QCY Crossky C30 Open-Ear TWS Earbuds Review – Darkly Through The Looking Glass
The $50 QCY Crossky C30 were supplied by the company for my review and I thank them for that. I
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Author: Loomis T. Johnson (Chicago, USA)
Baseus Eli Sport 1 Open-Ear TWS Earbuds Review (1) – Real Men Don’t Wear Eyeshadow
Once an embryonic novelty, open-ear buds are suddenly The Next Big thing, with mainstream players like Bose and Beyerdynamic hawking
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Sony WH-CH720N Review Over-Ear Headphones Review – View From The Cheap Seats
Bose may have marginally better ANC and the Sennheiser Momentum 4 perhaps sounds a little better, but the Sony WH-1000XM4
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SMSL PS200 DAC Review – And The Hits Just Keep On Coming
I still struggle to comprehend SMSL’s rational for continuing to develop and promote its torrent of barely differentiated budget DACs
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Audirect Team 1 ES9281AC Portable USB DAC/AMP – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
Nicely machined and very pretty to behold, the nominally $329 ($279 intro) Team 1 is not without its design quirks.
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Audirect Atom 3 3.5mm Portable DAC Headphone Amp Review – Tiny Dancer In My Cranium
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of DAC/dongles—those that aspire to present the source faithfully and those that impart their
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Colorfly CDA-M1P DAC Review (2) – Bringing The Bass
The Colorfly CDA-M1P is well-built and well-featured, with a very powerful balanced out, but a bit too large and heavy
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Marshall Major IV On-Ear Bluetooth Headphones – First Do No Harm
My $40-on-Ebay Jabra 45H are nobody’s idea of a great sounding headphone, but they’re supremely comfortable and reliable, so I
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Very Short Takes On (Mostly) Very Long Movies
In a concerted effort to wean myself from CNN and the endless stream of apocalyptic news, I’ve been bingeing on
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Fosi Audio V3 Amplifier Review (2) – Second Opinion
I like the simplicity of this tiny Class D integrated, which sports only a single volume control, an RCA in
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Hidizs S9 Pro Plus Martha Balanced & Single-ended Dac/Amp Review – Metal Machine Music, Vol 2
Hidizs sent me the S9 Pro Plus at the same time as its SD2 (review here), which like Hidizs’s prior
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Hidizs SD2 Hifi Type-C to 3.5mm Dongle DAC Review – Of Gods, Generals And Agave
It’s not like I needed more bad habits, but in anticipation of democracy ending this year, I’ve recently gotten into
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OneOdio OpenRock Pro Open-Ear Air Conduction Headphones Review – On the Rocky Road To Enlightenment
Like Hyundais of yore, OneOdio and its sub-brands like SuperEq burst onto the scene with a bevy of cheap, cheerful
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