Headphones.com - The Audio Files / Authors

Griffin Silver

2023-04-20T13:46:25Z

I’ve been calling myself “Listener” in the audio space for a while now, but I wager the name fit long before I ever needed an audiophile-tinged pseudonym online. As I've said often: Music is a lifelong friend.Our relationship began in the car with my mother, listening to her sing along to The Beatles. I credit my ear for music largely to her, both in her musical taste as well as the way she interacted with it. She always seemed to prefer harmonizing with the vocals of songs we listened to, instead of just singing the main melody, and I became...

Cameron Oatley

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

Cameron (aka GoldenSound) is a reviewer and content creator with a fascination not just for the sound and experience of products, but the design, theory and engineering behind them.Cameron’s life has always been closely linked with music, playing the piano, violin and drums from a young age, playing in an orchestra, and singing in both large choirs and smaller ensembles. However, his journey into high end audio began during university, where after being thrown in at the deep end with a listening session of the Focal Grande Utopia speakers, he knew he...

Theo Lee

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

Theo, who reviews under the handle Precogvision, entered the world of audio as a freshman in college. An innocuous, window-shopping session online piqued his interest in a pair of IEMs (in-ear-monitors). At the time, he knew these as little more than the specialized earphones that musicians used. But reading the plethora of gushing reviews with audiophile lingo - words describing the sound that he didn’t understand, but that were undoubtedly positive - he decided to purchase a pair. He hated these IEMs. After being burned once, and then surveying the landscape of the reviewing scene, Theo saw an...

Caleb Loo

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

Caleb’s first introduction into the audio world was as FOH engineer and pianist for church bands and live events. Desiring better music in everyday life, he started looking into personal audio gear. And like many new to the hobby, Caleb began with budget IEMs. Specifically, the popular Tin Audio T2. In fact, it was his first short review of the Tin Audio T2 that put it in the spotlight and opened up the doors to a hobby in reviewing. Linsoul reached out and offered to send him products to review, which he agreed on the condition that there...

Sebastian Taboada

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

Sebastian (Chrono) has always been passionate about both technology and audio. While his family has a musical background, and he is a guitarist himself, it wasn’t originally due to music that he got into Hi-Fi, though. Surprisingly enough, it was the pursuit of better audio gear for gaming that first drew his attention to high-end audio, with his first set of Hi-Fi headphones being the 80ohm DT 770 Pro from Beyerdynamic. After a few years of rocking Beyerdynamic’s classic closed-back (and with the prospect of COVID’s 2020 lockdown forcing everyone to work from home), he decided that his...

Taron Lissimore

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

Taron Lissimore is the co-founder of Headphones.com and along with his brother Andrew, has endeavored to share his love of audio with the community as much as humanly possible. Taron’s passion for audio came about through his Dad, who was always collecting every piece of junk audio equipment he could find to place into storage. Every now and then, he would bring out the PA system and audio interface to host a show or a wedding. Taron became fascinated. However, it wasn’t until Andrew invited him on the journey to start Headphones.com that Taron truly discovered how good...

Andrew Park

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

While Andrew has been a headphone reviewer for the past five years, he started his audio journey back in 2010 and has been building up his experience with high end equipment ever since. Andrew grew up surrounded by musicians and has an academic background, having done his Masters degree in perceptual theory and his approach to product evaluations stems from these two influences. The headphone hobby first got its hooks in for Andrew when he bought an original HiFiMAN HE-500 planar magnetic headphone back when it first came out. Not having the space for a full-sized speaker setup, for...

Douglas Stephens

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

Douglas Started reviewing audio equipment in 2016 by the handle “DMS”. Before this he owned a recording studio in Nashville, TN. Producing, mixing, and mastering grew a love for audio and a hunt for reference-class sound and new audio technologies for greater fidelity in music production. This has led to a wall of headphones and collection of speakers. Douglas enjoys discussion about the potential applications of new technologies, research, and perception of sound quality. He believes that our understanding of audio, measurements, and listener preferences is still in its early stages, but is still very important...

Andrew Lissimore

2022-11-07T09:58:36Z

Andrew CEO of Headphones.com and the cofounder with his brother, Taron. Andrew’s grandfather was Mart Kenney, "Canada's Big Band King", an alto and baritone saxophonist and clarinetist with a career that spanned the 1930s to the 1990s. Andrew grew up spending every Saturday with Mart, surrounded by music and musicians. He has played jazz trombone and bass in a punk band, but is now more focused on piano and acoustic guitar. He started Headphones.com to continue sharing and enjoying music and being part of the industry that makes it possible. He continues to find...