#Moondrop aria driver

Honestly, it looks like a rather elegant piece of chocolate, something you unwrap and stuff yourself with a coffee after your Xmas dinner.Īnd yet, it is anything but delicate with robust and almost tank-like quality. Aesthetics are completed with a blend of a matte black metal spray and some judicious use of thin curvy lines that stretch over the faceplate. The Aria design consists of a 3-piece CNC carved and metal injected molded shell. The Aria is rated at 32Ω with a sensitivity of 122dB, which should be easily driven by most portable sources.

#Moondrop aria driver

The driver construction is capped off with a redesigned HF waveguide to ensure any improved HF response from the new driver diaphragm is as smooth and distortion-free as possible. Where the Aria differs from the Starfield is in the composition of the diaphragm which is a 10mm LCP (Liquid Crystal Polymer) liquid crystal diaphragm which is a material used by the likes of Sony in some of their headphones for an enhanced HF response. Moondrop has made these coils central to their lower-tier lineup claiming an improved transient response and dynamic range in the transducer performance. Starfield users might also quickly spot the same lightweight Japanese-made Daikoku CCAW voice coils inside the Aria. The Moondrop Aria is a single 10mm dynamic driver universal monitor featuring the same dual brass-plated inner cavity and a neodymium N52 magnetic circuit. The new Moondrop Aria is still very much their entry-level offering at $79.99, but this time around it pulls from a lot of their newer technology in the market from the likes of the more expensive Starfield. The older version ran from 2018 but just for a few months so user experience outside of the Chinese domestic market might be a bit sparse. The Moondrop Aria is not so much a MKII with some tweaks but rather it is being pitched as an entirely new IEM. It came, it left and now it has reappeared apparently.