Beyerdynamic Aventho 300 Review - What happened here?

all right guys today we're going to take

a look at the Bayer Dynamic aventho 300

wireless and I don't know if I'm saying

this correctly this could be avento or

aeno I'm probably saying this

incorrectly so I apologize in advance

this one is an overear closed-back ANC

wireless headphone uh from be dynamic

you guys might be more familiar with

some of their Studio headphones like the

dt880 the 990 the 1990 Etc this one is

meant to serve a different function so

uh let's get into the video and find out

if it's any good

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okay in this video we're going to go

over the build the design and all of

that stuff then we'll talk about the uh

how it sounds to me subjectively and

then we'll talk about the frequency

response and the measured results and

just my usual disclaimer here uh this

was actually sent to me directly from

beay Dynamic big thanks to beay Dynamic

for sending it out for a review I

greatly appreciate it and as always I do

not get to keep these products and all

thoughts and opinions here are my own

okay let's get started here with the

build quality the design and the comfort

and right away I just have to say that

this is one of my favorite looking

headphones that I've come across period

I love I mean this is the correct color

objectively um okay that's a joke but

like I love the way that this looks it

looks sleek classy and professional I

was wearing this outside you know going

walking around you know just testing it

with regular use and I did not feel

embarrassed once at least not more than

usual and I think the design language

that they've gone for here um is just

really solid across the board it does

also have a cup swivel all the way so

you can lay it flat if you want to it

does pick up some uh smudges a little

bit when you when you hold it but uh if

you have dry hands that shouldn't be a

problem there's a little bit of tilt

that you get here um so that's all

really good you can fold it and then the

ear cups are not round it's nice that

ear cups it's nice when ear cups and

pads specifically aren't round because

ears aren't round uh I do find the ear

opening to be a little bit on the small

side let me just show you how this

measures given that it is asymmetrical I

don't know how accurate a result that's

going to be but I didn't find that this

would you know Crush my P into the side

of my head so that's nice uh one little

criticism here is that um it is a little

bit on the shallow side so my ear did

rub up a little bit against some of this

material here uh when wearing it so like

let me just pop it on and I don't know

if you'll you can't really see this

because it's inside but like right now

when I'm wearing it this part this part

that sticks out in my ear touches the

inside of the of the cup and so if

you're really sensitive to that that

might be something to consider uh but I

didn't find it to be overly

uncomfortable as a result and also the

build here feels uh exceptional this

feels really sturdy really solid I was

just comparing this like to the FT1

recently and like it's no contest here

this is a much more sturdy feeling

device so with the sound quality there

are some things to know here so the base

here it is elevated it is boosted by a

considerable amount but it's not done in

a stupid way a lot of the products that

come out with boosted Bas like the ones

that you see from Bose or you know the a

lot of the ANC headphones that I've

actually been evaluating recently even

the high-end ones will just have this

enormous base shelf that starts way too

high up in frequency that's not what you

get with this and while this doesn't

give it a really Punchy or dynamic sound

so much or like tight or tactile sound

um it's it's way too boomy for that it

doesn't it also doesn't crowd out the

mid-range or you know bleed over into

kind of that muffled territory but at

the same time the mids are totally

obscured by just a absolutely wacky

frequency response and absolutely

bizarre tuning for this headphone that

doesn't make any sense for how human

hearing actually works so just

subjectively when I put it on I do this

all before measuring the headphones to

get a sense of how things sound and

right away this is another one where I

knew that there were going to be major

issues within the frequency response um

just by listening to it right so this

has nothing to do with the actual

connectivity going on this has

everything to do with the frequency

response um the connectivity that's

that's not an issue with modern uh you

know competent ANC headphones for that

part of the design now we'll get into

the measurements here in a moment and I

think some people think oh be dynamic

usually has brighter headphones and the

you know if you don't like brighter

headphones you're not going to like the

be Dynamic Sound that's not what's going

on with this this is actually not

similar at all uh to the other be

dynamic headphones that you might be a

little bit more familiar with really

very little about it is good it is just

not not how sound should be flat out

period and to demonstrate what I'm

talking about here let's get into the

data uh but just before I do as usual

all these videos are made possible by

headphones.com if you want to learn

about some of the things that I'm

talking about here make sure you check

out some of the articles that are up on

headphones.com where we talk about the

reasons why uh we evaluate this way and

also it gives you a good foundation for

understanding the data a little bit more

I'll also leave some videos there um if

you want to kind of get a primer on what

contributes to good sound quality and

head phones a lot of this has to do with

basically you know the the fact that

human beings have ears that are

generally human ear shaped ears are

different so there is a subjective

component to this but ears are still

recognizable as ears the same way that

hands are recognizable as hands and feet

are recognizable his feet let's not go

there but without further Ado let's get

into the data here and I will show you

guys what I'm talking about so with the

eventho 300 you can see that there is uh

a bit of a base bump there in the mid

base I don't really penalize these

headphones that much for that and also

the other thing to consider is that on

different heads this feature is going to

change a little bit here you can see

that there is a seal going on but you

know depending on how this fits on the

person's head maybe if a person wears

glasses um that may change a bit I did

not measure any leakage compensation

effects going on with this that's

sometimes very difficult to actually

identify um but I I didn't notice it in

my testing so it might not be there um

and if that's the case um you are going

to have some variability there in the

base for close back back headphones I

mean then we would sort of treat this as

a closed back headphone for leakage

effects so in general I would say that

the mids here are actually solid all the

way up until you get to around uh the

ear gain region so this is the upper

mid-range uh this is where the ear

amplifies frequencies the most strongly

and there are actually certain standards

here for where the ear gain should be

for human beings and it is not where the

rise here is on this headphone and this

is it's basically the opposite of what

you would want for ear game um and this

is what causes it to sound incred

inedibly disjointed completely

incoherent and just compressed across

the board you have a substantial

resonance here around 2 khz that

dominates over where the ear gain should

be um where the ear typically amplifies