It’s impossible to take no notice of headphones, which are highly praised in all reviews without exception and about which everyone to a man is raving about. Today we’ll talk about FT1 by Fiio, another attempt to make it both good and cheap, for some $160, and even in a difficult class of closed-back models.
I wanted to write about these earphones a long time ago as they’ve been in my headphone vault for more than six months. Why so long? Well, everything was clear with them right away, and when everything is clear, writing obvious stuff no longer seems interesting.
I got a message from Sivga company once, asking «Would you like to do reviews of our sports earphones?» As I don’t know a thing about sports earphones, I immediately answered, «I’d rather get a Que model from you…» And they’re like, «Tell us your address, we’re on it!»
Immediately after I had published my review of Kennerton Arkona, stormy comments like «It’s just because you’ve never tried E3!!!11» rained down. I wondered what the matter was, so I went and bought them.
Portable DACs are inconvenient to use because they hang on a smartphone’s wire, and when in a pocket, they can just scratch its back and front surfaces. I wondered how to solve this problem.
The number of earphones around is just way too much. The mere Chinese all together seem to produce a whole new model a day. Therefore, I’m starting to adhere even more strictly to the rule of writing only about good and very good earphones and not writing about bad ones. And I’ll break this rule right away: today I’m gonna talking not about good, not about very good earphones, but about absolutely outstanding, exceptional earphones.
Even before the release of the excellent ZERO:RED, Truthear became known for two other models, NOVA and HEXA. We’ll talk about NOVA sometime later, yet about HEXA right now, since there is plenty to talk about here.
I dropped into the Kennerton office, and they’ve got some specialties: closed-back Arkona and open-back Vinneta. Both headphones models use a new driver. I immediately dragged them home to write a review. Today we’ll talk about Arkona, closed-back planar headphones for $3,277.
User-unfriendly, poorly documented engineering marvel. Consider the following text as an attempt to write coherently about the ADC itself, as well as the process of using it. It’s sort of a loose (and certainly incomplete) user manual if you like.
