Tuesday, January 14th 2025

Moondrop Showcases Meteor Wired and Robin Wireless IEMs at CES 2025

Leiyin Audio, the same brand that had kindly invited us to attend the 18th Shenzhen International Audio Show last year, had a large booth at CES where Moondrop also had a presence thanks to its new Moondrop Global company that is now responsible for all operations outside China. There was a large showing from Moondrop thus, with most recently launched products from the past year to be found here. Our eyes were caught on the recently released Meteor, a 1 DD +2 BA +4 planar magnetic tribrid driver set that uses a relatively large 13 mm dynamic driver fit into a large faceplate protrusion that is capped by, as the name suggests, a piece of genuine meteorite fragment. It uses Moondrop's new XTM crossover technology and promises good quality bass as part of a balanced tuning for an asking price of $500. Expect a full review on TechPowerUp, as the CES sample was already impressive despite the noisy show floor conditions.

Also at the booth was Moondrop's immensely popular Robin, a true wireless stereo (TWS) set developed in collaboration with Honkai: Star Rail, an even more popular video game. Robin is a playable character in the game, and you will see it adorned on the TWS set too. To no surprise, this is right up Moondrop's marketing alley given how much it likes to use female artwork to attract customers, although at least here we do get a legitimately well-tuned set of TWS IEMs—quite rare even in 2025—with app support for customizable tonalities and touch controls too. The carry case further builds upon the theme and, at $99, the Moondrop Robin has already proven to be a huge commercial success less than a month into its global launch.
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5 Comments on Moondrop Showcases Meteor Wired and Robin Wireless IEMs at CES 2025

#1
SOAREVERSOR
I'll look for the review but the meteor is interesting. 4 planar? 500 is still well in splurge area given IEMs now. You probably need a new award for this one looking at it. "Highly Recommended, BUT CHONKY!!!!"
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VSG
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SOAREVERSORI'll look for the review but the meteor is interesting. 4 planar? 500 is still well in splurge area given IEMs now. You probably need a new award for this one looking at it. "Highly Recommended, BUT CHONKY!!!!"
It's those micro-planar tweeters, these are shaped and sized similar to BA drivers and not the usual larger round planar drivers.
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Scrizz
@VSG I saw Moondrop also released the EDGE headphones? I saw something about Beryllium, but the price is also under $100. :confused:
Hopefully you can get reivews of all thing things! at some point. :D
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VSG
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Scrizz@VSG I saw Moondrop also released the EDGE headphones? I saw something about Beryllium, but the price is also under $100. :confused:
Hopefully you can get reivews of all thing things! at some point. :D
I have it here already, it's quite good with ANC off. But ANC on kills the bass, making it less attractive to the target audience in my opinion. Definitely not a beryllium driver, it's a plating on top of standard mylar I imagine.
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#5
Scrizz
VSGI have it here already, it's quite good with ANC off. But ANC on kills the bass, making it less attractive to the target audience in my opinion. Definitely not a beryllium driver, it's a plating on top of standard mylar I imagine.
Interesting, that's the opposite of other ANC headphones I've used. Generally the bass becomes more pronounced with ANC on. Thanks for your reply.
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