Introduction

Kinera's parent company, YuTai Electronic Acoustics, was established in 2011. This makes the entire outfit no more than a decade old, yet it has already left a strong impression on me with just a single cable covered before. The company has plenty of experience in working with and even developing balanced armature drivers for hearing aids, which it has put to good use in hybrid IEMs. We are not looking at one of those today, and this in fact happens to be something out of the left field for Kinera. It had come out with a couple of TWS earphones in the past, including the YH802, albeit to middling fanfare.


However, Kinera clearly had more plans for the increasingly popular TWS market. To celebrate its 10th anniversary and show off its artisan prowess, Kinera released a limited edition of the YH802 TWS with only 2000 units sold worldwide. It uses a single custom-developed 10-mm dynamic driver and promises extensive touch controls to make up for the absence of a mobile app. There is even hybrid ANC here, with ANC and transparency modes that have associated voice prompts go with them. The biggest attraction is no doubt the fully hand-painted finish, making this limited edition a clear departure from the previous white, beige, or black sets it supplanted. Thanks to HiFiGo for providing TechPowerUp a review sample so that we may see how it fares for ourselves.

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