KBear Aurora takes a bow!
The Aurora have arrived, Pure Elegance, to borrow
@Poganin's description.
They look as good in hand as they appear in photographs. Of course, the downside to that is they attract fingerprints, even from a distance, to exaggerate the point.
The mid size package is well appointed, with accessories, and a 6 strand sky blue cable, to match the accents on the earpieces, nice cable but not entirely malleable. The cable is two-pin to 3.5mm plug. A KBear mid-brown faux leather hard case, which I adore, and a few eartips.
Earpieces are a medium size, similar to the KBear Diamond and the Believe in size but the Aurora have a better, more ergonomic, design, in my view.
The earpieces have two vents, one on the inner part and one next to the face plate, hopefully that would ease, and maybe even eliminate, driver flex issues for some.
Initial impressions of the sound
Caveat:
I have not burnt them in and spent a maximum of 20 minutes listening to three tracks on them, so these early impressions are not to be relied on as definitive.
I would say the Aurora, are W shape, with nice natural tone as you would expect from dynamic drivers.
They have oddles of sub-bass. Mid-bass is held back a bit, but appropriate and sufficient from my point of view. Overall bass is tight, although I am more into natural decay, a long natural tail for bass notes, rather than perceived speed but mine is to report what I hear, so, no bass bleed, to my ears....early days.
Mids have quite good body, in tone, but slightly, only slightly, held back in relation to the bass and treble in relative volume. The voices and instruments I heard in the midrange were whole and full but not excessively forward.
Treble is distinct, nothing hidden and gives the early impression of being incredibly detailed and shimmery. Treble is within my tolerance threshold. I accept my tolerance threshold might be higher than others, but again until after burn-in one cannot tell where the Aurora will settle.
The Aurora appear to be quite revealing across the frequency spectrum, clearly with the bass that manifests itself as defined bass notes and texture, while with the mids and highs, you get clarity and detail retrieval. The effect is a highly resolving set, or so it appears at this stage.
I am currently reviewing a $700 single dynamic set, and as an early observation, the Aurora resolution is approximately 70% there, at a considerably lower price. Note, Caveat applies!
