The headphones from XBA Series are equipped
with 2-3 Balanced Amateur Drivers and well-compatibly designed for devices
running with iOS.
Continue the success of the XBA series first
edition which were introduced nearly a year ago, Sony continues to announce the
new collection which also uses Balanced Amateur Driver but has a more
attractive price and fascinating designed look.
Sony
XBA-10 In-ear (Silver) Earphones
The new collection introduced this time
includes 4 products with an in-turn name of XBA-10, XBA-20, XBA-30, XBA-40, and
4 products with same code but have the suffix “iP” ( such as XBA-10iP,
XBA-20iP...) which will reach toward the iPhone, iPad, iPod users. The users
can choose one from 2 different color versions for each model, which is fresh
yellow or silver.
XBA-20
is equipped with dual Balanced Amateur Drivers.
The same as XBA-Series headphones which
were introduced, these new sets of headphones have the in-ear design with the
number of driver from 1, 2, 3 to 4 Balanced Amateur Drivers in correlation with
the product codes. Particularly, Sony XBA-10 only uses one Balanced Amateur
Driver, whereas Sony XBA-40 is equipped with 4 Balanced Amateur Drivers in each
woofer.
Sony
XBA-30 is equipped with 3 Balanced Amateur Drivers.
The features of Balanced Amateur Drivers
are that the size of the design is equal to a quarter of a 13.5 Dynamic driver
which is usually used by Sony, but have higher vibration level and the ability
of recreating sound which is much realer. It is thanks to the compact design
that Sony can add 2, 3 to 4 Balanced Amateur Drivers into the same woofer which
supports to recreate a frequency range in order to increase the level of detail
for sound.
Sony
XBA-40 In-ear (Silver) Earphones
Besides, this new collection also uses
“Double Layered Housing” design (temporary translated as dual chamber system)
including a plastic cover to resist outside vibration and a part of the special
metal frame inside to store Balanced Amateur Driver.
Having
the same design as XBA-40 model, but model with “iP” suffix like Sony XBA-40iP
is equipped with the remote control right on the signal cable.
Sony XBA-20, Sony XBA-30 and Sony XBA-40
support the frequency range from 4 Hz to 25.000Hz. The Sony XBA-10 model can
only meet the range from 5 HZ to 25000 Hz. All the new XBA-Series headphones
introduced by Sony this time is equipped with signal cable (1.2 m long) made
from pure copper so as to increase the transmission capacity. As for the model
with “iP” suffix right after the product code, they are equipped with remote
control on the cable which is well compatible with devices from the “Apple”
house.
