Hi Dave,
99 exciting pages on the Kennerton thread, assuredly ...
What beautiful photos taken by you to show the beauty of these headphones Kennerton ...
Otherwise, on the french forum,
the Kennerton Tror made a great impression in France during the Parisian expo of the Sound Days, last week-end.
I think everyone agrees that the Tror goes further than the Odin on almost all the audio criteria, not to mention its reduced weight of 200 g compared to the Odin.
Tror sound is considered as more just for the tone (and timbre) than that of the Odin; more straight, more extended at the ends of the frequency band; more airy ; it is more resolved (nb: see the Yacine image comparison between a Full HD (Odin) and 4K HDR (Tror) image), with a better sound scene (more precise and aerated than that of the Odin); however the less warm character and the very "straight" and rigorous sound of the Tror Vs odin, will make the Tror will have a less charming sound and also less fun than the Odin.
According to Kennerton's engineers (on the russian forum), Kennerton Tror's new High tech driver, with its lighter frame and new lighter "honeycomb" membrane, would give a colder (less warm), more precise and airy sound than the Odin.
The frequency response (FR) of the Tror would be also very close to the ideal target response.
Otherwise, compared to the Hifiman Susvara, the Kennerton Tror would have a more balanced and homogeneous tone than that of the Susvara, and also less ethereal (nb: both headphones have been used on the same amp, the Viva Egoista 845 providing 15 Watts per channel (on a load of 50 Ohm?)).
The Tror is very much easier to drive than the Susvara; it gives a wonderful sound (just like the Odin) with the Viva Egoista 2A3 which only provides 3 Watts per channel ; Viva 2A3 amp which is a priori not able to correctly drive the Susvara (because not enough power and especially of gain in Volts).
Dave, I sincerely wish you the opportunity to upgrade one of your two Odin mk2 with the drivers of the Tror.
As for me, who has currently only one Odin headphones (Odin mk2 in Karelian birch), because I gave my first Odin mk1 to my elder brother, who uses it as an monitoring headphone to play on numerical Piano; well, I think I will have to buy a Tror in 2018 to be a companionship for my lovely Odin Mk2, and to open the listening field to the genre of classical music, especially for the listening of the classical piano (from Bach to Debussy, passing by Mozart and Schumann) that I adore to listen.
