Berlin City West
Here is a high-res shot capturing the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche at the Breitscheidplatz, the Upper West skyscraper and Waldorf Astoria luxury hotel at Berlin Zoo. In the front, the long 4-story building is known as Bikini. The area is also known as the center of Berlin City...
Shooting Oscar-winning Volker Bertelmann
Shortly before winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music for his powerful work on All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), I had the opportunity to visit Volker Bertelmann — also known by his artist name, Hauschka — at his studio in Düsseldorf....
Klaus Heinz
There are few engineers as iconic and famous as Klaus Heinz. You’d think he’d be best known as the former face of ADAM Audio, one of the top pro-audio monitoring brands. Having worked for him, I noticed that his stardom goes way back to the...
KEF LS50 Meta: The Queen of Voices
Review of the KEF LS50 Meta driven by Chord Anni and compared to HEDD Type 07 MK2. Awarded as the Queen of Voices. Find out why!
Closed or Ported
HEDD’s “Closed or Ported” (CoP) innovation is a clever feature to offer two distinct monitoring experiences in one speaker. It is applicable to all of the MK2 speaker range and uses the DSP to make all the necessary adjustments to get the most of either...
Stepping Up My Game
What is this blog even supposed to be? In my introductory post I said: “My intention is not to create another review blog.” But it has become exactly that. So I said to myself, “if you are going to do reviews anyway, then at least...
Softears RS10: Reference Sound Has a Number
Welcome to this deep analysis review of the Softears RS10. There has been a lot of praise of this IEM in countries where it’s already available. My network has been hyping the RS10 since 2018 and it’s not until now that I actually get to...
HEDD Type 07 MK2 as Home Speakers
Full disclaimer first: I work for the smart people at HEDD Audio! I’m fairly new to the company so I have absolutely zero involvement in any of the company’s current products. Since I’m not an engineer, technician, or physicist, my feedback will also probably have...
Flavor of the Month: Softears Turii
The Softears Turii is a high-end reference flagship IEM. Its unconventional design has the slogan “twist your ears” and is a showcase for the capabilities of a single dynamic driver. Fortunately, the complex construction delivers exceptionally revealing sound that adds a musical touch to linear...
Disclaimer
This is a general disclaimer concerning my blog and articles. You can jump a few paragraphs ahead if you do not care about how this blog came to life. Here is the actual disclaimer. I first got confronted with Head-Fi in 2009. I quickly realized...
Softears RSV
The Softears RSV is the new kid on the block. It is an extremely refined 3-way universal IEM with 5BA. I have written an introduction to the manufacturer and their products here. The RSV is the company’s cheapest model yet. The local price in China is...
Softears RSV Measurements
As announced in the Softears introduction post, here are the measurements of the Softears RSV, aka Reference Sound 5. Softears RSV Frequency Response Spoiler alert: I think this is hands down the best-tuned IEM I have ever come across! You can thank me for finding...