Kiwi Ears Ellipse
50mm Dynamic Driver Hi-Fi Headphones
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Overview
The details behind Kiwi Ears Ellipse.
Studio-Grade Sound, Redefined
The Kiwi Ears Ellipse brings a studio-quality listening experience with its premium 50mm dynamic driver, engineered for exceptional clarity, rich bass, and balanced tonality. Designed with open-back acoustics, it delivers a spacious soundstage and immersive stereo performance. The lightweight, ergonomic build with plush vegan-leather earpads ensures all-day comfort, while the detachable cable design enhances versatility and longevity. Perfect for audiophiles seeking Hi-Fi sound with floorstanding speaker-like tuning in a headphone form.
Highlights
Studio-Grade Hi-Fi Sound
Equipped with a premium 50mm dynamic driver featuring PU and PEK composite diaphragms, the Ellipse delivers exceptional audio clarity, powerful bass, and natural tonality.
Immersive Open-Back Design
The open-back structure enhances airflow, creating a spacious soundstage, rich low-end depth, and airy trebles, offering a speaker-like listening experience.
Ergonomic Comfort
Lightweight design with plush vegan-leather headband and earpads ensures hours of comfortable listening while optimizing bass response.
Versatile Detachable Cable
Includes a 3.5mm plug and 6.35mm adapter with a detachable design, providing adaptability for various devices and extending the product’s lifespan.
Kiwi Ears
Driven by a passion for high-fidelity sound, the Kiwi Ears Ellipse brings together advanced engineering and expertly refined tuning to deliver an unparalleled listening experience.
Experience True Hi-Fi Sound
The Ellipse is built around a premium 50mm dynamic driver, engineered to deliver exceptional audio quality. The driver features custom-made PU and PEK composite diaphragms with an ultra-pure copper ring. It is powered by a custom CCAW high-tension voice coil and strong N42 high-performance magnets.
Speaker-Like Tuning for Headphones
The driver and the headphone housing acoustics are meticulously tuned to achieve a balanced and natural sound. The lows deliver a strong impact with sensational rumble and body. The low-mids offer rich warmth without bloat, along with accurate vocal and instrument tonality. The trebles are compensated to match the human ear’s acoustics, mirroring the perceived tonal balance of stereo speakers. The Ellipse’s tuning profile is ideal for those who want to sit back and immerse themselves in their music.
A closer look at Kiwi Ears Ellipse.
The details, in full view.
Bring Your Music to Life
To provide a life-like soundstage and imaging performance, the Ellipse is designed as an open-back headphone. This open-back design allows greater airflow into the drivers, enhancing the depth of the lows, adding airiness to the trebles, and creating a wider soundstage. While open-back headphones have lower outside-noise isolation, they remain the most proven way to achieve a stereo speaker-like musical experience.
Comfortable Design
The Ellipse is lightweight and designed for extended listening sessions. The headband features thick padding made of vegan leather, while the vegan leather earpads are specially designed to enhance the bass response of the drivers, offering both plush comfort and improved performance.
Detachable Cable Design
The Ellipse features a detachable cable design with a 3.5mm plug and a 6.35mm adapter. This design allows users to customize their sound and wearing experience, adapt to different devices, and extend the longevity of the headphones.
Technical details
- Driver configuration
- Single Driver
- Driver technology
- Dynamic Driver
- Included plugs
- 3.5 mm
- Style
- Open-back
- Fit size
- Large
- Tuning profile
- Neutral
- Sound color
- Warm
- Suggested genres
- Vocal-focused music, Pop, Classical & Orchestral, Jazz
- Driver Unit
- 50mm
- Impedance
- 32Ω
- Sensitivity
- 98dB ± 3dB
- Frequency Response
- 20Hz - 20kHz
- Plug
- 3.5mm + 6.35mm adapter
- Cable Length
- 3m
- Net Weight
- 0.28kg
- Headphone connector
- Dual 3.5mm
- Weight with Packaging
- 0.6kg
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Recensione Kiwi Ears Ellipse: monitor da studio entry level ma non troppo
Balanced tuning and long-session comfort anchor the positive verdict. Limited sub-bass, reduced isolation and a long cable are the main compromises.
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The review highlights natural mids, a comfortable fit and solid construction. Bass is restrained and the reviewer recommends suitable amplification and a quiet room.
Customer reviews
What listeners say about sound, fit and everyday use.
Customers praised these headphones for exceptional sound quality that exceeds price expectations, with "warm-neutral sound," "punchy bass," and "clear" highs. Shoppers noted comfortable wear for extended periods and balanced audio. One mentioned the cable feels "thin and cheap" but is replaceable.
Out of the box, my immediate impression of the Kiwi Ears Ellipse is that it has a warm-neutral sound with a lush and full midrange—especially in the lower mids, where male vocals and instruments like guitars and pianos shine. The punchy bass and guitars are very rhythmic and groovy on many songs, making them especially enjoyable to listen to. The upper treble range is smooth and laid-back, which makes the Ellipse non-fatiguing and easy to listen to for hours. The soundstage is moderately wide, with good imaging and separation between instruments.
The plush vegan-leather headband and ear pads add to the comfort, making the headphones easy to wear for extended periods.
At this price point, the sound quality has exceeded my expectations.
Excellnet a for mixing without breaking the bank
These are great headphones! I am very pleased with the purchase.
Just as good or better than my Fiio f1 pros. Buy these!
These sound just as good as my Philo. Pros
When I got them I first couldn’t believe: they sounded better than my other 170€ studio headphones! They’re really nice looking, comfortable and have good sound quality. Only the cable looks and feel a little thin and cheap but since you can change it that’s no problem
I never knew the headphone could make such a difference. They change every badly sounding music into something you can enjoy listening to.
Kiwi Ears Ellipse
Kiwi Ears Ellipse
These headphones sound good right out of the box , they have a large modification potential, my lips is a nicely balanced headphone with a good base wonderful brightness in the uppers and wide open soundstage they are also super comfortable.
Very nice for the price. Clear sound with nice bass. Can recommend easily.
The Kiwi Ears Ellipse is a very good, balanced, clean midrange, headphone with punchy bass and well extended and crisp treble. Not much sub bass, or midrange warmth, so it’s a balanced neutral with slight mid bass boost, but no bleed. Very enjoyable, especially with warm or analog sources (tubes, r2r, and warm DAPs).
ボーカルが前よりにくるが、音抜けはよいので、他の楽器の輪郭がボヤけることなく聞ける。
軽いため長時間の使用にも耐え、家ではこれをメインに使うことが増えました。
スマホ等の機材で聴く場合は少しアンプをかませた方が音像が綺麗になると思います。
価格も手頃で音楽好きにはいいヘッドホンだと思います。
Just my preference. We'll built comfortable neutral and clean
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