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beyerdynamic T1 & T5

Having hit the peak for wireless noise-cancellers, the rest of the headphones in our group here are cabled models, and given the increasing prices, they are cabled headphones of great quality. Here we have two, indeed, as beyerdynamic has repeated the trick it delivered with the DT1770 Pro and 1990 Pro, one open-backed, one closed-back, but otherwise similar in their construction and sound, so that you could buy whichever suited your purposes, or heck, get one of each. This time around the headphones are the T1 and the T5, both established models of renown, now released in their third generation.

The T5 is the closed-back version, keeping external sounds off and internal sounds in,

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