Remember in 2018, when only three years of establishment of the new brand Shui Yueyu, launched the Aria aria priced at 399 yuan, this headset uses brass chrome-plated cavity, micro dynamic unit, and with Litz structure 4N purity oxygen-free copper wire, the sound is balanced, clean and transparent, the packaging is not gorgeous, but still out of its own style, won the recognition of enthusiasts, but in the follow-up production of more complex technology, the appearance of the tide of the plug, after a flash, it quietly withdrew from the time that was still walking" The market stage of the cost-effective route.
In my impression, this is composed of several enthusiasts, the early stage to collaborative production of headphones and then involved in headphone design and development, founded in 2015 Chengdu Shuiyueyu Technology Co., Ltd., at the beginning of the product are taking the "sound-price ratio" route, the price span is not large, basically concentrated in the thousands of yuan, such as once released on the flat plug market to attract attention VX, the use of brass cavity ix in-ear headphones, the exploration of the wireless field of Mirai, etc., in the young into the burning group, obtained enough sound volume. In the follow-up high-end products, whether it is the top flat-headed plug Liebesleid, or the Kanas series that has become a benchmark in the mouth of enthusiasts, as well as the top flagship plugs such as Blessing, Reference, A8, S8, ILLUMINATION light, etc., they occupy a place in the field of high-end headphones, which is inseparable from its deep cultivation in the field of HiFi: In addition to investing a lot of money in research and development manpower, In addition to exploring new technologies and new materials to achieve better sound quality playback with leading material suppliers in the industry, it has also built an international benchmark test and test environment.
Continuous learning, exploration, and humble team style, as well as independent thinking about products, have led to today's transformation.
If you open the Taobao page of Shuiyueyu today, it is not difficult to find a phenomenon, products within a thousand yuan are less than three years ago, and the high-end flagship-level flathead, moving iron into the ear, and moving circle into the ear are more, it seems that the price is not friendly for some small white users. If you like the headphones of Shuiyue Home, it happens to be within 500 yuan of the budget, how should you choose?
The new version of Aria can be understood.
As the saying goes, look at people first, the early water moon rain packaging style, just like the fashion magazines in recent years especially like the "vegetarian": only simple eye makeup to be modified, such a benefit is naturally able to let everyone pay attention to the clothes, headphones this side, the early rare with "cute lady" minimalist packaging, it does allow consumers to pay more attention to the product itself, but in my opinion, it is not exquisite.
And 21 Aria arias, the packaging is enough to make people shine.
Whether it is the curved packaging outlined by the black main color and gold that echoes the cavity, or the unpacking process full of ritual, you can see the unique and delicate design idea, which perfectly solves the packaging problem that has been criticized by some burners before.
Accessories part, not to expand here, it is worth saying that an accessory is equipped with tweezers and anti-clogging tuning filter, the skillful user can come to replace.
The only problem is that the headphone bag is really small, if you can match it with a larger headphone bag like light, it will be perfect.
Before sharing sound quality, it is necessary to talk about "technology". Digital products have a feature: the latest technology is limited by the cost, basically will not be used in the mid-end or even entry products, I give an example, before the fire of the electrostatic unit, but where the use of this built-in transformer structure electrostatic unit of the headphones, the price is basically around 10,000 yuan, the cheapest is also 5,000 yuan, until nearly a year later, the price has fallen, indicating that this technology tends to mature, can be applied on a large scale. The new Aria Aria is one such one, which applies some hardware configurations and technologies of the water moon high-end flagship headphones, such as the LCP liquid crystal diaphragm on the flagship headphones such as ILLMINATION light in terms of units, the CCAW voice coil as thin as 0.035mm diameter, and the N52 neodymium magnet (different from the optical magnetic flux density). Personally, I think that Aria and light do have some similarities in some quality performance, such as dynamic and transient performance.
In addition, there is a high frequency phase waveguide module that is independently placed to obtain a smooth and uniform frequency response in order to reduce the high frequency reflection sound to cancel the high frequency phase and generate the frequency response fluctuations, which can be understood as a filter if only simple explanation. In addition, in order to better sound performance, the cavity uses a composite sound cavity, multi-tuning holes and different sound damping tuning, so that it can bring both quality and hearing sound quality performance?
quality:
I found that some audio manufacturers, in the launch of less than 500 yuan price point of entry-level headphone products, like to promote their sound quality is three-frequency balance, suitable for the public tuning cloud, but in my opinion, there is no idea of their own tuning. Consumers who buy headphones at this price point, the vast majority of them want to enter the pit HiFi, want to establish a set of their own listening view through headphones, then what do they listen to the most? I asked a few friends around me who were going to burn, and they told me that I listened to more female voices and liked low-frequency tracks.
