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Sony MDR-Z1R

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£1649

As is Sony’s way, there is little exuberance in the design of the MDR-Z1R. If you’re expecting overtly luxurious touches or extravagant styling, look elsewhere. What do you get, though, is obsessive attention to detail.

The MDR-Z1Rs use a large and rather unusual dynamic driver. This unit has a two-piece 70mm diaphragm made up of a magnesium dome sitting in the middle of an aluminium-coated liquid crystal polymer ring. The result is an impressive claimed frequency response that extends to

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