Fostex Introduces Two New Headphone Models at NAMM 2018

Fostex, a division of Foster Electric and one of the world's foremost manufacturers of headphones and transducer technology with over 40 years, announced two new headphone models to be introduced at the American Music and Sound booth, during NAMM 2018. The first is the Fostex TH-900mk2 Sapphire Blue, a limited edition 5th anniversary of the brand's flagship premium audiophile headphone. The second, is the T60RP, modified and tuned especially for music enthusiasts, featuring wooden cups and a balanced connection.

Here is the full show report from the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2015, which Oliver Masciarotte found to be less crowded, different, upbeat, and certainly younger. He returned so impressed with what he saw and heard that it took him 9 pages just to compile the highlights and impressions! Full article now available online.

In this fascinating article, published in audioXpress, October 2004, Nelson Pass investigates loudspeaker performance when driven by a current source amp. This extensive research shows what Pass and Kent English found with a variety of full-range sensitive loudspeaker drivers when they drove them with an active current source and played with parallel networks to shape the response to their liking.

Fostex has released the newly updated RP mK3 series headphones. These redesigned models are the newest incarnations of Fostex’s legendary RP and T-series models, which for more than 30 years have been used as proven, reliable monitoring headphones in recording studios across the globe.

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San Diego, CA, headphone maker MrSpeakers just released Ether, an all-new open-backed headphone featuring a single-ended planar magnetic driver. When describing the new project, the company says Ether should sound excellent, be more comfortable than previous headphones from the brand, and have a timeless design.

Among the multiple IEM choices available on the market, balanced armature type drivers are recognized for its natural and transparent sound. Fostex’ new Model TE-07 Inner Ear Headphones sound great, are extremely well designed, the machined aluminum housing is outstanding, there’s a high-quality detachable cable and they sell for a very reasonable price.

Debuting at this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Festival/Can Jam show will be the new PX-5HS Hi-Fi speaker system and model TH500RP headphones from Fostex. Based on Fostex’ best selling studio monitor headphones T-series, the TH500RP are premium planar type headphones designed for hi fi audio listening. The PX-5HS is a 2-way Active Hi-Fi Speaker System, based on the Fostex professional reference monitor PX-5, carefully tuned to to deliver comfortably natural and clear sound to any listening room.