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Category: Reviews
Welcome to the reviews category page! Here you will find all the reviews I published on Soundphile Review, ranging from in-ear headphones and portable music players all the way to amplifiers and speakers.
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Cleer Flow II review: the best ANC under $200?
Bluetooth headphones with active noise cancelling (also known as ANC) are all the rage right now and multiple brands have … More
Shanling ME80 review: a new favourite
Shanling‘s ever-expanding roster of products recently got bigger with the introduction of the Shanling ME80: they’re in-ear headphones targeting the … More
Shanling UA1 review: portable joy
The Shanling UA1 is small, but bold, and you can tell that just by looking at it. This diminutive device … More
Campfire Audio Dorado 2020 review: the party’s here
“Dorado” is Spanish for “golden” or “gilded” (in my native language, Italian, it’s “dorato”) and I think that sets the … More
HiFiMAN Deva review: less wires, more fun
When HiFiMAN decided they wanted to go the wireless route, they decided they would do it their own way. Bluetooth … More
Thieaudio Legacy 4 review: an audiophile’s IEM
Thieaudio’s journey started with the planar over-ear headphones, the Phantom, and then expanded to the in-ear market, attacking its low- … More
HarmonicDyne Zeus review: comfort food for your ears
To many peoples the god of the Sun was also the main god in a pantheon, but that’s not true … More
HiFiMAN HE6SE v2 review: the beast and the beauty
A new version of a modern classic in the world of planar magnetic headphones, the HiFiMAN HE6SE v2 is basically … More
IKKO OH10 Obsidian review: beauty and fun
IKKO contacted me a while back asking whether I wanted to try their OH10 Obsidian, their second product which is … More
KB EAR Lark review: shining oh so bright
KB EAR seems intent on competing for the “best value” award as they’ve been launching great earphones at affordable prices. … More
KB EAR Stellar review: astronomical value
Truth and virtue may lie in the middle, but the extremes surely do have interesting bits as well – especially … More
Cayin N5ii review: a work-in-progress masterpiece
Cayin’s latest effort in the DAP space, the Cayin N5ii, is the latest contender to the championship title in this … More
xDuoo LinK 2 review: an audio companion
A year has passed since the xDuoo LinK made its debut and the company has been constantly renovating their offer, … More
Audirect Beam 2S review: balanced portability gets tiny
Improving something bad is easy, but improving something that’s already quite good is hard – terribly hard, in fact. The … More
