Golden Ears: Thieaudio Prestige LTD Review

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Earlier this year, we looked at the Thieaudio Prestige , but the company is back with a revision based on user feedback. Designed for realism, immersion, and accuracy, the Thieaudio Prestige LTD is an absolutely killer update. Read on to find out what makes it special in this edition of Golden Ears. 

The Thieaudio Prestige LTD is the latest flagship tribrid pair of earphones from the company, combining three different types of drivers into each housing. It’s a follow-up to the original Prestige, which debuted earlier this year, and follows a very similar design. The revision here is based entirely on tuning and is a direct response to the feedback offered by the community, helping this model to be the best it can be for its intended purpose. 

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and take a closer look and its design. While a “hybrid” pair of earphones uses two types of drivers (usually dynamic drivers [DD] and balanced armatures [BA]), the Prestige LTD’s tribrid moniker indicates that there are three different types of drivers at play in each earpiece. It takes the hybrid design and expands on it with electrostatic (EST) drivers to enhance treble and resolution. All told, there are nine drivers in each side, one 10mm dynamic driver, four balanced armatures, and four electrostatics. 

As you would expect from such a premium pair of earphones, these drivers are all hand-chosen for the sonics they’re intended to deliver. The bass is handled by the dynamic driver acting as a subwoofer. Two of the balanced armatures, produced by Sonion cover the low-mids, while the remaining two, from Knowles, cover the upper-mids. The electrostatics, also from Sonion, cover the highs and ultra-highs. These drivers split the frequencies with a