Tag Archive: Phiaton

Summary

After making a splash in 2008 with its well-received Moderna MS 400 headphones and handful of other high-end audio products, Phiaton returned in 2009 with its first pair of in-ear headphones: the PS 200. Distinct metal housings and jet-turbine styling set the unique ‘buds apart from competitors, while a dual-driver design promises audio a step above cheaper single-driver solutions. We put the swank new in-ear phones to the test to see whether they could live up the reputation for quality their makers are already starting to establish.

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Summary

If the Phiaton brand isn’t exactly on the tip of your tongue when it comes to high-end audio, we’ll forgive you. Phiaton (pronounced fee’ ah ton) emerged not long ago from South Korea’s equally low-key Cresyn Corporation as a retail name to peddle its own high-end audio products. Between the chic Moderna series products and fashionable Primal series, nothing the company makes sells for below $200. The $250 carbon-fiber-studded Moderna MS 400 ‘phones occupy the middle of the line, between its $200 MS 300, and PS 500 and PS 300 NC, both marked at $300. They promise audiophile-pleasing sound from a package that looks slick enough to bust out around town, and folds down neatly into a carrying case to bring them out of the studio.  Read more...