Porta-Fi

06/11/2025

TOPPING opens its first on-site experience centre in Wuhan’s iconic Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street. Operating on an appointment-only basis, the centre offers personalised one-on-one sessions for audiophiles to experience TOPPING’s precision-engineered sound.

TOPPING has opened its first on-site experience centre in Wuhan offering appointment-only, one-on-one listening sessions with its acclaimed DACs and amplifiers.

01/11/2025

Fujiya Avic Headphone Festival Autumn 2025 Highlights: sloflo MS001GM

The MS001GM, the debut model from NDICS’s subsidiary brand sloflo, features a proprietary 10.2 mm dynamic driver with a DLC diaphragm, complemented by NDICS’s signature Pentaconn 4.4 mm balanced plug and COREIR AL Alloy ear tips.

01/11/2025

Fujiya Avic Headphone Festival Autumn 2025 Sightings: FiiO M27

The audition of the forthcoming FiiO M27 is available by reservation only, with individual listening sessions limited to 15 minutes.

01/11/2025

Our Editor, Beng Yeow is in Tokyo, Japan attending the Headphone Festival Autumn 2025.

26/10/2025

2025 CIHE: 3rd Wuhan International Headphones Expo Highlight: aune AC55

aune’s AC55 is a premium clip-on, open-back on-ear headphone that revives the ear-clip form with serious engineering: a 40 mm dynamic driver with a rigidity-enhanced W-shaped bio-fibre composite diaphragm, a custom long-excursion surround, and a symmetric high-dynamic motor system for deep, well-controlled bass, stable output, and low distortion. Rated at 15–40,000 Hz, 32 Ω and 112 dB (1 kHz) with

26/10/2025

2025 CIHE: 3rd Wuhan International Headphones Expo Highlight: Questyle Sigma Pro

Questyle Sigma Pro is a compact DAC/amp that pairs high-resolution conversion with Questyle’s current-mode amplification for clean, dynamic sound. Despite its size, it can deliver up to 1,200 mW into 32 Ω (balanced), giving it ample headroom for full-size headphones.

26/10/2025

2025 CIHE: 3rd Wuhan International Headphones Expo Highlight: Kingform KA-100 Tube Headphone Amplifier

The Kingform KA-100 is a high-end desktop tube headphone amplifier. At its core, it uses a classic architecture with an ECC82 preamp stage and dual EL84 power tubes. It supports pure Class-A balanced output and features independent high/low-frequency tuning, while also offering a convenient Bluetooth input mode. Under low-impedance (L setting) loads, its balanced output can deliver up to 1100 mW of power, providing outstanding drive capability.

26/10/2025

2025 CIHE: 3rd Wuhan International Headphones Expo Highlight: Sennheiser HDB 630 Hi-Res Wireless Headphone

Sennheiser unveiled its latest HDB 630 wireless audiophile headphones, featuring a 42 mm dynamic transducer crafted at the company’s Tullamore, Ireland facility. The headphones come bundled with Sennheiser’s BTD 700 USB-C transmitter, which enables aptX Adaptive connectivity for devices that do not natively support the Bluetooth codec.

25/10/2025

2025 CIHE: 3rd Wuhan International Headphones Expo Highlight: Original OPA-6A Tube Amplifier

Original introduced the OPA-6A tube amplifier, which runs four 300B tubes in parallel in a single-ended output stage. It’s rated at 14 W per channel for speakers, 1,000 mW per channel from the 6.35 mm single-ended headphone jack, and 2,000 mW per channel from the 4.4 mm balanced output.

25/10/2025

2025 CIHE: 3rd Wuhan International Headphones Expo Highlight: Trilogy H1 Energiser for Electrostatic Headphones

Trilogy presented the H1 Energiser for Electrostatic Headphones, a pure Class A, fully balanced amplifier designed for wide bandwidth and stable operation without global feedback. This topology aims to maintain signal integrity and minimise distortion, ensuring a transparent connection between source and transducer. The H1 delivers controlled low-frequency response, a coherent and articulate midrange, and the open, extended high-frequency performance characteristic of high-quality electrostatic systems.