Aventho Wireless

World's Best Bluetooth Headphones MADE‑IN‑GERMANY

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Aventho Wireless

beyerdynamic Aventho Wireless (Bluetooth or 3.5mm cord, 8½ oz./242g, $379). bigger. I'd get mine at Adorama, at Amazon in brown as seen here or at Amazon in black or used at eBay (about $175 if you know How to Win at eBay). Optional 718424 hard case.

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These beyerdynamic Aventho Wireless are the best-sounding Bluetooth headphones I've ever heard. These Aventho sound exactly like my superb professional DT 1350 corded headphones, and they add Bluetooth and a remote control touch pad on the right earcup.

Unlike any other Bluetooth headphones these offer the pleasure of distinction that only comes from owning a genuine German‑made luxury product like a Porsche Turbo or LEICA M. Of course they cost more than generic headphones like Bose.

These offer immaculate sound quality with a fluid midrange, shimmering, glistening highs and bottomless bass.

These closed on-the-ear headphones are the genuine MADE IN GERMANY article from one of the world's oldest and best makers of professional headphones for almost 100 years; these aren't rubbish from China.

I prefer these to everything else, especially over the Sennheiser HD800 and AKG K812 because these Aventho have smoother response and deeper bass.

These run forever on a charge; I still had 40% charge after using them for four weeks. They charge via USB.

These are small, fold for travel, isolate well and are also very comfortable for hours and hours, with softer pads than the DT 1350.

My exotic STAX OMEGA SR-009 are more clinically accurate because the STAX are designed for laboratory-flat deep bass, while most headphones like these beyerdynamics have bass better compensated for the fact that we hear the deepest bass with our entire bodies, which we can't do with headphones. The STAX are accurate, but these beyerdynamics are more fun, and cost less than 10% of what the SR-009 cost.

These Aventho offer grade-one sound for serious home listening of every kind of music, especially symphonic and choral music that's so hard to reproduce naturally with anything other than exotic headphones, and of course they're super-portable for use anywhere.

There is an app which performs its own hearing test and attempts to equalize these for even more optimized sound. It's free and optional, so try it and see if you like the effect. Once set-up with the app on one device, the Aventho seem to retain whatever settings you've made when used on regular Bluetooth connections to anything else.

 

Good

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Smooth, detailed natural sound.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Smooth, tight, unboosted, non-resonant and ultra-deep non-boomy bass. Every note is distinct, and response goes below any other dynamic headphone I've heard other than the sonically identical DT-1350.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Cord included for conventional battery-free use — but if you don't use Bluetooth you can get the same performance for half the price in the corded-only DT-1350.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Sounds just as good corded without battery power. These headphones use superior drivers that don't need any electronic compensation like Bose and every other Bluetooth headphone.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Built-in amplifier is quiet, sounds great and can play very loud if you want.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Touch-panel remote control on the right earcup.

green ball icon © KenRockwell.com Battery charge seems to last forever.

 

Bad

red ball icon © KenRockwell.com Nothing, other than that the built-in microphone for phone calls isn't that clear, but you don't get headphones this good to be interrupted by phone calls!

red ball icon © KenRockwell.com Touch panel is only as large as the tiny earpiece, which is so small that it's not easy to use. Having a few regular buttons instead would be easier to use. The touchpad on the Amiron Wireless is much larger and easier to use.

 

Missing

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com No firm case as included with the DT 1350; just a cloth sack.

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com No active noise cancellation; these are Hi-Fi headphones with traditional closed earpieces.

gray ball icon © KenRockwell.com No ¼″ cord adapter —  so?

 

Specifications

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Type

Aventho Wireless

Aventho Wireless left driver, and remote touch control on back of right driver. bigger.

Sealed on-ear dynamic headphones.

"Tesla" drivers.

Earcups pivot ±90º.

Replaceable pads.

 

Frequency Response

10 ~ 40,000 Hz.

 

Maximum THD

0.3% at 500 Hz.

 

Bluetooth

Version 4.2.

2.4000 – 2.4835 GHz.

10mW maximum transmit power.

Power Class 2.0.

Profiles: HSP, HFP, A2DP, AVRC and GAVDP

Codecs: aptX, aptX HD, AAC and SBC.

Range: 10 meters (30 feet).

