Headphone Reviews & News Blog from HiFi Headphones

Phonak Audéo PFE Reviews

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 [...]

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Grado GR8 Earphones - high end balanced armature IEMs

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) [...]

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Beyerdynamic Gaming Headphones - MMX300, MMX2 and MMX1

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 [...]

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REVIEW: SoundMAGIC PL30 Earphones

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 [...]

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SoundMAGIC PL50 IEM Earphones Launched

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 [...]

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Home Listening Headphones Review

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.  [...]

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WeSC Headphones - new models available for summer!

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 [...]

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SoundMAGIC PL11 Earphones - big bass and high end clarity

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 [...]

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Education Headphones for Schools & Learning Centres

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 [...]

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Shure SRH840, SRH440 & SRH240 Closed Back Studio Headphones

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 [...]

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Speaker Station goes online

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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Custom Mould Earphones & Sleeves from ACS

HiFi Headphones is now offering custom made earphones and also custom sleeve ear gels for a range of popular standard earphone models.  Regular visitors to the HiFi Headphones store will have noticed that we’ve recently added a brand new category to the website.  We’ve also added a guide to custom fitted earphones and provided information [...]

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WeSC Open Flagship London Shop in Carnaby Street - Alp Horn First Photo

WeSC officially opened their first high street shop in Carnaby Street, London last night.  HiFi Headphones were invited to the launch party, which was organised by LateralCorp (the UK importer of WeSC products). The launch party was also attended by celebrity investor Debora Meadon from the UK TV series Dragons Den as well as the founder [...]

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FiiO E5 & E3 headphone amps - boost volume, add bass and improve soundstage

FiiO E5 & E3 headphone amps - boost volume, add bass and improve soundstage At HiFi Headphones we’ve just taken delivery of our first batch of FiiO headphone amplifiers.  The brand new FiiO E5 and FiiO E3 are ultra small headphone amplifiers with a price tag that makes them affordable for anyone with an iPod, MP3 [...]

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Why do I need a headphone amplifier?

What’s the point of a headphone amp? If you’ve been following the world of headphones you may have noticed that headphone amplifiers seem to be cropping up more often than ever, but what’s the point?  Do they just increase volume, or is there more to it? Below are a few good reasons to upgrade your audio setup [...]

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