THE REVIEWS
ads
Subscribe to our newsletter.
Sign up with your email address to receive news, updates, and our free quarterly magazine—AudioKeyREVIEWS!
IBASSO IT00 REVIEW
The IT00s renders a very coherent tuning from top to bottom with good air on top, a clear, engaging midrange. and a taunt, impactful bass. There is a warmth that wells up from the bass the nicely textures the midrange and vocals without smearing or obscuring detail.
IBASSO AM05 REVIEW
The AM05 renders an extended, clear, sweet voicing with quite good resolution, tone and timbre. And it does this in a very musically engaging and transparent way. It should definitely be noted that in single-ended mode the AM05 is imbued with a dollop of warmth.
IBASSO DX220/AMP1 MK II REVIEW
We were initially going to review only the iBASSO DX220 as aligned to the AMP9—a tubed module wherein there was great consensus that it would fall within our “sound niche.” But then we took a cursory listen to the iBASSO DX220 with the prix fixe AMP1 Mk II card with several headphones/IEMs, well, ‘it was on!’
ROSSON AUDIO DESIGN RAD-0 REVIEW
The Rosson Audio RAD-0 once removed from its hardened-plastic, flight container, dis-embedded from its tightly sculpted, foam sheath, its single-ended cables affixed, and then allied to the iFi Pro iDSD was nothing short of phenomenal! Had they even been broken in?!
IFI PRO IDSD HEADPHONE AMP/DAC/STREAMER REVIEW
The time spent with the Pro iDSD was time well spent, in that it offered, as listed above, a plethora of options, wonderful musicality and quite good transparency across all of its options, and it played well with many partners ranging from headphones (dynamic, planar) to In-Ear-Monitors (IEMs) all of which it drove beautifully.
MMR THUMMIN REVIEW
The Thummin design is, decidedly, avant-garde—experimental, radical, or unorthodox—as it embraces elements of Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller’s geodesic dome, a cutting-edge design for, perhaps, an Antarctic research facility, in miniature, or, as its name indicates, an ancient religious artifact imbued with magical powers. Needless to say, our curiosity was peaked with regard to just how this uniquely designed IEM might actually sound.
CAYIN N6ii/E01 REVIEW
In the E01 module Cayin has embraced a duality, that sees a “Warm/Transparent” tuning, reminiscent of EL34’s, “shacking up,” so to speak, with a “Reference (like)/Transparent” tuning. Said duality is, by the way, available on-the-fly—touch screen enabled. Sweet!