OHM AIR

Thomas Tsai joins OHM AIR to discuss Sony's Just Ears, his Noble Audio 4C and Ultimate Ears Reference In-Ear Reference custom earphone review, the Sony A7 and a whole lot more.

Be sure to follow OHM AIR on SoundCloud.

And be just as sure to check out Thomas Tsai's excellent audio reference site, Cymbacavum: http://cymbacavum.com

Lachlan's back, this time with hands-on experience of the Sony A15, a few nickel-and-dime Chinese earphones, and some thoughts on how to mould The Church of Audiophilia. Jude, blessed be his name, or Tyll, blessed also be his name, are top choices for high priest.

Lachlan gives the skinny on his one-song listening habits. My mind is blown.

Relevant talking points from this episode include:

Sony Walkman A15

Samsung's Jay-Z Dick Move

Apple's U2 Dick Move

4D TV

and much more.

Be sure to follow OHM AIR on SoundCloud.

And be just as sure to check out http://www.lachlanlikesathing.com, and http://www.youtube.com/user/lachlanlikesathing. Oh yeah, Lachlan has a great Facebook page, too: https://www.facebook.com/lachlanlikesathing

Well organised as ever, Fuji X Forum admin, Timo Schnitzlein (aka Arjay) comes back to remember lost Fujifilm bits and bolts. Later, he speculates about the X-Pro 2, and cheerfully disseminates the new bits and bolts of the X100t, and some exciting firmware changes to the X-T1.

Timo has a lot of great things planned for readers of Fuji X Forum, and will be coming back to OHM AIR from time to time.

Relevant talking points from this episode include:

Novoflex BALPRO T/S -- ohm image

Fujinon-EX 90/5,6 enlargement lens

Fujifilm X-Pro 1 diopter

Fujifilm X100t

Leica S (Typ 007)

Be sure to follow OHM AIR on SoundCloud.

And be just as sure to check out Fuji X-Forum, which is one of the friendliest, helpfulest X forums on the planet.

Deadpan Amos Barnett, aka Currawong, takes time out from YouTube and Headfi to arrest the long silence over here. He brings a shit microphone, but manages to be a great conversationalist anyway. We chat about large amps, the problems audiophiles face, the problems photographers face, the Bigma, the iPhone 6, and much, much more.

A few relevant talking points include:

ALO Audio Studio Six (ohm image)

Sigma Bigma (Sigma Global)

Sony A7r (ohm image)

Nikon D800 (Nikon Global)

iRiver AK240 (headfonia)

and more.

Be sure to check out Amos's YouTube channel, and hit him up at headfi. And if you haven't already, subscribe to OHM AIR on SoundCloud.

Headfonia's Lieven Vranken joins for a pre-CanJam Europe scrimmage. Episode 4 tackles earphones, Canjam, headphones, bad packaging, the iPod shuffle (again!), the rudeness of whisky and ice, and much, much more.

This week is a bit early, and for good reason: I'm heading to Hokkaido for a week of camping - and abstinence.

A few relevant talking points include:

Brainwavz S5

Audio Technica CK10

Philips Fidelio X2

iPod shuffle

Cosmic Ears

iRiver AK100/ii/120

the now-defunct iPod Classic

headphone girls

Be sure to follow OHM AIR on SoundCloud.

And be just as sure to check out Headfonia.com, the headphone review website that treats phones all classy-like. It's also where Lieven and I write.

Fuji X Forum admin, Timo Schnitzlein, (known in the forums and across the web as Arjay), joins me for episode 3 of OHM AIR. We discuss Fujifilm's latest announcements, sliced bread, the challenges of shooting still life with an X camera, the new X100T, why fly-by-wire rocks, why it sucks, and a flippy-floppy back-and-forth about Nikon and Fujifilm kit lenses, a strange misunderstanding about kit VS 50mm prime, and what have you.

Meanwhile, I drink.

Timo will be heading to Photokina this week, to gather the skinny on several most-wanted items, and hopefully, will grace OHM AIR again with his presence and a proper run-down of the event.

Relevant talking points include:

Fujifilm X100T

Sliced bread

Photokina

Sony A7r

Nikon 50/1,8

Nikon 18-55 kit lens in plastic mount

Nikon 17-55 f/2,8 pro-APS-C lens

Fujifilm 18-55 f/2,8 - 4,0 kit lens

Be sure to follow OHM AIR

And be just as sure to check out Fuji X-Forum (http://www.fujix-forum.com), which is one of the friendliest, helpfulest X forums on the planet.

Thomas Tsai visited us all the way from Cymbacavum. He was a trooper. He led early on in the two-hour sprint with a great impression, but broke down several minutes later. Coffee, it seems, holds no candle to whisky. The question that broke him?

"What does TWFK mean?"

And to think, until this moment, Mr. T. has been my earphone and earphone gut guide.

Be sure to check out Cymbacavum.

Relevant talking points include:

Sony's new A17 Walkman

The Bigma

Jerry Harvey Roxanne

nuforce Primo8

book margins

Jinro

Cowon Plenue

Lachlan Tsang of www.lachlanlikesathing.com costars in the very first OHM AIR. It's a vicarious trip through audiophile hate points like BEATS BY DRE, BOSE, and the iPod. (For the interested, we take on which alcohols are good for writing.)