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0:00 From Russia with Love
2:29 Sounding Open when Not
5:18 The Build
6:51 Sounding Expensive
9:31 The Skinny Pads
12:31 The Solid Pads
14:18 Sound Rant Begins
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Last time I checked 3200 EUR is like 3600 USD. What happened?
@@RafiGish It is closer to $4k
@@RafiGish I asked the googs. Did it lie to me
@@ZReviews You probably asked it backwards and it thought you were trying to convert 3250 USD into EUD.
@@ZReviews You probably asked it backwards and it thought you were trying to convert 3250 USD into EUD.
Kennerton lets you customize the tuning, pads, wood and cables with no extra charge. That's why you didn't see this particular wood on the website
Can you do that with all their models? I have their GH40 and they already look orgasmic with the stock wood cups.
@@upy0ur5 I think so. You should definitely email them
Rognir Dynamic is 1390 Euros...would be amazing to see you hear their flagship dynamic driver
I own that
Love that cable. Love those headphones. Worried about replacement parts.
21:00 : classic Z. 21:58 : I feel as if we were on the brink, one more thing went wrong and Z was going to flip the table, kick the amp stand and burn it all to the ground.
I love it!!
The only Kennertons I've heard are the much more affordable Magni. And I really enjoy them. Such a rich, sweet sound. They've become my portable EDC I take to work. Even though they aren't all that portable. lol
I'm really curious to see how those perforated pads would work on other headphones, because you said it gave the closed back a very open feel to them.
Wow! I am buying them. Now!
I've become a fan!...your reviews are honest and clear, excellent!! May I ask for some advice? I recently bought a portable DAC Astell & Kern SR25 MKII, please name one EIM and one Headphone for use with it. (budget 1000$) Thanks !!!
I just got these last week!
Hey man, thank you for your videos, I'm a huge fan. Listen, I'd like to hear the Razer Nommo Pro before buy them. They seem to be like the most beautiful 2.1 on the market and audio is about beauty as well imo. I remember you saying that on the Edifier Luna's video. Can you manage to get your hands on them somehow for a listen? I would love to hear them out. Thank you, cheers!
Try the Kennerton pads on your hifimans, there should be hifiman adapter clips online. I've heard people say good things with the ECL01 pads.
Hey Zeos I hope you are well. I got a question its gonna be a long one with followup probably. I own Yamaha RX-V375 receiver and I love it. It doesnt got Atmos but it packs a punch. It can do DTS-HD-MA and all sorts of DTS variants. Movies and music sound awesome but what I like the most about it is "Gaming Mode" when using headphones. Thanks to Dolby Headphone you can clearly tell when someone is below or above you it just opens-up soundstage all around and it doent sound like some fake 7.1 usb soundcards that are mixing left and right channel and losses imaging. Unfortunately my headphone out broke and now I've got 2 options, fix it or buy audiophile dac/amp combo or stand alone cos prices for receivers went up by a lot since I bought mine. I know dac/amp gonna be good for music but I'm not sure if those can do DTS, Dolby Headphone as I never owned any. My budget picks are modi/magni, zen dac/can, jds labs atom dac/amp, topping dx3 or maybe mix of modi/zen can. Probably cheaper option will be fixing headphone out on my receiver but Im just tempted to buy something new :)
Been using the Kennerton Thror for about 4 years, I think it's my final headphone
Does Zeos do Plannar Series of KENNERTON?
若有中文字幕就真的太棒了，了解更多帮助更大。
That looks like Stabilized Karelian Birch wood. Kennerton does custom builds and has limited editions.
That cover is to dampen the resonance. That headphone pings and bings like crazy without it. It's a cheap solve, but at least they've addressed the issue.
Audio46 carries Kennerton cans, including these. I don't know if you can order special wood types through them though.
Are these heavy bass tune version or neutral default tune ?
How are these compare with the ZMF Verite Closed?
These vs Verite closed? I think these are better compared to VC and Stellia than LCD5.
