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.
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.
A job change and all sorts of other adventures made me take some time off from the reviews. But, as the saying is, “Don’t count on it!” — there will be a lot of them in the short run, and they will be interesting, well balanced and spot on! Let’s talk today about the in-ear wired earphones Truthear x Crinacle ZERO: RED.
Another chance. I decided to give MoonDrop’s TWS earphones another chance, and it was a tough decision because MoonDrop Alice were shamefully poor in terms of connection stability and proprietary software.
When it comes to MoonDrop Golden Ages 1979, my attention was drawn to their design, low cost, and a planar driver. And I also had a glimmer of hope that at least MoonDrop managed to bring the software to the users-don’t-get-sick-and-tired state, after all.
The KZ company approached me and offered to write a review for them, and I didn’t refuse, as you can see, with my usual condition that they won’t be able to influence the review result. So! Here it is – the CCA Rhapsody in-ear wired hybrid headphones costing $42.
