OVERVIEW: Creative Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus - Great Rebar Dual Emitter Headphones

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Have you ever listened to your favorite music truly, without distortion, authentically, as it sounded in a recording studio? Equipment of this quality of reproduction is inaccessible to the absolute majority of people, but you can still indulge yourself with something. I will tell you about affordable headphones, similar to those used by the musicians themselves.

For those completely unfamiliar with the technical side of the issue, I will make a short explanation. Almost all headphones on the market are dynamic. Roughly speaking, they are arranged like the most ordinary columns, only greatly reduced in size. The dynamic design is not distinguished by high fidelity and clarity of reproduction, and the reduction in size only exacerbates its disadvantages.

Balanced armature headphones, also known as armature headphones, use a different technology based on a movable U-shaped ferromagnetic armature that acts on a radiating membrane.

In a reinforcing emitter, the membrane is much lighter than in a dynamic one, since there is no magnet attached to it. The armature is much heavier than the membrane, due to which the inherent elasticity of the latter does not affect the reliability of the reproduced sound.

Balanced armature headphones offer a completely different level of fidelity and clarity, unattainable for "conventional" dynamic models.

Like many cool technologies, armature emitters were originally used in the medical and military fields. Such a radiator is VERY loud and sensitive, and therefore they are used in hearing aids.

During World War II, "fittings" were used in military communications. With an equal input signal level, the reinforcing emitter gave a 40% louder sound than the dynamic one, which helped to hear the interlocutor better against the background of explosions and other "delights" of hostilities.

The status of studio headphones with a balanced armature received thanks to the same extraordinary loudness and fidelity. During a live performance, the performer needs to somehow hear the music, including himself, and hear it well, clearly and correctly. The sound reflected from the concert hall returns with a delay, and therefore it is useless to focus on it.

Monitor speakers installed on stage and directed at the performer create unwanted acoustic problems due to the need to operate at high volumes and prevent movement around the stage. Balanced armature headphones do not have all of these drawbacks.

The armature emitter had only one problem - a lower operating range than the dynamic one, but after the technology penetrated the mass market, engineers from consumer and professional audio equipment manufacturers eliminated the shortcoming.

A special charm of headphones with a balanced armature is that they can be purchased at a very reasonable price, having received studio sound quality in return.

The headphones, which I will talk about further, cost 11 thousand rubles. This is normal for good headphones. In fact, this is the only type of personal wearable audio equipment with studio sound and sane value. If you buy dynamic headphones for the same 11 thousand, then the reliability and purity of the sound in them will still greatly lose to the reinforcing ones.

Above the "fittings" there are only electrostatic and planar headphones, and there prices are measured not in thousands, but in tens of thousands of rubles. Also, "planar" and "electrostatics" need an amplifier, which can cost two or more times more expensive than the headphones themselves, and therefore we will leave the "elite" audio equipment to the "chosen ones."

On this, a short excursion into the world of headphone varieties can be considered complete. Let's move on to the review.

Creative Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus - in-ear headphones-headset with double armature radiators and mixed mounting type.

Naturally, I will start with the sound. It is always difficult to describe the sound, but some of the features can be expressed in words.

First, there is some amazing detail. I connected the Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus to my Nexus 5. This is not the worst smartphone in terms of sound conversion quality, and, as it seems to me, it may well reveal at least part of the potential of armature headphones. In addition, I store music exclusively in 320 kbps and lossless, and therefore it is impossible to sin on the quality of the tracks themselves.

In Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus, I heard new things in the compositions that have been used up and down. For example, Cranberries, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, and Within Temptation. I have been listening to these bands for as long as I can remember, but in the "armature" I heard them in a new way. The smallest, previously hidden details in the painfully familiar songs were revealed to me. Switching to my fairly high-quality dynamic headset, I again lost those details. In fact, now I want to listen to my entire music collection in "armature", which I do in the process of work.

