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Nuraphone Wireless Bluetooth Headphones

Name: Nuraphone Wireless Bluetooth Headphones
Brand: Nuraphone
SKU: nuraphone-wireless-bluetooth-headphones
Price: 319.99 USD
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

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Applauded by Mashable, Engadget, TechCrunch, Wired, and many others, the Nuraphone is an innovative Bluetooth headphone that automatically learns from and adapts to your hearing. The hybrid Inova architecture features IEMs inside each ear cup, offering excellent sound isolation with no perceivable leakage Read More

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RudolfMP

Feb 22, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PRY00PI74o This is the only serious review of the Nuraphone. The truth is it's a crap overhyped headphone. I know cause I own one.

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RudolfMP

Feb 24, 2019

Literally?

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ramblingenzyme

Feb 23, 2019

I did a demo of these and they were interesting but good lord do I not want earbuds in my ears if I'm wearing over ear headphones. I also looked up alternatives and found an article saying the quick hearing test used to create the personalised hearing profiles has found pretty much no real use outside of determining whether newborn babies are deaf or not.

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Showpan

Feb 25, 2019

ramblingenzymeAlso there's no way of knowing if the technology was even implemented properly or was even implemented in the headphone at all.

Atomic_Kasper

Feb 8, 2021

Showpannot a study but in my experience of testing a pair I had a while ago that I returned due to discomfort that the test definitely did something cos my personalization sounded great to me but awful to others and the same applied the other way round when personalized to others, completely intend to get anything they make after this if they solve the comfort without losing the audio.

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RayF

22216

Feb 23, 2019

Aside from the lukewarm reviews, what do you imagine happens to all the units sold at full price on Nuraphone's website, that end up being returned within the 30-day window--for whatever reason? Maybe they're repackaged and sold at a discount on...some other website?

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jonRock

150

Feb 27, 2019

RayFThis is why Massdrop scares me.

RayF

22216

Feb 27, 2019

jonRockWell, as I've mentioned elsewhere on this site, I've never had an unresolved issue with any MD purchase, however, as "M" always tells 007--"Trust no one!"

Chatto

Feb 22, 2019

I got them when they were on Kickstarter, and when they arrived, I had a great couple of weeks showing them off to get people to go wow. The personal hearing profile is a good gimmick, the immersion is fun (especially for movies, Baby Driver got played a lot), and it was before I started to get into headphones, so I liked the sound. But..... Having the hearing profile only work depending on how I was listening (which wire I was using, Bluetooth, whatever, I never really worked it out, and used to just use it with my phone, because I could access the user app), and having to make sure it was always charged up through the proprietary charging cable, meant that once I'd showed it off, it was too much hassle to use, when I could just throw on some Sennheisers, fostex, 1Mores, Oppos, AKGs, focals etc and enjoy their personality without any preparation. They're a great idea, and soooo close to being really good, but they sit at the bottom of my pile, and I haven't used them for over a year.

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Dyrone

Feb 28, 2019

Just curious, what headphones do you use on a daily basis without the whole amp setup things. I do live in Melbourne so i'll hold you to it

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Chatto

Feb 28, 2019

DyroneI swap between focal elex, fostex th-x00s (ebony and purple heart), brainwavz Alara, hd6xx, 1more triple driver over ears,and Oppo pm3. I have a problem. Waiting for my verum ones to arrive from Ukraine,and I swear that's it. Cool that you live in Melbourne. If you want to try your luck on the eBay auctions, go for it. I think nura is in Brunswick, so it might be worth your while seeing whether you can try them. Anyway, let me know what you want to do, and know that it's a definite option. Cheers ✌️

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mediki1l

Feb 22, 2019

Bought these and sold them on, not worth the price. The haptic motor is cool for a while. The personalised audio is fine though it doesn't add any depth to the music. The sound quality is not good. Senn momentums are better at this price point.

