Marvelously Colorful – Xenns Mangird Top PRO IEMs
Xenns Mangird Top PRO is a $449 USD pair of IEM Earphones with 10 drivers playing in each ear, with a hybrid configuration. Today we will review the Top Pro and compare it with other similarly priced IEMs, including Yanyin Canon Pro (399 USD), Moritz Dragon (629 USD), and Roselsea Rose Technics QT-X (439 USD).
Introduction
Linsul has been working together with Xenns for a long while now, creating new ways for us music lovers to enjoy music. Xenns is a company known for their mid centric tuning, high price / performance ratio and beautiful designs, having been a company we’ve been reviewing since the first IEMs released, and which I personally consider a good option for those who like a mid centric, sweet and euphonic sound. The company working to promote them, Linsoul, is one of the largest Chifi shops in the entire world, known for offering music loves some of the sweetest deals in audio and exceptional earphones for the lowest prices possible, on all platofroms, Amazon, Aliexpress and on their own website.
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Product Link
Amazon – https://amzn.to/3ZKdRPM
Aliexpress – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_onin4qs
Build Quality – Design
Xenns Mangird Top Pro comes with high-end acoustic engineering, including a 10-Driver array, perfect for audiophiles who crave depth, musicality and with a 4-Way Crossover, it should be able to reveal micro details in every frequency range.
Bass is produced by a pair of Dual Dynamic Driver, with a neodymium iron boron magnet at the core (NdFeB), while the midrange and the treble are produced by a set of Balanced Armatures. Those include two custom Knowles balanced armatures in the midrange, two Sonion E50D composite BA for the treble, and a custom composite Knowles Super Tweeter BA at the top for the ultra high frequencies.
Theoretically, this does not amount to 10 drivers, but I asked Linsoul and they have confirmed that indeed some of the drivers have two moving parts and are composite (two drivers acting as one) thus the number of drivers. Onto the cable, we have a high-end 196-core cable handcrafted from a hybrid single crystal copper and silver materials. This cable is braided into four strands, and has a 0.78mm 2-Pin design, making it easy to pair the Top Pro with multiple Bluetooth adapters such as FiiO UTWS5 2025. This cable also is modular, and comes with both a 4.4mm balanced connector, and a 3.5mm single ended connector.
On a technical level, Xenns Mangird Top Pro is easy to drive, having an impedance of 16 OHMs, and a somewhat low SPL of 103 dB, and it comes with a sturdy, beautiful transport case. When paired with multiple sources, I noticed that indeed it is very easy to drive, needs less power, than IEMs such as Yanyin Canon Pro or Moritz Enzo.
Fit – Subjective Usage
Xenns designed the Mangird Top Pro in the same vein as every other IEM they make, with a splash of color on the shell, but a lightweight construction, incredibly comfortable fitting, thanks to a light and rather small shell. It is not just comfortable, but offers around a medium passive isolation too, around -10 to -16 dB, depending on the frequency, and while music is playing you don’t really hear anything that’s happening on the outside.
Top Pro also has no driver flex, no void, and those shells, for how rather normal they look, they are incredibly comfy. More unique, the cable Xenns designed is flexible, but without microphonic or handling noise, and it also has a natural coiling around the ear with a springy guide, which gives me an excellent overall comfort.
While this is neither a feature nor a downside, Mangird Top Pro has semi transparent shells and you can see the drivers inside, an effect which I like a lot with IEMs. Fitting is medium-shallow, but Mangird used a high-quality eartip for the Top Pro, better than the vast majority of IEMS, in line with the quality that ddHiFi ST-35 offers. Overall, it is one of the most comfortable IEMs you can purchase.
Sound Quality
Pairings – To test the new Xenns Mangird Top Pro, I have paired it with a selection of sources, including Rose Technics RT-5000, Dethonray Listening M1, Dethonray Clarinet, iBasso DX340, Lotoo PAW GT2, FiiO K17. Top Pro is very easy to drive, needs less power than most IEMs I reviewed recently, sounds full and driven well with most sources as well. In fact, it is more stable than the vast majority of IEMs, does not need anything special to sound good, and it has great synergy with all sources, including entry-level dongles and ultra portables.
