If I were you would go to head-fi.org and take a look around if you haven’t done that already. Headphones dedicated site that often times ask for reviewers, mostly voluntary, but still get you a foot in the door. Hope that helps.
How do I get a job as a headphone reviewer?
I'm partially disabled and have a hard time with most jobs, but I can work a little part-time especially if it's low stress.
I've had high-end equipment, especially headphones, for 20 years. I'm also an amateur musician and have an analytical and music-oriented "ear." It occurred to me... maybe I could be a reviewer. Maybe it would be a nice part time side gig. But how do reviewers get their jobs?
I live in a small apartment and don't have a place for speakers with any kind of good room set-up... so it would have to be headphones I review, or headphone amps, also DACs, computer audio, and that kind of thing.
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@ghdprentice I may not have as much experience as you think, given that I only had two periods in which I updated my system and it stayed the same for up to seven years in-between. In the last period of update, I discovered a technician in the New Jersey Audio Society who does great custom work, and ended up with fairly inexpensive stuff that was custom worked over. For example, I have a Bravo headphone amp from 7 years ago... cheap Chinese junk, right? ... with all the parts replaced, shielding and damping added, beefy linear power supply, that sounds fantastic. My current DAC, Windows 10 computer, all cabling, power conditioning, etc. is custom modified by this guy. So this wouldn't be a good starting point for a review as no one can compare to it. My current best headphone is a pre-fazor LCD-2 with a custom cable soldered directly to the drivers. I've heard fazor LCD-3's and LCD-X's but liked mine better. But that was the last time I was tweaking my system. I haven't heard any new headphones since. I'm starting a new period of system upheaval, focused mainly on the DAC and transport, but it's getting expensive. I can't sell my custom modified stuff to pay for it. So writing reviews may not be the best idea at this point. I can't justify spending a lot of money in order to make a little money. I suppose even the giants of speaker system reviews who get sent free equipment, etc. are using their homes, an enormous expense they paid for themselves, to provide a base for doing the review. Wait... tax deductibility! Well, not quite enough to make it practical. Thanks for everyone's ideas. |
Yeah, you have to watch out for those system upheavals… they can be costly. Last time it happened with me it cost about $10K for my headphone system. That sounds bad… but unfortunately then comparing it to my main system I realized I needed to upgrade my main system… that cost $70K. Don’t get me wrong, it was all absolutely worth it… but once started it can be hard to stop. |
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