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Headphones for watching TV for the hard of hearing

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

When one person in the household is hard of hearing it can be difficult to reach a compromise over the volume level when watching TV. It’s a common problem and TV Ears headphones provide the solution. While using TV Ears headphones, the television volume can be lowered or muted without affecting the volume of the [...]

Westone Earphones With Removable Cables - UM2 & UM3X

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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Westone have just released a revision of the UM2 and UM3X with removable cables. This means that if the cabling breaks you just swap the cable for a replacement. This is something that owners of Ultimate Ears (Super.fi and Triple.fi) and Sennheiser (IE8) have been enjoying for some time, so it’s great to see Westone [...]

Beyerdynamic T50p Headphones - a B&W P5 beater?

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Beyerdynamic are just about to launched the T50p in the UK - a new portable headphone that is set to compete head to head with the B&W P5. Matt from Polar Audio (Beyerdynamic’s UK distributor) visited HiFi Headphones HQ today to give us a first listen. It appears that the high end portable headphone market [...]

Sleek Audio SA7 - high end, durable earphone made from military grade aluminium

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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Sleek Audio have finally unleashed the eagerly awaited SA7 earphone on the World. The SA7 is the new high end in ear monitor (IEM) from Sleek Audio with the earphone featuring a milled aluminium body, carbon fibre cladding and dual wideband balanced armature drivers. Built to last, the SA7 earphone will appeal to those who get [...]

Phonak Audéo PFE Reviews

Monday, November 9, 2009

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The truly excellent Audéo PFE earphone from Phonak have been getting some great reviews since it’s launch. The PFE (Perfect Fit Earphone) is a very well balanced sounding in-ear monitor earphone with excellent levels of comfort and an easy fit, even for smaller ears. Supplied with user changeable filters the bass and treble levels can [...]

Grado GR8 Earphones - high end balanced armature IEMs

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Grado GR8 Earphone Gets UK Launch Grado are well known for their mid to high end Hi-Fi headphones, with the top of the range Grado GS1000i being the benchmark that other high end headphones are measured against. This last month has seen the surprise release of the first Grado in-ear earphone (In Ear Monitor or IEM) [...]

Beyerdynamic Gaming Headphones - MMX300, MMX2 and MMX1

Friday, July 17, 2009

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Beyerdynamic High End Gaming Headphones Beyerdynamic have a long heritage of producing very high quality headphones for home Hi-Fi, professional use (studio and live instrument monitoring) and aviation use. Now Beyerdynamic have just turned their hand to developing a range of high quality gaming headsets and it looks like they are on to a winner! As can [...]

REVIEW: SoundMAGIC PL30 Earphones

Friday, July 10, 2009

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SoundMAGIC PL30 Review The SoundMAGIC PL30 is an IEM (In Ear Monitor) style earphone with an over ear cable fit system and innovative bass control switch. The PL30 is priced to compete directly with earphones like the Sennheiser CX300-II, Denon AH-C351 and Ultimate Ears Metro.fi 220. SoundMAGIC earphones are a relatively new addition to the line-up at [...]

SoundMAGIC PL50 IEM Earphones Launched

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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SoundMAGIC PL50 SoundMAGIC have released the PL50 IEM earphone in Asia this week. The PL50 is an in-ear sound isolating design and looks like it will be competing with higher end IEMs, such as the Shure and Ultimate Ears range. This is SoundMAGIC’s first step into a balanced armature technology earphone and we’re really keen to give [...]

Home Listening Headphones Review

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Home Listening Hi-Fi Headphone Mini Review We were recently asked to review a selection of headphones suitable for home Hi-Fi listening by Shortlist (a popular mens lifestyle magazine). Below is the selection of headphones we offered with the review we gave: High End Headphones Grado SR325is Review Open back on-ear headphones. Retro design. Excellent sound with brilliant detail and clarity. [...]

WeSC Headphones - new models available for summer!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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WeSC Pickup & Maraca - New Models WeSC have just launched some new models in time for the summer holiday season. The new headphone models are the WeSC Pickup and the WeSC Maraca. The WeSC Maraca headphone is has a distincly retro design, not that far away from the highly sought after Alp Horn, but is a [...]

SoundMAGIC PL11 Earphones - big bass and high end clarity

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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SoundMAGIC PL11 Review The SoundMAGIC PL11 has pushed the boundaries of what can be expected from an entry level in-ear isolating earphone. For less than the cost of a Playstation game the PL11 offers high end audio clarity, with enough low end power to satisfy the biggest bass-head. Looking and feeling like an earphone that comes from [...]

Education Headphones for Schools & Learning Centres

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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Headphones for Use in Schools, Colleges & Learning Centres Educational headphones have specific requirements that set them apart from the type of headphones used for home listening or with an iPod. Picking the best headphone for use in schools and other learning environments needs careful consideration. At HiFi Headphones we have built up considerable experience of the [...]

Shure SRH840, SRH440 & SRH240 Closed Back Studio Headphones

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Shure have just launched a brand new range of closed back studio and DJ headphones that have already been getting quite a bit of interest since news of the pricing was leaked on Head-Fi.org. Full size headphones is a new departure for Shure, as they are known best for their in-ear sound isolating earphones. Initial user [...]

Speaker Station goes online

Sunday, May 3, 2009

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We’re proud to announce the launch of Speaker Station an online store dedicated to audio speakers, iPod docks, portable speakers and many more speaker related products. The new speaker website will be very familiar to HiFi Headphones visitors and we aim to offer the same excellent service and product range. Please visit the Speaker Station website and [...]

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Headphones for watching TV for the hard of hearing

Westone Earphones With Removable Cables - UM2 & UM3X

Beyerdynamic T50p Headphones - a B&W P5 beater?

Sleek Audio SA7 - high end, durable earphone made from military grade aluminium

Phonak Audéo PFE Reviews

Grado GR8 Earphones - high end balanced armature IEMs

Beyerdynamic Gaming Headphones - MMX300, MMX2 and MMX1

REVIEW: SoundMAGIC PL30 Earphones

SoundMAGIC PL50 IEM Earphones Launched

Home Listening Headphones Review

WeSC Headphones - new models available for summer!

SoundMAGIC PL11 Earphones - big bass and high end clarity

Education Headphones for Schools & Learning Centres

Shure SRH840, SRH440 & SRH240 Closed Back Studio Headphones

Speaker Station goes online

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