Audio Realviews

Early Impressions   Always on the lookout for promising audio offerings, I chanced upon hearing of the Tin Audio company which had me thinking about some metal oriented design language and after seeing the Tin Audio T1 before confirmed such assumption, they did indeed offer the metallic look on their audiophile products. Little did I know that a series of fortunate events would have me agreeing to review their latest offering, the Tin Audio T2.  Unboxing the Tin Audio T2 was a pleasure right after removing it from the glossy white rectangular cardbox package it had. I allowed my girlfriend do the unboxing and heard her exclaim "there's a book in here" after seeing the blue flip flap container it had, seeing the fascinated expression on her face had me saying that Tin Audio nailed this aspect of the product.  The Tin Audio came installed with stock blue foam ear tips. The metal build of the T2 had my personal approval and not only did it have a premium feel,...

Early Impressions With the Geek Wold GK3 having arrived on my doorstep just 2 full days ago, I immediately got down to business and opened it up. The packaging was in a black cardboard box with gold imprints of the brand and model, Geek Wold GK3, I might need to say it 3 times for the sake of the "3" there. The unboxing was brief, no noticeable factory defects and shipping issues, thank goodness! This can be purchased at Penon Audio for $19.99, right on the money for entry level audiophile stuff. The build and looks of this is awesome specially at the price it was offered, I personally like the black cable and the 3.5mm L-plug that came with it. The carbon fiber faceplate looks decent and is a great compliment with the black cable. It was however a finger print magnet although we don't care about that except when we want to take some fancy photos for our friends to see the Geek Wold GK3, there you go, I've said the brand and model 3 times, seems enough. ...

Intro   Launched 5 years ago, the open back AD900x headphone is smacked right in between Audio Technica’s High Fidelity series spearheaded by the new ADX5000. With all the contenders in the mid-level open-backed headphones market from the Brooklyn built Grado’s, German built Sennheiser’s to the New York based Hifiman’s. Is the Audio Technica AD900x headphone still even relevant in 2018? Let’s find out. Packaging and Build Quality   The packaging was a simple white box with “AIR” printed on the front and opening the front flap reveals the headphones, there’s only a 6.3mm adapter included, would have loved a travel bag. The AD900x weighs 265g and made of plastic all over except for the honeycomb aluminum casing, the cable is wrapped in matte rubber and retains the initial tangle once removed from the box, it also an OFC (oxygen-free copper) cable to note. It’s fairly long which lead me to shorten it and also change the plugs to a standard gold-plated 3.5mm plu...

Intro “Experience Music like never before”, Hidizs’s marketing slogan should be considered in relevance to their current flagship DAP (Digital Audio Player), the Hidizs AP200. With the influx of audio players being a common sight nowadays, that’s a bold statement to uphold. Let’s dive in deep and see if this mid-tier player provides an experience like never before. The Hidizs AP200 that we would be realviewing was purchased independently so no affiliation and influence from Hidizs whatsoever would impact this realview. Hidizs was founded in 2009 and released their 1 st music player way back 2014, the AP100, roughly 3 years after, the supposed successor for the latter was released in September 2017, the AP200 (this should be 100 times better, right?) which initially started as a Kickstarter project resulting to 943 backers which successfully received their respective AP200’s. The Ap200 was able to secure JAS (Japan Audio Association) and CEA (Consumer Technology As...