Music to your ears

RHA has launched its new T20i flagship in-ear headphone that has premium build quality and excellent sound reproduction.

The headphone, with deep bass, won the Red Dot design award in 2015. It uses DualCoil technology that allows it to deliver high-resolution audio with clarity. 

The headphone has specially-engineered diaphragms and ring-shaped magnets along with an outer voice coil to produce upper mid tones and treble, while its inner voice coil produces bass and lower mid tones. As a result, the T20i can produce deep bass and boost mid and high tones.

The T20i is built for all types of music thanks to its changeable tuning filters. The headphone comes with three filters – reference filters for all genres of music, treble filters for jazz, acoustic and classical music and bass filters for hip-hop, dance, and heavy rock music.

You can simply unscrew the default or reference tuning filters and replace them with one of the two alternative pairs to suit your taste in music.

The headphone is made of ergonomically designed stainless steel. RHA said the stainless steel housing produces outstanding sound and durability. As part of the manufacturing, the stainless steel is heated to 1,300 degree Celsius to increase density and decrease the size, then the T20I’s housings is finished by hand polishing.

RHA’s flagship model is designed to be worn with the cable over the ear for a comfortable, secure fit. To add to its high specification, the T20i uses reinforced copper cable with a gold-plated 3.5mm jack. It also comes with a remote unit and microphone that supports iOS devices.

During the test, the remote was effective in controlling the song playback with an iPad Pro. The remote increases or decreases volume, allows play or pause as well as backwards or forwards skip capability.

When used on the Sony NW-A25 Walkman hi-res audio player the T20i produced impressive music quality. For example, the jamming of the pianist, drummer, saxophonist and the cello player could be heard clearly on the hi-res audio version of “Blue Rondo a la Turk” by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. The bass sound of the cello sounded deep and powerful and the cymbal resonated while the saxophone sounded very real. 

The RHA T20i retails for Bt10,490. The package comes with two extra tuning filters with a holder, six pairs of dual density ear tips, two pairs of double flange ear tips, two pairs of memory foam ear tips, a premium carrying case and a clothing clip.

 

Key Specs

- Drivers: DualCoil Dynamic

- Frequency range: 16-40,000Hz

- Impedance: 16 ohms

- Sensitivity: 90dB

- Rated/max power: 2/5mW

- Weight: 39g

- Cable: 1.35m, OFC

- Jack: 3.5mm, gold plated