I tried kennerton magni (and I suggest you try them too if you will have a chance) and i have same impression - it sound significaly better and have equal if not better sound stage than my own HD600 (in Russia for this moment they cost somewhere same price, as magni). I think going to buy them, it is really whole new level. And even that i know outside Russia and CIS they cost more (600-700 usd i belive compare to 450 in a current moment) - they sure as hell can compete in these and even higher price bracket.
NDH30 better headphones than kennerton rognir? Can you explain your thoughts please?
Did they stop selling this custom wood style? I don’t see it on the site.
The Rognir are nearly $4K so 4 diamonds I own quite a few Kennerton headphones
I think Zeos might have done the conversion backwards they are $3700 usd not $2600.
Haven't watched anything yet but I really really wanted to say that Jocelyn Pook is AMAZING. Z share the word!
Hello boddy I contacted kennerton about the exact model of the Rognir and its color and they told me it was a "dusk" model Rognir "dusk" model appears only dynamic on the internet and planar, I didn't find why?
The Ö in Rögnir is pronounced as "i" in "Bird". Cheers from Sweden.
Hello can you do another gaming build video. your last gaming vid was about 4 year ago. maybe even doing a build for people who are getting into high quality auto. what they might need to get started so they can start experimenting with different headphones and devices. right now im thinking about picking up monolith m1060 with a dac/amp for just casual gaming and computer use. but i would like a closed with the same sounds quality of the monolith open.
LSA HP-2 review?
63 years worth of anime girls!?! Gotta love that.
Love
I've only looked at the thumbnail and my first thought was that looks kind of expensive. Curious to see if I was right
And I was right, 3 seconds in. Edit: Holy f#&!
You definitely did the currency conversion incorrectly. The base model for these are 3250 EUD which translates to roughly 3715 USD. Being that those are a custom model, they more than likely upwards of 4000 USD.
Is Z ok? No video yesterday. Hope is well.
Factory review? Fuck yeah!!!
hello it would be very nice to get an answer from you. i own an audeze lcd x 2021 which amplifier with dac and without dac would you recommend to me it would also be interesting to use walcher battery operated amplifiers for the lcd x Thanks and all the best
I use a 789 and schiit modi. I also have a Loki and a tube pre-amp. I quite like my set up.
Topping E30 L30 stack, or Topping DX3 Pro+
The Rupert Neve RNHP, THX amps are just OK. Pair with a DAC you enjoy.
I used them with the monolith 788 and they sounded great. Well controlled good lows and nice crisp highs. Maybe the k9 pro would work also? But it all depends on your music taste.
@@xyanide1986 all dacs are virtually the same.
Isn't a gemstone missing in the title ?
I love the look of these. I went to order a pair to the US, and paypal gave me some error on international orders and regulations right now? So what the beef with the Ukraine thing means we can't order headphones from Russia?
I got an email from the customer service manager from Kennerton and they’re saying they can only accept bank transfers as payment right now.
In a couple of months some system will probably be designed to get around sanctions. Maybe through some third country
Audio 46 has them
Damn, cheeki breekis know how to make a beautiful headphone.
Zeos, please do a Grado factory tour!
Awesome 👍🏻
He will have a full on cable tantrum in there 😂
@@BrianHodge325 Or he stab the people who decide the cable on Grado 🤣🤣🤣
He needs to bring a few nice cables to that tour, so Grado ppl know how a nice cable looks like.
I bet the spools the cables come on look like those trans-Atlantic cable spools. They get it by the ship load.
Sir, how unuusal Russia have so much respect with things such as mechanical and watchesw. Sure,, it is interesting to see unusual Russia headphones. can't begin to contain the fear of the Price...........LORD Vin.
