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Review: Bongiovi Acoutics Digital Power Station Plug-In

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 11th, 2010

We listen to quite a bit of music. And by ‘quite a bit’, we mean excessive amounts. For the most part, the majority is played via iTunes through a variety of output sources. There are plenty of hardware options to improve sound, software options on the other hand are pretty limited. The concept of an iTunes audio plug-in is not something entirely new. But up until a couple of weeks ago we had only heard of one, SRS Labs’ iWOW. That changed with the introduction of Bongiovi Acoustics’ Digital Power Station. We had played around with iWOW before, but never had really taken a liking to it, our one question had always been was it the execution that we didn’t like or the concept itself? Time to find out we suppose.

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Video Review: Shure SRH840 & Shure SRH750DJ

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onFebruary 22nd, 2010

Here it is. The first video review. Cover your ears – it’s Charlie talking. (Oh wait that’s me) Here’s to talking about yourself in third person. Anyways, more of these to come – but what better way than to start out with two wonderful pairs of headphones. Please subscribe to us on Youtube – there’s plenty more to come. You will be served wonderfully if you read both our take on the SRH840 and the SRH750DJ. And if you love headphones, you can’t miss our interview with Matt Engstrom from Shure. We’ll take praise and criticism however if you wish: comment here, our forums, YouTube, Twitter (or this Twitter), e-mail, carrier pigeons?

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Review: Pure Sounds Pur-1000

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onFebruary 19th, 2010

There are a couple of benchmarks that are near universal when it comes to getting to the top tier. If you can’t shoot free throws, you don’t belong in the NBA; if you can’t make a V8, you shouldn’t be making full-size trucks; if you can’t make a pair of $100 earphones; you aren’t there. We have written three reviews (here, here and here) about headphones from Empire Brands, all from Wicked. The game has changed a bit and now we examine the flagship line’s top offering: Pure Sounds Pur-1000. We cannot mention how important a good $100 headphone is. Companies can define their legitimacy by one headphone that performs exceedingly at that price; others can earn themselves labels of excuses explaining why their earphone failed. There is no place in the world of headphones more crowded then this segment, there is no place more competitive and there is no place more important. Unless the $100 price point is your lowest offering, chances are if you can’t make it there – you probably aren’t considered anything above third-tier when it comes to portable sound.

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Review: Wicked Empire (Bones)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onFebruary 15th, 2010

To some extent this is a case of “third time’s a charm” – but to a large extent we are befuddled. Today we review the Wicked Audio Empire earphones in the Bones configuration. The Empire model is the top of the line earphone from Wicked Audio, but not from Empire Brands (that comes Friday in case you are wondering…) Despite the mass confusion and loss of thought that regarding these headphones we do believe that these quintessentially define what Wicked Audio set out do and what it did: challenge Skullcandy.

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Review: Wicked Reverb

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onFebruary 12th, 2010

You know you make it big when you are reviewing a product that is virtually non-existent on the internet. Seriously, try to find something regarding the Wicked Reverb online – it’s not exactly easy. To our knowledge the only other page that mentions the Wicked Reverbs, is this post we published five hours ago. What that also means is that this is likely the only thing you are going to find about these headphones – and that is a little concerning, even for us. Just for your sake, we will try to be as thorough as we can about these; and by thorough we mean make up as many lies as we can. So joking aside, here comes a review about a product you can’t even find on Wicked’s website – the Wicked Reverb.

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Some Thoughts on Headphones

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onFebruary 12th, 2010

Recently we reviewed the Wicked Audio Reverb headphones and were unaware of the price of the headphones at the time when we were writing the review. That led us to an obvious question as we tried to guess how much they might cost – How important is the cost when it comes to determining the quality of a headphone?

When we were at CES we got try to a lot of headphones – some were good and some were bad. No matter the cost, we always asked the question, “how much do these cost?” A $30 headphone can sound amazing at $30 and very bad at $150. What we came to the conclusion of is that price plays a huge factor in determining how good we think a headphone is. A lot of headphones TheAudioFeed has reviewed have gotten good reviews, particularly because of their cost and the value they bring. Examples: the Wicked Little Buds got a very good review given the street price of $15 and the Panasonic RP-HTX7s got a very good review given their street price of $30. If we multiplied these by five times would we have given these a good review – probably not. When you look at something like the WESC Maraca, the headphone becomes significantly better at half the retail price of $60. (Although the Panasonics still run circles around them)

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Review: Wicked Little Buds

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onFebruary 8th, 2010

When we were at CES all the way back in January, we go to hear a lot of headphones. Some were from companies that you know make headphones like Sennheiser, and some were from companies even we hadn’t heard of before. Wicked Audio is one of the latter. Wicked is part of Empire Brands Inc., who also produces Pure, EarHugger and PowerUp. At CES we had the opportunity to briefly sample a couple of the many headphones they offer and today we write about the baby in the family, the Wicked Little Buds.

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