RSN-BD2
BD-2 Belt-Drive Turntable
A manual belt-drive deck with a switchable phono stage and a moving-magnet cartridge fitted…
Hear what was actually recorded.
Headphones, monitors and the small amount of hardware between them and the music. Every specification we publish is the one you would compare, and the ones we cannot verify are marked as such.
Range
7 products
Impedance
16 – 300 Ω
Connection
Wired · USB · Bluetooth
Specifications
Published in full
Seven pieces, chosen to work together
A short catalogue rather than a wall of options. Driver size, impedance, sensitivity and connection are listed on every product page so you can compare before you buy.
Shop all
RSN-DA1
DA-1 Desktop DAC and Headphone Amplifier
USB, optical and coaxial in; balanced and unbalanced headphone out, plus a line output…
RSN-PS6
PS-6 Portable Speaker
A 2 kg battery speaker with a passive radiator, aptX, an aux input and…
RSN-TW20
TW-20 True Wireless Earbuds
10 mm dynamic drivers, AAC and aptX Adaptive, seven hours a charge and a…
RSN-NF5
NF-5 Compact Studio Monitor
A two-way active nearfield with a 5 inch woofer and 60 W of onboard…
RSN-OE90
OE-90 Open-Back Headphones
A 50 mm dynamic open-back at 300 ohms, built for a quiet room and…
RSN-HS1
HS-1 Headphone Stand
A weighted aluminium stand with a wide felt-lined yoke, so a headband rests on…
Start from how you listen
Desk, commute, or a room with the door shut. Each collection is a small set of equipment picked to suit one of those, not a filter on a catalogue.
Shop all
Four rules we buy by
Publish the numbers that matter
Driver size and type, nominal impedance, sensitivity, frequency response, weight and what the cable plugs into. Those are the figures you would compare between two pairs, so they sit on the product page rather than in a downloadable sheet.
Say when a number needs a lab
Distortion, isolation in decibels and channel matching all need a measured test report to be worth printing. Where we do not have one for a product, the row says so instead of carrying a figure we cannot stand behind.
Parts you can replace
Earpads compress, cables get stood on, headbands wear. Everything in the range that can reasonably be a serviceable part is one, and we stock the pads and cables for what we sell rather than treating a worn pad as the end of a headphone.
Fit before frequency response
Clamp force, pad depth and weight decide whether you finish an album. A pair that measures well and hurts after forty minutes is the wrong pair, which is why weight and pad material are listed as prominently as the driver.
What actually changes how it sounds
Four things worth understanding before you compare two product pages.
Drivers and housings
Dynamic drivers move a lot of air for the money, planar magnetic ones trade efficiency for a flatter response. Neither is automatically better. The housing around them, open or closed, changes the result more than the badge does.
The room you listen in
A monitor two feet from a wall behaves differently from the same monitor on a stand in the middle of a room. Where a product benefits from placement or a stand, the product page says so rather than leaving you to find out.
At the desk
Most listening happens next to a keyboard. Cable length, plug angle, how much desk a speaker takes and whether a headphone stays comfortable through a working day are all part of the specification here.
What we do not claim
No measured distortion figures, no review scores, no awards and no partner logos. If a claim would need a test report or a third party to stand behind it, the specification row is marked for the client to confirm instead.
Four questions, in this order
Where will you use it
A shared office and a quiet room want opposite things. Closed backs and earbuds keep sound in and out; open backs need a room where leaking is fine.
Check impedance and sensitivity
Both are printed on every product page here. Low impedance and high sensitivity run happily off a phone; the reverse usually wants an amplifier.
Work out the connection
Wired, USB, Bluetooth with a named codec, or line in. Match it to the source you already own before you look at anything else on the page.
Read the weight and the pads
Comfort decides whether you keep using a pair. Weight, clamp and pad material are listed on every headphone in the range for exactly that reason.
Notes on gear, rooms and specifications
Why a DAC matters less than people say, and an amp sometimes matters more
Digital-to-analogue conversion has been a solved problem for a while. Getting enough voltage into a high-impedance headphone has not.
Open-back, closed-back, and the room you listen in
The enclosure decides more about your experience than the driver does, and the right answer depends entirely on where you are sitting.
What impedance and sensitivity actually tell you
Two numbers on every headphone box, one of them widely misread. Here is what each one predicts and what it does not.
A note when there is something worth saying
Restock dates, replacement earpad and cable availability, and the occasional correction when we get a specification wrong. Roughly once a month. Unsubscribe in one click.