KBEAR Aurora Review (3) – More Comments From The Peanut Gallery
Much like its predecessor, the $160 KBEAR Believe (as well as the cheaper KBEAR Diamond and KBEAR KB04), the mid-focused, $170 KBEAR Aurora scores high on the technicalities—low end is well-sculpted and meaty, coherence between frequencies is seamless and layering and imaging are impressive, even if the soundstage is fairly narrow.
However like its brethren the KBEAR Aurora’s tonality is just a little bit off—for lack of a better description, everything sounds “recorded” and slightly unnatural. Acoustic guitars, in particular, lack shimmer and crispness and sound more like electric, while drums show something of a cardboard box effect and miss some snap, depth and resonance.
High end is smooth and tasteful but, as others have opined, rolls off too early and misses some of the high-level microdetail you’d expect at this price point. By no means a bad IEM—these would have considerable appeal to fans of vocal-oriented material or to the treble averse—but I prefer KBEAR’s cheaper offerings.
KBEAR Aurora Specifications
- Driver configuration: 10mm Nano Titanium Plated Diaphragm
- Frequency response: 20 Hz – 20kHz
- Impedance: 18 Ω
- Sensitivity: 105 dB/mW
- Cable: 2 Pin (0.78mm), OFC Silver plated cable
- Tested at $169 USD
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Borrowed from Durwood. These were sent to him gratis via Keephifi.
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