 

Corded Impedance

32 Ω.

 

Corded Sensitivity

Rated 105 dB SPL at 1 mW at 500 Hz.

 

Corded Maximum Power Input

100 mW.

 

Cords

Detachable straight, thin 4-foot (1.2m) cord with 3.5mm plug.

 

Battery & Power

> 30 hours run time.

2 hour charge time.

1,050 mAh battery.

Charges via USB-C.

 

Quality

MADE IN GERMANY.

 

Weight

8.530 oz. (241.8g) without cord, actual measueed weight, 12/2020.

Rated 8.4 oz. (238g) without cord, 2018.

 

Environment

Operating temperature: 0 to 40 °C.

Charging temperature: 10 to 40 °C.

 

Included

Aventho Wireless

Aventho Wireless included sack and goodies. bigger.

Headphones.

USB-A to USB-C charging cord.

3.5mm cord.

Soft drawstring sack.

 

Introduced

2017.

 

Order Numbers

Brown (shown here): 717.851.

Black: 717.440.

 

Price, USA

November 2021

$379 at Adorama.

Varies at Amazon in brown and at Amazon in black.

About $175 used at eBay if you know How to Win at eBay.

Optional 718424 hard case: $32.50.

 

December 2020

$386 in brown or $401 in black, or about $175 used if you know How to Win at eBay.

 

December 2018

About $300.

 

February 2018 ~ April 2018

$449.

Aventho Wireless

Aventho Wireless box. bigger.

 

Aventho Wireless

Aventho Wireless box back. bigger.

 

Aventho Wireless

Aventho Wireless box bottom. bigger.

 

Performance

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Remote Control   Sensitivity   Noise

Isolation   Leakage   Mechanical Quality

Lip Sync   Battery & Power   App

 

Overall

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These are the best sounding Bluetooth headphones I've heard. They sound as good as the very best corded headphones, they are super comfy, portable and convenient.

These are closed headphones with excellent isolation, and sound better than open headphones. I suspect this is because of the tiny earcups which are so small that any resonances are well above the audible band and easy to damp completely.

 

Sound

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The Aventho have nothing but smooth and natural sound. I can listen to these forever; there's nothing out of place. Nothing is emphasized and the bass is solid, deep and unboomy.

The sound is clean, natural open and detailed, with a perfect warm balance.

The Aventho have flawless Grade One sound: I can enjoy complex choral and symphonic works for hours and hours. These have none of the coloration of lesser headphones that sound OK for pop music or for live monitoring, but can't cut it like these can for enjoying live, natural music. They're not peaky; they're smooth, clear and detailed. You’re at the concert hall.

Voices are smooth and liquid; they're right in front of you.

 

Bass

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Bass is solid! Fundamentals sing true; they're not covered up by the boominess that usually hides fundamentals on most headphones.

It's the deepest I've heard along with the DT 1350; the best Audeze aren't any better.

The bass is tight, deep and articulate. It's nothing like most headphones or speakers which are usually boomy to impress the innocent; these have no boom which lets us hear all the deepest bass below.

The deepest bass is well compensated, and it's bottomless. It's perfect for compensating the fact that our bodies, not our ears, hear most of the deepest bass.

Bass is solid to 14 Hz, even over Bluetooth This is extraordinary.

 

Ergonomics

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The voice that tells us about the headphones' status is a beautiful British girl. Need I say more? It's not the frumpy lady who voices the Bose headphones. This is class!

The soft memory-foam padded earpieces have plenty of freedom to move so they sit perfectly on top of your ears. The sound and the comfort make it easy to enjoy the Aventho for hours and hours. You'll not want to take them off.

The Aventho stay on your head as you move around. They stay on your head around the house, but they're not for running — you can shake them off if you move too fast and they don't let you hear sounds around you. You'll hear rumbling if you walk with them on, like any other sealed headphones.

Other than the remote control, there's but one button and one LED for everything. The good news is that this one button always knows what you want to do and does it.

On my iPhone X and iPad Pro, Bluetooth reconnects automatically when turned back on. Just tap the remote control and it restarts your music or Netflix movie right where you left off. Bravo!

 

Remote Control

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You tap and slide your finger on the right earpiece to control everything other than power.

One or two taps starts or stops the music or answers calls.

Sliding up or down controls the volume.

