It’s everyone’s favorite period of the year; the upcoming Christmas season. As we approach that, we are greeted with a bunch of sale periods namely the 11.11 (less familiarly known as singles day), Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, and some small various ones that happen during the month of December!
Best Sounding Wireless Headphone? Drop THX Panda Review
The demand for wireless headphones has been at its peak thanks to the painful death of headphone jacks in smartphones. It honestly won’t surprise me if laptops and desktop computers would soon yank it out as well. ? Superb sound quality is rarely the selling point for these types but the Drop THX Panda headphone decided to differentiate itself from the rest. In this review, let’s find out if it succeeds in trying to do that.
Competitive in 2020? Hifiman HE400i Review
My first exposure to Hifiman headphones was during the local November Hifishow in 2014 when there was a dealer that displayed an HE400i, HE560i, and even the mighty HE500. At the time, I was just a couple of years into my headphone journey so auditioning those unsurprisingly blew me away. 3 years after that, I decided to finally get myself a pair. It was considered to be a competitive mid-fi headphone during that time and fast forward to today and having owned more than 10 headphones after, I thought it’d be interesting to see where I’d rank the HE400i and whether it’s worth recommending in 2020.
HD560s: Sennheiser’s New Entry-Level Audiophile Headphone
The HD-XXX line is Sennheiser’s main headphone line starting from the budget HD200 to its top-of-the-line HD800s. Specifically, the HD500/600s have been extremely popular to audiophiles because of their competitive pricing structure and how well they scale with better source and amplification. You can add the newly-released HD560s to that list which retails for $199 (around 9,600php)
High-Quality Listening at your Fingertips – DragonFly Cobalt Review
Adding a headphone amplifier and dedicate DAC to any type setup is far from the most convenient thing in the world. They take up space, you have to plug them in, and sometimes you need to buy additional cables to daisy chain them. What options are there if you don’t want that? You have the Dragonfly USB DAC/Amp/Pre-amp and today we have the Cobalt to take a look at.
Exotic and Extravagant: B&W P5 S2 Review
Small on-ear headphones have a weird place in this hobby. They are extraordinarily small, heavily marketed for casual use, but tend to be expensive for the sound they provide making them almost a non-option for most headphone enthusiasts.
The Bowers and Wilkins P5 S2 is one of them and in this review, we’ll determine if this specific headphone is even worthy of a look in the grander scheme of things.
The Divisive Audioquest NightOwl Carbon
Higher-end sealed headphones don’t usually give out a good price-performance ratio mainly because they don’t really deliver the same type of performance that their open back counterparts usually have. Until that time comes, the only allure of getting a headphone of this type is you get some noise isolation and no leakage which are both perfect for office work environments or studio applications. Does the Audioquest NighOwl fit in either of those applications? Well, let’s find out.
No Longer the King of Noise-Cancelling? Bose QC35ii Review
The Quiet Comfort 35 is arguably the most recommended noise-canceling headphone for the better part of the last decade but competition has been strong in the past two to three years with competitive offerings from Sony, Sennheiser, and Microsoft. Bose did release the Noise Canceling Headphone 700 which I’ve reviewed here but they also made some small upgrades to QC35 as opposed to completely retiring the line as what some may do. In this review, we’ll find out how the QC35ii fares with the competition.