Aune released AR5000, its first over-ear headphones, about a year ago, and these headphones were great, which I honestly wrote about. Now SR700, a new model, have appeared. Aune remembered about me and sent them to me for a review.
I’ve been familiar with Focal headphones for a long time, but in a one-track manner: for 5 years now, I’ve had amazing Focal Utopia in my personal use, which I haven’t wanted to change for anything over all this time. But the old Utopia are one thing, and the new Hadenys are a totally different thing.
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.
How much do you think any decent closed-back wired headphones could cost? All of a sudden, the JadeAudio’s collab with the FiiO gets released, and it’s a pretty unusual JT1 model. This is your answer to the above question. These cost around $50 at the AliExpress sale. Would you expect anything great from such a thing? I don’t know! I wouldn’t.