Tapping left or right, or sliding your finger left or right, controls playback.

See Usage for more.

 

Sensitivity

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These are sensitive enough to play louder than conventional corded headphones with an iOS device.

These are about 5dB more sensitive at the same volume setting over Bluetooth in iOS than my DT 1350 corded headphones are through the 3.5mm connector.

I'll set the volume about halfway up for music, and at about 3/8 for movies. They easily play at ear-splitting levels.

 

Self-Noise

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All self-powered, Bluetooth or noise-canceling headphones and speakers have some residual noise from their own internal electronics.

The noise in these headphones is minimal, maybe equivalent to about 15-25 dB SPL, which can be as little as a recording studio microphone. If you know what to listen for you may be able to hear this in a quiet room with no music playing, but you won't hear it when any program is there. If you can hear it with the music stopped, it's an electonic running noise.

Better than other headphones, if this bothers you, use the cord, with which you still get the same flawless audio quality.

This is better performance than noise-canceling headphones like the Bose QC-35.

 

Isolation

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These are conventional closed headphones with about the same isolation as other closed headphones.

These are not active noise canceling (ANC) headphones. These are better for use in normal environments where they give much better quality and quieter self-noise levels than ANC headphones. These aren't the best for use on airplanes or very noisy environments where ANC headphones shine.

 

Leakage

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There is no leakage. You can make yourself deaf and the person next to you won't hear anything.

 

Mechanical Quality

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These are first-class MADE IN GERMANY headphones. They are all metal, with plastic ear cups.

The padding material feels great. These feel synthetic, which usually lasts longer than real leather which gets dry over time.

 

Lip Sync

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A dirty secret about Bluetooth and ANC headphones is that there is some audio time delay in their encoding, decoding and processing, which can lead to a loss of lip sync.

I found minimal lip sync error, better than ANC headphones which use a lot more processing.

 

Battery & Power

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These are easy: a 2-hour charge gives me enough power for four weeks of use, after which I still have 40% charge. I have no idea how long they'd run if I let them run all the way down.

With great battery life like this the only problem will be if you get so used to endless power that you forget to charge them before a long trip. No problem, they recharge via any USB-C cord, which seems to be common worldwide.

The British girl reads the power level every time you turn them on. She reads 90%, 80%, 60% and 40%, and I've never run them lower. I wish she read the power at turn-off, but she doesn't.

My 2018 Aventho draw 450mA at 40% and 400mA at 60% as they charge. My 2020 sample draws 200mA at 80% and 4mA at 100% as a trickle.

 

App

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You don't need the app at all. Everything works great without it if you don't want to bother.

beyerdynamic's MIY App comes for Apple and for Android.

It's a basic app that read battery power in 2018, but no longer in 2020, and has two unique features. One is that it can run a hearing test which equalizes the headphones for different performance based on you ears, ambient noise and the headphones themselves. Another feature is a daily sound-power integrator which tracks your sound exposure for each day, and tells you how much percent of your safe daily dose of sound you've had as the day goes on. This can protect your hearing if you like it LOUD.

The app and the test is easy to run. It wasn't 100% in English in 2018; there were still some words in German but that only adds to the charm. In 2020 it seems to be all-English.

Once you've run the test, it lets you apply the resulting equalization (EQ), and here's a cool part: you can control the percentage of how much of this EQ is applied, or turn it off entirely.

Once set, the headphones retain that EQ setting regardless of to what they are connected.

For me, the app increased the overall level and added midbass and brilliance. Thankfully these were just mild changes.

After I set it up with the app, it seemed confused as to whether I was connecting the headphones to my device itself, or to the app running inside each device. Once I was done playing with it, I removed the app since it doesn't do much and it seemed as if I had to connect from within the app in order to use it.

No big deal; it's a free app so play with it all you like.

 

Compared

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Versus the corded DT 1350

As far as I can hear, these are the DT 1350, with Bluetooth and remote. The DT 1350 have no remote. They sound identical and are about the same size. Both have the same superb subbass.

The Aventho is a few decibels more sensitive over Bluetooth at the same volume setting than the DT 1350 are over their cord from my iOS devices. S

The Aventho is more comfortable. They have softer pads and seem to have less headband pressure.

