The Beyerdynamic Xelento Wireless cuts the cords on high-end in-ear headphones
Beyerdynamic has a new version of its top-of-the-line Xelento in-ear headphones: the Xelento Wireless, which true to its same, takes the same design and audio hardware of the original Xelento, and cuts the cord in favor of a Bluetooth connection. That means that the Xelento Wireless still offers the same Tesla transducer technology (and presumably, same audiophile-level sound quality) seen in Beyerdynamic’s wired model, but in an even more portable form.
When it comes to actually taking the Xelento headphones wireless, Beyerdynamic has taken a somewhat inelegant solution: instead of terminating the cord in a 3.5mm headphone jack, the end…