Overall Signature – Although I reviewed many of the IEMS made by Xenns in their Mangird series, I never felt like any of them was an end-game or perfect IEM, but Top Pro finally comes to clear up the name of the company and deliver an experience that really feels high-end, doing the same signature they usually do. Top Pro is a mid centric, highly revealing, highly transparent IEM with no coloration, no dips and no peaks, no valleys and no hills in the frequency response, it is the kind of IEM that sounds natural for every single ear that hears it, reveals music as it is, the material sounds as it was recorded and mastered, music is always real, voices and instruments are projected naturally near you, but with a wide soundstage. Bass doesn’t roll off before 30 Hz, which helps a lot with the body of the sound, and treble extends nicely up to 16 kHz, after which it rolls off gently, yet it has a smoother texture that makes all rock and metal easy to listen to, yet still engaging and dynamic.
Bass – In the beginning there was bass, and Xenns respects neutrality, rendering bass where it is due, and not adding anything extra, it sounds really transparent and clean, fast, it reacts quickly to impulse. Compared to all the previous Mangird IEMs, Top Pro has a much better bass extension, with less roll-off, it sounds fuller, deeper and has a more solid impact / slam. It also has a better resolution in the bass, it can reveal textures in the low-end.
Midrange – Midrange is clearly the focus with all Mangird IEMs, but Top Pro really brings this to another level, both in transparency, but also in how natural it renders everything. Trick here is that Mangird Top Pro has no peaks and no dips, it is transparent, it can render a male and a female voices as if the artist was physically next to you and singing, texture, presence, emotion and dynamics. All music sounds like it would in an open field, if you ever imagine you can just pop in a pair of IEMs and go “Wow, this sounds spot on”, this is how Top Pro sounds like. There’s no bias towards the lower mids or the upper mids, there’s no coloration at all, which is fresh. Even the fact that Top Pro is mid centric is very subtle, they sound balanced across all frequencies, producing music as you’d expect to hear it live.
Treble – If there is any particular coloration in the Top Pro sound, that’s the treble being on the smoother, more relaxed end of things, it can safely reach 16 kHz, but it is never fatiguing, it stays crisp and clean with a smoother texture, and a laid-back, relaxed presentation. Xenns really nailed the whole package with the Top Pro as there is just enough sparkle to keep the Top Pro engaging for rock and metal music, but not too much, so that it would make them fatiguing or harsh.
PRaT / Textures / Dynamic – Xenns Mangird Top Pro has fast drivers, it delivers a quick blow, quick decay, all drivers recover quickly, which creates quite a bit of texture, especially in the bass, leading to a highly transparent and technically capable sound. This being said, they tuned the Top Pro in such a way that decay slows down the more you climb in the frequency, so midrange has a smoother texture, slower, more musical and fuller, richer and more organic than the bass, and treble has a slower, smoother, leaner texture that is relaxed and neat, with zero fatiguing elements, quite nice for all music styles.
Volume Control – Xenns Top Pro is quite relaxed, it handles all volume levels equally, it sounds the same loud and quiet, with no added coloration or aggressiveness, it is simply perfect for music listening across all sources, all volume levels, it is controlled and never loses its head. It handles both low gain and high gain equally well, it is so nice that I can give it a full thumbs-up on the volume control side of things.
Soundstage – If you enjoy a wider soundstage, you will like the Top Pro, as it projects music nicely in the lateral plane, it provides a really wide image, with a good depth too. Trick here is that Top Pro always pushes cymbal crashes in the background, so even if your song is fairly flat, it will have multiple layers, with the double kick and drums playing in a frontal space, voices coming right up, and the whole stage filled with cymbal crashes that distant themselves from the bright and airy treble.