 

Versus the beyerdynamic T5i1

The T51i are corded, with a remote. They aren't quite as sensitive at the same level setting, they don't have quite as deep bass, and the T51i's response isn't quite as smooth.

 

Versus the STAX OMEGA SR-009

The state-of-the-art STAX OMEGA SR-009 are the world's most accurate headphone. As electrostatic headphones, they work on entirely different principles and have far more detail and accuracy than any dynamic or Bluetooth headphone.

However, even if they didn't cost ten times what these Aventho do, the STAX also require a specialized high-voltage plug-in-the-wall amplifier and hard-wired audio connections. The STAX are not convenient.

Sound wise, these Aventho are more enjoyable. The STAX have less bass; they don't fortify it to correct for the fact that our bodies hear most of the deeper bass, so the relative lack of bass makes the STAX sound boring, at least to me as a bass player.

The STAX are great for evaluating CODEC and data compression algorithms and forensic purposes, but owning both of these I'll admit I'd rather hear my music through the Aventho — and the Aventho isolate me from my environment so I can hear the music and the hall in which it was performed, rather than the open design of the SR-009 which lets me hear my refrigerator running.

 

Usage

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Aventho Wireless controls

Aventho Wireless connectors and controls. bigger.

 

Charging

Plug it in with a USB C cord.

It blinks red while charging.

It's solid red when done.

 

Bluetooth Connection

With power off, keep holding the button for 6 seconds. It will flash red & blue.

Select “Aventho wireless” on your device, it connects and you’re done.

You'll get a slow blue blink every several seconds when you're connected. At night, you'll get fooled a few times when you wonder what's lighting up the room every few seconds — it's the tiny blue LED.

You can connect it to up to 8 devices overall and up to two at once. It's smart; it swaps to whatever device just started to play.

To clear the list of connections, turn it off and hold the button for 10 seconds.

 

Power On & Off

Power On

Hold the button 2 seconds and release.

You’ll see a red light, the girl says "Power On” with the battery level and "Your headset is connected," but she won't say to what you're connected.

The light turns off, with just a blue blip every seven seconds. It's not that obvious that it’s on, so it's easy to forget and leave it running. I don't know if it times-out if unused.

 

Power Off

Hold the button 6 seconds.

You'll see a red light and the girl says “Power Off."

 

Left and Right

If you put these on in the dark, remember that the power button is on the right.

 

Remote Control

The right earcup is a touch panel! There are no buttons other than the one power and connection button.

Slide up and down to change the volume.

Tap forward or back to jump forward or back. You can try to slide your finger forward and back to scrub along a time line, but I'm not able to get consistent results sliding for volume control and timeline scrub.

Tap the earpiece once or twice for start and stop or answer a call. That probably will bother your ears since the earpieces are sealed to them; I prefer to lift-off the earcup from my head a bit before I tap it.

See also the Aventho Owner's Manual for details, but like the manuals to my other German products it doesn't make that much sense over just trying things and seeing what works.

 

App

The MIY App comes for Apple and for Android.

 

Break-in

There's no break-in needed, these sound great the moment you turn them on.

 

Corded Use

These work and sound great with the cord, which disconnects and uses no battery power.

The sound quality is just as good; you lose no performance as you do with lesser headphones when you run without battery power.

The only thing is that if you're not using Bluetooth, you may as well use the DT 1350 which has the same quality or the T51i which has a remote & mic for half the price.

 

Cases

beyerdynamic DT 1350 Pro

beyerdynamic DT 1350 and T51i case. bigger.

I prefer the case that comes with the T51i and DT 1350.

Since I already have two of these, my Aventho also fit in it.

This case offers more protection, and has space to hold the charge and audio cords neatly.

 

Recommendations

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The Aventho Wireless are great for enjoying every and any kind of music anywhere. They offer unlimited sound quality in an extremely portable, comfortable and convenient package you'll want to take everywhere.

These are flawless for all kinds of demanding classical music, with smooth and natural sound, and they shine for reproducing the 32-foot ranks of pipe organs and synthesizers as well. They do everything well.

I'd get mine at Amazon in brown as seen here) or at Amazon in black or at eBay (How to Win at eBay).

Enjoy!

 

More Information

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beyerdynamic's Aventho Owner's Manual

beyerdynamic's Aventho Specifications

 

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