Pretty sure they've had a look around and realized that, lacking the heavy industrialization, established productions chains, and cheap labor force in parts of China, artisanal products are the way to go. That people are willing to pay a premium for craftsmanship and quality was already a given, just look at Japan and their knives and fountain pens (e.g. Namiki)
graphs = tonality imaging, soundstage, dynamics = technicality Measurements aren't everything but.... Some basics are necessary like a Speaker without a smooth Directivity index simply cannot be calibrated. Its a design flaw. Timbre is different from front and early reflections. Without some objective measurements, any amount of subjective opinions become irrelevant. Industry standards are poor, so i wouldn't blame zeos for not relying on measurements and graphs that don't exist on the product page or manual. i suggest to look at independent authority measurements when available for reference even if its off camera or script. i know it can be daunting to understand what to look at and what matters but a good start is youtube: 2015 presentation at the CIRMMT Floyd Toole - Sound reproduction - art and science/opinions and facts
If a headphone sounds good it sounds good, no? Measurements are going to be used as a support to an opinion or experience when it comes to a product like a headphone. Im not totally against measurements because they can help people see whether or not a product is for them, but thats sort of beside the point
The problem is, it's usually only one graph. At what volume was it made? Is it even the volume I will use the headphones on? What does the graph looks like on low, mid and high volume?! I tested a headphone that is an failed attempt at open back. It sounds pretty decent at low volume but tonality completely falls apart at high volume. I tested a headphone that is fairly neutral at low volume, when you crank it up it sounds like only the low frequencies are turned up. Having only one graph for tonality means still mostly having no clue how it's going to sound.
@@miagi1337 zeos has a very good take on why he doesn't do tier lists. i agree with that reasoning. He compares himself to a control. Although, without a measurable control, its 100% subjective. The idea of scientific method is to make it easier to combat false pattern recognition. That's all there is to science. doesn't matter who is doing the measurements and what follows. Sure, if you have another control, propose it, share the methodology and your experiments results. others will refute or corroborate it which is usually called peer review in scientific journals. Otherwise its your word against mine. Zeos is a smart person, otherwise i wouldn't be here. but there is always room if there is openness. see toole's video, he is a rare one
Thanks for the resource.
@@teachonlywhatiseasy I mostly agree esp. about Tier lists. The problem I have with graphs on headphones is how little data it is. It is just the loudness of isolated frequency over the spectrum. How often do I listen to just one frequency. How would a graph look like where the headphone sweeps thru the frequency with an 86 dB 1 kHz constant signal. How would that compare to another headphone. How is peak pressure. Just that tonality graph is the simple and lazy consideration of data. For example "The HEADPHONE Show" in particular is annoying me, he uses and talks about one measurement to increase his credibility. But to me that is poor, it is like trying to judge a sports car by the basic numbers. The point is, you can judge are race car by numbers resp. data, racing engineers do that, but they go really deep into log data, analysis and compare it with simulation figures. "The HEADPHONE Show" barley scratches the surface and presents himself like he is the audio scientist among audio reviews.
Those look hard as hell
Zeos now you must do the Kennerton Gjallarhorn!
The Kennerton Rognir (planar) is currently my favorite headphone. I really like them with the non-perforated tapered pads. I don't always agree with Zeos, but he is spot on with this review. Oh, except his EUR. to USD conversion. He went the wrong direction. 3250 EUR. is about $3800.00 USD.
In the UK these cost the same as the Elite: £3600.
I don't know what's with your conversions because these are $3800 not $2600
FYI, 3200 euros is not 2600 usd. you have it backwards and these are way above even $3500. they are just below the price of the meze elites.
Speaker wall 2022 please.
Looks like stabilized wood. There’s no stabilized wood ones on the page. Very nice.
It's not stabilized wood. that's natural blue wood. I forget the exact tree's name, though.
вам нужно послушать snorry nm-1 )
Does Anyone know the type of wood that is? and don't say stabilized wood, IT'S NOT STABLIZED WOOD. that's a natural wood grain with blue in it.
Looks like buckeye burl. It can naturally have a blueish hue to it.
man..srsly? A. he mentions it in the video and B. if you had bothered to use the time you needed to write this question for clicking on the kennerton link, you would know it's Bubinga wood.
@@Sporting1210 did you even stop to look up the type of wood you are citing? It's not "Bubinga" wood.
@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks i did. There is even a wiki for it-go figure. OBVIOUSLY and as said in the vid + comments, it's customized in some fashion.
@@Sporting1210 uh... It's an entirely different wood then the one you think it is. Sorry. The wood grain is clearly not the same and the coloring is also inconsistent with the wood type you cited. Aidan is likely correct on the wood species.