Comparisons
Xens Mangird Top Pro vs Rose Technics QT-X (449 USD vs 439 USD) – We will just explore the sound as that’s what is most requested for IEM comparisons, so QT-X is a V-Shaped with with a fairly specific frequency peaks, which gives it a more engaging, more vivid presentation, it is far more impactful, but Mangird Top Pro sounds far more natural in the midrange, voices, guitars, everything just sounds right with the Top Pro. Overall, if you need a pair of earphones that really do sound correct, as they should and spot-on, Top Pro will deliver that sound with a fairly nice soundstage, while QT-X will deliver a more traditional V-Shaped sound making rock and metal, EDM and commercial music stand out more, but feeling less natural in the midrange for other music styles, especially vocal-centric styles.
Xens Mangird Top Pro vs Moritz Dragon (449 USD vs 629 USD) – Dragon is warm, with a sparkly treble, while not necessarily the textbook definition of V-Shaped, it is slower, especially in the bass, creating a bigger, more relaxed sound, but Top Pro has a more natural midrange with less coloration. Dragon tends to emphasize male voices with a thicker, deeper presentation and with a bit of an upper midrange peak, it enhances pianos and soprano female voices in particular, while damping the middle a bit, Top Pro sounds more balanced, more natural in the midrange. What really matters is that Dragon sounds bigger, warmer, has a slower sound, and also with a bit more bite in the upper midrange / treble, while Top Pro is more balanced, smoother, and less aggressive.
Xens Mangird Top Pro vs Yanyin Canon Pro (449 USD vs 399 USD) – Canon Pro has been one of my favorite IEMs ever since hearing it, so you might be most curious about how Canon compares to Top. Canon is bassier, has more thump, more impact, more depth, and a warmer sound with quite a bit more sub-bass. Top Pro is more balanced, closer to neutral, and more mid centric. It pushes the midrange more forward, brings voices and singers closer to you, while it pulls the treble to be smoother, and more relaxed, while Canon Pro also has a smooth treble too, but with a bit more energy than the top Pro. I feel like both are excellent purchase option, Canon Pro is better if you want more bass, more impact and a slightly more engaging sound, while Top Pro is better if you like a more vocal, more mid centric sound that still has all the bass impact you may ever wish for.
Value and Conclusion
Xenns Mangird Top Pro is the first IEM from the Xenns company that I can grade as outstanding in the price / performance and value ratio, it delivers such a natural, clean sound, outstanding comfort and yet it has such a good price that it is an offer you simply cannot miss. I find it perfect for most folks who are starting out, or audiophiles who know they would enjoy a transparent IEM with excellent resolution.
At the end of the day, Xenns Mangird Top PRO is the kind of IEM you hear once and never forget, it is all about the vocals, guitars, instruments and actual music information, but packages it in a comfortable shell, being a fully recommended purchase today. When you factor in the nice transport case and the excellent cable, it is what I consider to be a true audiophile delicacy delivered by Linsoul and Xenns.
PROs
- Good package, a nice transport case, and a modular cable that works with both a 4.4mm balanced jack and a 3.5mm single ended jack
- Mid centric, but natural and highly transparent sound
- No coloration in the sound, no peaks and no dips
- Great for rock, metal, EDM, Pop, Classical, covers basically any music genre really well
- Not fatiguing nor harsh
- Excellent value
Cons
- With a highly transparent signature, it reveals the quality of the material far better than most earphones
Product Link
Amazon – https://amzn.to/3ZKdRPM
Aliexpress – https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_onin4qs
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Full Playlist used for this review
We listened to more songs than those named in this playlist, but those are excellent for identifying a sonic signature. I recommend trying most of the songs from this playlist, especially if you’re searching for new music! The playlists are different for Spotify, Tidal and Youtube, and based on the songs I enjoy and are available on each!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_cjBXGmwSHSdGcwuc_bKbBDGHL4QvYBu
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5J3oloz8Riy9LxEGenOjQ0?si=979ba4f082414be7
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/330fd544-8e5b-4839-bd35-676b2edbb3d5
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