Helpbot

310

Feb 22, 2019

mediki1lThose momentums can easily be found for less as well

si1entstill

Feb 22, 2019

Yeah, I have to agree with the sentiment that these are decent sounding headphones with some nice features, but they are a bit more "form" than "function." First, let me preface this by saying that I am not a bass-head. I prefer a pretty flat profile, so I don't get much out of the "immersive mode" (feeling my head shake doesn't improve my listening experience). Achieving a proper profile on these took me 3 or 4 tries (part of me questions the whole premise of EQ-ing drivers to suit the shape of your inner-ear) but once I had, these sounded decent for a noise isolating, closed backed headphone. But only decent. Admittedly, I don't currently own any other noise isolating headphones, so these comparisons may not be completely fair, but... After extensive A/B-ing against a pair of M220s, I honestly think I get better definition and soundstage out of the M220s. I feel that I really notice some of the weird frequency manipulation that is happening with the nuraphones when doing this comparison. I'm probably hyper sensitive to it, but I don't want a variable EQ sitting between me and my sound source. For fun, I compared these against a pair of monk earbuds as well ( - and again, not a fair comparison), but in a quiet environment, I'd say the Monks perform almost identically from the low-mids upwards. They are also far more comfortable and 1/50th of the price. Finally, a comparison against a pair of k550s was probably my most fair. For me, it is no contest. The K550s absolutely decimate these things across the entire spectrum. In a super noisy environment, the extra isolation on the nuraphones may be nice, but it would have to be quite noisy, and I would need to be listening to some pretty reserved material to make the switch worth it. So, if you really need active noise isolation, these might be an option, but if you just want something closed backed, I'd opt for k550s or HD598s. Bass heads may have a slightly different perspective, but I would have to imagine there are better options out there.

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Goldern

Feb 24, 2019

si1entstillDt 770 Beyerdynamic has a killer bass

ChaosFtw

Feb 22, 2019

I own one and my experience with them is mixed but favourable. I'll list a few notes below.

The build is extremely good, but they are fairly heavy so if you drop them on hard surfaces there may be cosmetic damage (I believe this applies to most headphones anyway).
They are most comfortable when you are sitting down or not moving much, ie. walking with them will feel irritating after a while.
I found that the best way to get the right sound out of them was to create the profile in a dead silent room, it made the bass less muddy/boomy, and enabled me to slide "Immersion Mode" further to the right. (Immersion Mode is the slider in the Nuraphone app which controls the bass drivers' intensity)
The detail on this set is really good, I found texture in the mid and high notes on some music I hadn't heard in the other sets that I owned at that time (I had the HD650, DT 770 80ohms, B&O H6 among many others) .
The bass is better if you don't add too much or too less immersion, I had to find the right amount to be satisfied with them, although sometimes cranking up the bass on specific songs is fun.
The sound is best when using APTX HD or LL, using cables with these wasn't great in my opinion.
Using USB cable kept your sound profile but disabled the buttons on the headphones, making them semi-analog.
Using the 3.5mm cable into an amplifier made it fully analog but turned off your sound profile. This means that the headphones will not use your customised profile and Immersion Mode will be turned off when using this cable.
Battery life is really good, can last weeks with normal use (ie. commuting), if you listened to it all day intermittently it would last you a few days at least.

Please note I did this many months ago so if any firmware updates changed something my information may be out of date. I honestly think that these are best suited primarily for commuters. It could also be good for people who want to enjoy music wirelessly at home or in an office, using their phones or DAPs with bluetooth, I will not recommend this unless you have the option for sending it back in case you don't like them, since I do respect the opinions of others and I take note of people who did not have a positive experience with them. For me, however, I use a Sony MDR-Z1R primarily when I am at home, but I use these for travelling. Hope this helped.

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DenisM

Feb 22, 2019

I tried these just recently for a few days. They sound good with that noise isolation. You can crank everything to max, and nobody around would hear it. The social mode was very useful. I would have kept them if it weren't for a reason I'll explain at the end. Pros:

They look beautiful
Case was designed for convenience
App is smooth and consistent
Like bass? Here you go, a built in bass button to drown the crap out of your music
4 different touch gestures. tap once. tap twice.
They sound good, not amazing. Want some crazy audiophile lingo? Go to head-fi, but bring a dictionary.

Some cons:

They don't sound like $400 earphones for me. They sound less with additional features.
Trying to adjust the headband activates the touch controls
Once you use wired(USB), no touch controls or any ability to adjust the settings
Can't charge and use Bluetooth at the same time
Strong smell out of the package. I mean, it was literally shrink wrapped to hold that smell all the way to you.

And DON'T BUY THESE IN MASSDROP if you haven't tried them yet

for some unfortunate folks with different anatomy(like me), those earpieces will hurt. You can't send them back remember? They don't come included with different tips. And that's just ridiculous. I heard you could ask for them. No man, I don't want to go through all that effort for something that should have been included.