology to the graphics card glitches and was [...]
