The world’s most costly energetic noise cancelling headphones? As not too long ago as December 2021, we’d have pointed our fingers on the Apple AirPods Max which in Germany promote for €629. Nonetheless, in January 2022, Mark Levinson kicked open the high-end Bluetooth headphone floodgates with the No. 5909 (€999, podcast assessment right here). Later that 12 months, Bowers & Wilkins adopted go well with with the PX8 (€699, video assessment right here), simply after Focal introduced the Bathys (€799, video assessment right here). Flying underneath this commentator’s Munich Excessive-Finish radar in Could 2022 was German producer T+A whose Solitaire T could possibly be used as an ANC headphone wirelessly by way of Bluetooth (or wired by way of USB) and as an all-analogue passive headphone with no battery energy required. Worth? €1300.
On the time of writing, the Solitaire T will not be the costliest Bluetooth headphones on the planet – that title goes to Audio Technica – however they are the costliest energetic noise-cancelling headphones you should buy proper now. And the Mark Levinson are the second most costly.
With the No. 5909 nonetheless on deck right here in Berlin, a side-by-side comparability introduced itself. Not only a day of quick-fire A/B testing however a longer-term comparability: I’ve spent the final three months going backwards and forwards between the Solitaire T and the No. 5909 and this video brings collectively my findings.
Oh — a phrase on T+A pronunciation. Individuals say “Tea Plus Ayy” (or “Tea And Ayyy”). Germans say “Tay Plooss Ahhh”.
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T+A Solitaire T
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Mark Levinson No. 5909
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Shanling M3 Extremely
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