Sony MDR-Z1R

View online review whf.cm/MDR_Z1R £1649 As is Sony’s way, there is little exuberance in the design of the MDR-Z1R. If you’re expecting overtly luxurious touches or extravagant styling, look elsewhere. What do you get, though, is obsessive attention to detail. The MDR-Z1Rs use a large and rather unusual dynamic driver. This unit has a two-piece 70mm diaphragm made up of a magnesium dome sitting in the middle of an aluminium-coated liquid crystal polymer ring. The result is an impressive claimed frequency response that extends to 120kHz. The size of the driver was chosen to give the headphones’ sound the dispersion Sony’s engineers wanted, as well as give the presentation the kind of authority only a larger driver can bring. Its motor system uses a powerful, high grade Neodymium magnet, which has…

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