When looking at the strength of a headset brand, many people naturally put the brand habits that have heard the most discussion in front, or simply look at sales.
But we all know that these dimensions are easily misled by their own insights and then biased, for example, how strong do you think Weston is?
In fact, in my opinion, there is a point that the market is ignored by the majority of consumers or burners, that is, the vitality value of a certain brand. If you think that the vitality value is only the promotion behavior of the brand, it is wrong, and it is more important to see its new product release and iteration.
In addition to replacing the old model, the iteration of new products is more about showing the different views of the brand and the market layout in the field of HIFI headphones. The former naturally refers to the sound style, and the latter refers to the market positioning (different price points must participate).
If you agree with me, you will find that KINERA's development in the past two years is really obvious enough. But KINERA's development was not smooth, or even almost premature, which can be seen from the birth of its sister brand QQA (the king is not there, and the queen).
▲ Today's sharing is THERN released by KINERA last year, which is a circle of four irons priced at 2999 yuan, looking at the exquisite box and beautiful appearance, it may also make people think that this is selling gifts.
Here is a key point, NORN uses a physical three-way frequency, in addition to the higher degree of reduction in theory, it is also a big curiosity for headphone enthusiasts.
In addition, it has a good result of ranking second in the monthly sales list of HIFI headphones in Japan, followed by Senheiser IE300, is it a little interesting to you?
▲ Family portrait display, the standard main line is 2.5 balance head, and at the same time equipped with transfer lines of turn 3.5 and turn 4.4.
▲The main line of NORN is slightly thicker, but it is relatively soft, has no elasticity, and the storage index is excellent. The wire itself is also quite weighty, directly using 8 strands of 192 core alloy copper plated silver wire.
▲ Resin + hand-painted design is already THE SIGNATURE OF KINERA, the reason why there is this design in my opinion is not just to cater to the mainstream aesthetics of the domestic HIFI circle, but also a reason is that KINERAD's headphone naming is mostly combined with Norse mythology, casually you can see that each of its headphones is basically a color, since it is a kind of it, it is the ultimate it, so it may be hand-drawn.
▲ Look at the value of your own, the warmth and gloss of this resin is obvious, here to show its three catheters in the mouth, that is, the physical three-way frequency. Compared with electronic crossover, the effort and technical content are high, but it may also cause problems in the three-frequency connection because the technology is not in place.
▲The wire change scheme uses the mainstream 0.78 double-pin scheme, although there is a risk of breaking, but the wire change is more convenient, and the actual life is longer than that of MMCX.
▲ Wearing or say, as a circle of four iron NORN, its cavity is actually not large, can only be considered medium, do not know whether this is one of the advantages of physical three-way frequency.
Because the cavity of NORN is not large, coupled with the soft earhook, whether it is the weight-bearing of the ear or the stethoscope effect when walking, it is more comfortable when wearing, and the full score can be scored 8 points.
▲In terms of product selling points, NORN is a bit much, let's talk about the configuration first.
Among them, the dynamic coil unit is KINERA's self-developed 7 mm external magnetic circuit moving coil unit, equipped with N52 NdFeB strong magnet and Japan's big black pure copper voice coil, the most worth mentioning is the titanium-plated dome PU composite high polyfiber suspension diaphragm, whether it is high polyfiber or PU diaphragm or titanium plating have remarkable characteristics.
In terms of moving iron, there are 2 Lou's composite version 32873 + 2 custom moving irons, the former is responsible for the intermediate frequency, and the latter is responsible for the medium and high frequency.
In terms of core parameters, the NORN impedance is 32 ohms, the sensitivity is 110dB, and the frequency response range is 5Hz-40KHz.
In addition to the physical crossover of the front cavity three-catheter, there is also the rear cavity mirror reflection structure, which is interested in directly picking up the official purchase page copy.
▲ Speaking of sound, when using the 2.5 balance of Kaiyin N5II as the source of the accent, the low frequency of NORN shows a certain sense of aggression, the sound field is relatively wide, the diving is not very deep, but the instrumental separation is excellent, and the more concentrated sense of cohesion makes its sense of volume appear thick, elastic has room for improvement, listening to the metal low frequency will feel too bright or even hard, but the Chinese national drum or conga drum and even hand drum instruments are just right.
