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beyerdynamic Amiron Home

Don’t worry too much about the ‘Home’ part of Beyerdynamic’s Amiron Home. It’s there to distinguish these headphones from the Beyerdynamic Amiron Wireless, which is a powered and closed design which is, as the name suggests, Bluetooth connected. Whereas these are passive, wired — and open, likely why they have the ‘Home’ tag.

They use a dynamic driver with what Beyerdynamic calls ‘optimised tesla technology’. Apparently that means “a much stronger magnetic field than standard headphones”. Apart from anything else, that should result in greater control of the driver cone.

However that works, the headphones are rated at 250-ohms impedance, which is rather higher than the norm these days. That suggests best operation

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