![]() ![]() I tried a few different DAPs, and found the character of Ronin to be a little bright and sometimes bass-lite. The soundstage is wide and three dimensional, and the whole presentation of the stereo image is immersive, with holographic imaging, and a real sense of putting the listener on the stage or in the studio with the performers. Ronin offers excellent resolution and speed in a highly technical treble delivery. The treble provides definition and a great sense of air. The timbre is just on the bright side of natural, but doesn’t have any sharp or tinny overtones. You get absolutely top tier detail retrieval coupled with strong layering and separation. The mids are clean, detailed, and transparent. And while it doesn’t have the impact of a dynamic driver bass, there are other physical characteristics it provides, like the pluck of the bass or the sense of the tactile nature of the skin of a drum or timpani head. With Ronin’s balanced armature based low-end, you get excellent speed and strong texture. The emphasis is clearly on delivering a reference sound that’s bright, but not so much analytical, instead delivering emotion through immersive imaging and visceral highs. Ronin is highly revealing, with incredible detail and microdynamics that deliver a vivid, lifelike reproduction of music that makes you feel like you could reach out and touch the instruments. You can also expect Noble’s typical excellent protective travel case that they provide with their flagship IEMs. The cable has a smooth luxurious feel, and it has very little memory cable and is resistant to tangling. Two of the cores are silver plated copper, and the other two are a mix gold plated copper and OCC copper strands. The cable was specially designed by Eletech specifically for Ronin and uses four cores. Noble provides a selection of silicone and foam tips that should help you find the perfect combination for a good seal and fit. It’s definitely quite large, and the insertion is moderately deep, so if you have smaller ears, it might be challenging to get a good fit. This is an absolutely gorgeous IEM with a finish worthy of a top of the line IEM. Upon removing Ronin from its packaging, the first thing I noticed was how the pictures don’t do it justice. So how does Ronin stack up against the current crop of flagship IEMs, and now that we have Ronin, have we moved into a brighter timeline? Build and Design In the same way that Sultan was the successor to Khan, but then Kublai Khan provided another take on a next-generation Khan, Ronin offers a sort of alternate timeline take on an heir to the famed Noble Katana. Noble Audio is starting to make a habit of – rather than constantly pushing forward from the next thing to the thing after that – taking a step back, and looking at other paths from past IEMs to build on their flagship sound. ![]()
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