When listening to Chen Xunqi's "Heaven and Earth Lonely Shadow Let Me Go", in addition to the sound field and the sense of volume, the instrumental level and elasticity are also very good, dynamic foot, transient in a decent manner, the atmosphere is slightly rich, there is a more obvious sense of transparency, and the mood is almost meaningless.
However, when listening to Hu Weili's version of "Boys When Self-Improvement" (national instrumental version), there is that exciting sense of majesty and temperament, instrumental analysis and separation are excellent, the sound field is clearly layered, and the momentum is compelling but not noisy.
▲ Although the low frequency of NORN is strong, there is no sign of low frequency in its vocal part, even if it listens to the human subwoofer Zhao Peng, there is no deliberate low frequency, and the position is very scientific. In addition to the full, bright tone, NORN vocals have a slightly obvious sense of density, clean and clean analysis, less tooth sounds, the overall is more neutral, no cold and warm trends, listening to male voices is not as delicate as female voices, but can control various types of sounds.
But if you ask if it is more inclined to male or female voice, I think it is five or five open, and can control a variety of ranges, styles of male voice is different, NORN's female voice is basically consistent, but each style is point to point, whether it is deep or sweet or lazy, the first listen is not big scratching, listening carefully but feels the charm.
Only relatively speaking, individuals prefer to use it to listen to male voices, from Zhao Peng to Eight Eyes to Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash, these low-frequency male voices have shown a clean, neutral and charming charm on NORN.
NORN's high frequency in brightness and dynamics is and the low frequency to maintain a surprising balance, the connection is relatively smooth, but because it and K3003 this circle iron compared to slightly thicker, brightness is not inferior to each other, so it is not as good as the low frequency exquisite, listen to small orchestra strings have an excellent sense of instrumental separation and soundstage, the overall sense of transparency is obvious, including the sense of extension is also very good, instrumental overtones are obvious, but it is the disadvantage of musical taste.
However, when listening to the orchestral music, NORN's loud field, excellent instrumental separation, and dynamics have a sense of presence and transparency that is rare in earbuds. Taking the Scorpions' famous song "Hurricane2000" as an example, the opening symphony is good enough, both dynamic and transient, including the extension of the strings, and when the vocals are sounded, the layers of instrumental music and vocals are obvious, and even the mixed and matched percussion has a good analysis.
▲ Because the high frequency is still unfinished and the low frequency is not perfect, plus THERN is still relatively easy to push, the individual tried Lepi L4, the voice becomes more pure, the softness of the female voice will increase and thus have more sweetness, compared to the Kaiyin N5II is more durable, the male voice in addition to being more pure, delicate has a certain increase, the style has no obvious change.
In the high frequency of L4, the thickness of NORN is more natural than that of Kaiyin N5II, and the instrumental performance has become delicate and vivid, including the musical taste, which can be said to be qualitative change.
This makes me a little regret that I chose Kaiyin N5II as its main audition machine at the beginning, the reason for choosing the latter is because THERN itself is not difficult to push, and the original line is still 2.5, but I did not think that it was in addition to its solid quality, and it performed better in the case of dealing with loud pressure, which is not the same concept as the powerful miracle, but it verifies the super potential of NORN, which is not expanded in detail in view of the limited space.
▲Summary section
In the end, there is nothing to sum up, in general, KINERA This pair of NORN is not a headset with amazing sound quality, and those warm and atmospheric dynamics are not much different, generally neutral, and very listenable, because there is a balanced three-frequency plus a wide soundstage, the style is very omnivorous.
In addition to being competent for orchestral music, including electronic music, other pop, folk, jazz are not in the word, ordinary people may still like its low and medium frequencies, but I love its instrumental performance, another day to share alone.
Finally, the last to say that the mobile phone party uses it to listen to songs is also OK, in addition to some low frequencies are not transparent enough, but there is no bad sound, the instrumental performance is still touching.