Diapason d’or 2023: EARSONICS ELEMENTS wired headphones

Low price, quality sound and sophisticated design are the ingredients of these new in-ear audiophile headphones from the French leader based in Castries in Hérault. Ear-sonics specialty? Custom-made earphones based on the impression of the ear canals. Professional musicians and sound engineers have adopted them. Another clue? Earsonics only manufactures in-ears, a real specialty… The brand new Elements integrates three transducers per side, one of which driver dynamic and two others with balanced armatures. THE driver dynamic provides aeration and extended bass response. Everything is filtered in three ways and housed in an acrylic shell available in three colors (ocean blue, forest green, fire red). The high sensitivity of 125 dB/mW at 18.5 Ω is accompanied by a wide bandwidth (10 Hz-20 kHz).

It’s a good sign when you put the headphones down and start to simply want to listen to your playlist… The Elements are light and hold well in place if you take care to pass the wires behind the ears and choose the tips adapted to its morphology. The result then goes far beyond the debate between closed headphones or open headphones – a question of psychoacoustics. You are in the front row of the orchestra, or rather in the exact place of the microphones: this is the effect felt and this is what we should always hear, this mixture of realism and fusion which involves the listener, the fact enter into music. With the Elements, the goal is achieved, for an expense that is also measured in relation to the enjoyable sensation that emerges from such a way of listening. An experience to live!

The +: Striking realism, outside the frame.

Les: And an even more assertive bass?

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