Secondly, it is a perfectly balanced sound. Most of all, I feared the lack of expression of the low end, having read the criticism about the inability of the "armature" to give normal bass. Nonsense and lies. The Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus do a great job with bass. Of course, after some full-size headphones, it may seem that reinforcing radiators give little low end, but this happens only for the first seconds and only because there is too much bass in most large models. Accustomed to tyts-tyts and various dubsteps will probably be disappointed with the default sound, but if desired, all this is twisted through the equalizer.

By the way, I do not exclude the fact that complaints about the excessive limitation of the working range of the "armature" are justified in the case of one emitter per one ear. The Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus has two emitters per ear. One for the low and mid frequencies, and the other only for the high. The product website also talks about some kind of special case design and a sound-conducting tube.

It is quite possible that without all these engineering bells and whistles, the lower and upper classes would really sink. However, all this is guesswork that has nothing to do with this headphone model, but in fact I enjoy the richest, even sound.

Since we are talking about the design, it will not be superfluous to talk about the wearing comfort of the Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus. For some reason, on the manufacturer's website, the model is called in-ear headphones. In my understanding, earbuds are what is inserted into the auricle. In this case, there are plugs, and they are inserted into the ear canal, which means that the Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus is "in-ear".

The peculiarity of "in-channels" is that for a good sound you need to choose the right plugs. When the ear canal is sealed, the sound becomes even better. I really liked the included foam plugs. They sit tightly but softly. If you still have any complaints about the bass even after tightening the equalizer, then after installing the foam plugs, they will definitely disappear.

Too good sealing is both a plus and a minus. The sound, of course, is great, but the connection with the outside world is completely lost. Crossing the road is frankly scary, because you can only hear the music.

The Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus, in fact, has a triple mount: the earplugs themselves, the housing that rests against the auricle, as well as a wire that extends over the ear and supports the headphones well. There are no complaints about ergonomics at all. Even when the Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus was tried on for a compact girl's ear and the body did not fit in the auricle, the headphones still held securely and did not cause inconvenience.

The outer finish of the wires is made of textiles and, of course, outperforms rubber both in the feel of contact with the skin and in comfort. First, such a wire does not seem cold at all at low temperatures. This adds to the comfort of wearing the Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus in fall, winter and spring. Secondly, textiles are less prone to tangling. That is, the wires can twist, but they are much easier and faster to untangle.

An L-shaped plug for connection is always good. From personal experience, I can say that a straight plug serves about 3-4 times less due to stronger bends in the area of / u200b / u200bthe connection of the wires.

Microphone and remote control are separate. The microphone is placed slightly higher for better audibility, and the remote control is located on a common wire.

There is no need to talk too much about the design, you can see everything in the photo. Chocolate chrome looks very impressive, but restrained. Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus will be quite appropriate for a strict formal style.

The headphones come with three sizes of silicone plugs, some foam plugs, a cleaning tool, an adapter for connecting on an airplane, and a stylish case.

TTX

Wearing method	In-ear (earplugs)
Weight	15 g
Colour	Bronze
Accessories included	1 adapter for use in aircraft; 1 cleaning tool; 1 pair of foam pads; 1 pair of silicone ear tips of each size - S, M, L; 1 travel case
Noise suppression	There is
Drivers	Balanced armature dual speakers
Frequency response	10 Hz to 17 kHz
Impedance	28 ohm
Sensitivity	112 dB / mW
Connector type	3.5mm gold-plated 4-pole L-shaped connector. Compatible with the latest smartphones and tablet computers with this connector (CTIA standard)
Length of cable	1.3 m
Cable type	Oxygen-free copper cable

Any more or less high-quality headset now costs around 10 thousand rubles, but it is unlikely that at least one of them can compete with Aurvana In-Ear3 Plus in terms of reliability and sound purity. This is not consumer goods, but the only available category of personal audio equipment capable of acquainting the listener with studio sound quality. Of course, it is difficult to pay 11 thousand even for very cool headphones, but now we have such a ruble.