Verified
Nothing to charge
I have thrown this in a bag for a year and it has never once needed anything from me.
Engineering
Every failure we log against portable headphones is electronic: a battery that will not hold, a radio that will not pair, a firmware update that changes the tuning under the owner. The TOUR removes all three by removing the electronics. It is a 38mm driver in a folding magnesium yoke, terminated in a plain 3.5mm jack, and it will still work in fifteen years because there is nothing in it that expires. The tuning tracks the reference curve to within 2dB, with a deliberate half-decibel lift at 4kHz to hold speech intelligibility over cabin noise, which is the one concession the use case earns.
Specification
Acoustics
- Driver
- 38mm mylar-composite dome
- Frequency response
- 20Hz – 20kHz, ±2dB
- Impedance
- 26Ω
- Sensitivity
- 106dB / mW
- Passive isolation
- −22dB at 1kHz
Build
- Yoke
- Forged magnesium, folding
- Folded volume
- 1.4 litres
- Mass
- 196g
- Electronics
- None
- Replaceable parts
- 7
NT · Wired, folded, done
NOVA TOUR
A passive wired reference for travel. No battery, no firmware, no pairing — a cable and a folding yoke.
EUR 279
In stock — dispatched within 48 hours
In the box
- NOVA TOUR headphone
- 1.2m OFC cable with inline microphone
- 6.35mm screw adapter
- Folded case, recycled felt
Free shipping over EUR 250. Two-year warranty, and replacement parts available at cost for as long as the product is in the catalogue.
Owners
Reviews
4.5 / 5 · 2
- Verified
Isolation is passive, and that is fine
It will not cancel an engine, but it does not need a battery either. Straight trade, clearly explained.
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