LAND OF OPEN GLORY

Open-back headphones can provide a stirring solo listening experience. Here are four of our favourite pairs

For a more thorough explanation of the differences between open and closed-back designs, and a guide to which is best for you, turn to page 66 right now. But right here we are focusing on open-back headphones, and present four of our favourite pairs for your consideration. An open-back pair of headphones doesn’t have an enclosure behind its drivers, which means that sound is fired both towards and away from the listener’s ears. This has advantages in producing a much more dynamically expressive and generally more emotive sound than their closed-back cousins, with a clearer, more revealing sound that is also usually more spacious. The downside is that they leak sound as a result of not having that enclosure, and also have next to no isolation from environmental noises. In…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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