Asus Theta Electret

Rare innovation in this area – but is it worth the price?

Ben Mansill

It’s exceedingly rare that any company actually innovates and delivers a gaming headset that is genuinely interesting. Audeze shook things up a year ago with its planar-powered Mobius, which HyperX then cloned under license as the Cloud Obit. Adata innovated just recently with its hybrid electrostatic plus traditional speaker XPG Precogs. And Asus has just become the third company to ever release gaming headphones that actually advance things, with its new and very premium Theta Electret. Electret drivers are somewhat similar to planar and are closely related to electrostatic drivers – in that the sound is generated by a single electrically-charged sheet of material. Unlike electrostatic, electret do not require an external power source. But you will need a good audio source/ DAC to power these effectively. While the impedance…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2020

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