Aria directly writes some of the sound characteristics in the leaflet, which is very friendly and clear at a glance for users who are burning small white.
Is that, as the official description suggests, "closer to the studio's true timbre performance and a wider vertical soundstage, with ample sense of ambience"? Here to play a preventive shot, if you want to push and describe the same, it is still recommended to use a professional HiFi player, like the Mountain Spirit M6 Pro I have on hand, HIFIMAN HM1000 carmine can be pushed well, if you are ready to push the phone directly, then I suggest you better match a popular small tail.
I still use the HIFIMAN HM1000 as a front-end player and use nylon woven silver-plated threads to talk about how it sounds. As I said at the beginning, this is a plug with a sense of scale and natural atmosphere in the case of front-end pushing, but there is a clear sense of margin, and there will be no sense of boundlessness, coupled with the overall sound density is relatively high, so in some instrumental performance, it will not be thin, and has a certain sense of relaxation. In addition, the longitudinal soundstage of these headphones is also good, which can clearly show the instrumental knot and good depth.
But be careful, I don't recommend that you take this headset to listen to the "Beethoven Destiny" such a very test of dynamic and transient response playback ability of the track, even if the HM1000, which has very good control on hand, there is a strong marginal sense of lateral soundstage, there will still be a sense of crowding. But small chamber music, the performance is still easy, take the "2CELLOS" combination that specializes in using the cello to play various types of music, "Despacito" is one of the most famous adaptations, this track is very challenging high-frequency dynamics and transients, Aria can show the precise knot of the cello, as well as no mud and water, very sharp transient response, coupled with high-frequency lines are relatively tough, so personal feeling is a certain "aggressiveness". In addition, the instrumental result of this headset is not prominent, but has a certain distance, maintaining a suitable sense of sound and image, properly extending and overtones, and also enhancing the sense of high-frequency atmosphere.
Personally, I think that the headphones that Shui Yue came out of the Kanas series have a very big "improvement" in terms of vocals than at the beginning: for example, the medium frequency density is enhanced and some of the sound dyeing is appropriately increased, and the same is true for Aria, and at first I was not quite accustomed to this kind of dense and moist vocals. Some of the plugs that sell 1 or 2 times more than Aria rarely hear headphones that are so coordinated in density and hearing, either because the density is too thick or the vocals are too thin. In addition, this plug in the performance of male voice is a certain sense of heaviness and slightly with magnetic tone dyeing, in the performance of female vocals, slightly with a sense of stickiness and slight tooth tone, so that the sense of hearing natural and dense, popularly speaking, is what everyone calls "female poison".
Finally talk about low frequency, personally feel that the low frequency sense and the same price of HE01 ratio, can not be described as "abundant", but if compared with their own previous products, low frequency improvement is very impressive, not only maintain a reasonable and normal sense of volume, there is a good sense of transient response and speed, at the beginning I also felt slightly loose, rebound speed is also slow, after almost 50 hours of the cooker, you can feel the improvement of texture, in short, this is to let the new people into the burner and the old burner can accept the sense of normal low frequency of the plug.
Explore Metamorphosis:
The name of the ear is interesting: Aria, literally, is a solo piece that expresses the feelings of the singer with a beautiful melody of one or several voices accompanied by an accompaniment, characterized by a rich singing tone, longer than expressive feelings, exquisite accompaniment and specific forms, and in a wider range of forms, which can be opera, operetta, musical, divine drama, passion song or part of a oratorio.
And the headphones named after the aria, combined with the upper sense of hearing to summarize, this is a starter plug that allows you to quickly enter the state, listen to it for a long time, suitable for female voices and have a good sense of low-frequency atmosphere.
If you say it more concisely and bluntly, it is very enduring, and it can make people feel evocative after listening, just like the sweet fragrance left between the lips and teeth after drinking hand-brewed coffee that has been washed and treated with water.
The sound of the Aria aria of Water Moon Rain is like this, it is different from the sound of Kanas headphones before Water Moon, is this an exploration of the sound of entry HiFi equipment? From this exquisite and even subversive packaging to the well-detailed cavity design, and the metamorphosised "water-style" tuning, not only has the style been explored, but also developed, and I only hope that this style can continue.
After all, fashion is fleeting and style lives on.