Ö is "yo"
26:51 (+/-1sec) xD
Сделай обзор на ещё одни наушники из России: Snorry mod
Hope not. F*k Russia.
Kennerton Rognir vs ZMF Verite Closed
I have both. Totally different tunings. Do you like smooth and organic or precise and punchy?
@@Topophobia I have the VC. I'm curious about the Rognir. Good punch and slam for Hard Rock type genres?
@@Topophobia currently looking for closed back end game. My local shop didn’t have Zmf verite or Rognir. They had everything else. Left loving the focal stellia the most but wish it had a bit more soundstage and bass punch. Would that description match the rognir?
@@ChuckPappas yes Rognir for that. Sorry for the delay, don't get notifications.
@@Topophobia no problem at all thanks for the reply.
Hey Zeos, you do know that EUR > $? So 3.250 EUR is 3.700 $
Absolutely your the best . Have bought so much over the last 6 years with your review as "finale" . ! God bless the truckers in Canada 🇨🇦. Freedom! As we all take it for granted
Ok Im officially worried about Z. He said nothing about taking a break and now hes behind 2 videos.
Zeos, could you please tube more Headphones? Russian Headphone on a Ukrainian Tube? How did you not think of that?
He doesn't do it on planars
@@riseuplight But he could. I do.
Planar are more difficult to tube, so I'd end up using a $4,000 tube amp
ZEOS JUST FUCKING ADMIT THAT THE ZMF AEOLUS WITH UNIVERSE PERFORATED SUEDE PADS IS THE BEST HEADPHONE EVER MADE AND ALL ANYONE WOULD EVER NEED. FUCKING SAY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How does Zeos feel about the Aeolus in 2022?
Keep calm and praise the sun
We need another inexpensive phone that blows peoples minds. 🙃 Personally, I don’t think Koss 40 is worth $40.
its way too expensive if they are not perfect
There is no 'pefect' headphone
@@weetjewatikwil1 agree but rognir is so pricey that I highly doubt it has a chance vs other flagships
@@soulfulfool well it beats DCA Stealth by a long distance.
@@Topophobia your so rich sir that have both?
@@Topophobia Stealth is objectively better though
I can only imagine what kind of hentai you watch with these headphones on.. otherwise great review bro!!
euros are more valuable than dollars so it's $3700
do gaming crap, that'll break the streak of good stuff
Built for suckers. $3,700. “Dear Clients, Important! Read before buying! Due to high demand of Kennerton Rognir model, the crafting may take up 5 weeks.” 😂
I guess you're sheltered by mass produced crap out there- ZMF take longer
Chance of me paying 3 k plus on Russian headphones? Zero
Yeah we probably won’t be getting these anymore. Russia isn’t going so well….
If it's from a communist or former communist country Zeros loves them.... I'm beginning to think he hates democracy
If you consider an oligarchic plutocracy like we have in the United States, a Democratic society. Then I don't know what to tell ya buddy. Unless you are a 1%er in which case I hope your days are numbered. I hope to see a free democracy one day, but we haven't seen one since the golden age of Greece so... No offense meant BTW.
@@mylifeisart if they make good headphones who cares
@@riseuplight Not caring about correct political distinctions or politics is part of the problem. If you don't care about politics, then why comment on an obviously political comment?
@@GREQ Not wanting politics to invade a product review is, in itself a political stance. He's appropriately responding with his own point of view
@@eashley109 That's not a political stance at all. *facepalm*
Fak Russia
Well we should direct our aggression to the big P man and not some headphone maker that has no sway on political and wartime decisions.
@@ZReviews These are those "that have no sway on political and wartime decisions” down there in the field, who are mass-killing civilians, raping women and girls, and annihilating a neighbour country. The flesh & bones average people, like that headphone maker.
Looks nice, but I do not want to buy anything from Putin.
Dude, I'm sure that these guys who made this earphones doesn't like Putin also
I mean by this logic you shouldn't buy american if don't like the president? I think we should embrace the audio enthusiast community in Russia and everywhere else.
I'm pretty sure that this headphones are not made by Putin.
What does propaganda do
@@RadinoSka It's not so funny when you know Russian and English. On both countries you can hear something like that.