Rossi&Wing (LUA) Serendipity Review: Warm Welcoming
From budget to flagships, many IEMs and headphone makers approach from here and there – and as the industry gets more competitive and condensed, the stronger the demands to stay afloat to the community’s attention. Other than the sound signature, what else do you pay attention to the most when choosing an IEM? Driver types, brand power, or price to performance – or perhaps all of them? Today, we’re reviewing a Rossi&Wing LUA ‘Serendipity’ – a special earphone beautifully built, tuned, and conceptualized by Rossi&Wing. The LUA Series includes three IEM products – Serendipity, Synchronicity, and Celestian. Serendipity is the most budget-friendly from the series, priced at $590 and powered by R&W “Magna Resonus” MR10 dynamic driver.
Rossi&Wing: Who Are They?
Since Rossi&Wing (R&W in short) should be a completely new face to most users in the audiophile scene, let’s briefly go through the brand introduction. The title “ROSSI” refers to a group of members who have extensive experience in R&D, providing tuning and production services for numerous well-known audio brands over the past decades. While R&W hasn’t described the specifics of the R&D team members or which brands they’ve worked for, presumably due to NDA, R&W shed light that the team (or at least a portion of them) is based in the United States.
On the other hand, “Wing” is the last name of Zephon Wing, the founder and the head leader of R&W, as well as Archwing Audio Emporium, a portable audio distributor business from Taiwan. Rossi and Wing have teamed up since 2019 for several years until finalizing their product line-up as well as their debut product, the First Light: the summit-fi IEM. Well, to be exact, it’s an “IEA” (In-Ear Auditorium). If you’d like to learn more about First Light and the story behind being an IEA instead of an IEM, you can read our review here.
LUA – Powered by Rossi&Wing
Rossi&Wing currently has three product lines, which are the Celestisium Series, Sanctorum Series, and LUA Series. The Celestisium Series is R&W’s most high-end in-ear product line-up, including First Light and Four Winds (TBD 2026). The Sanctorum Series is the premium cable lineup, and the LUA Series is a line of premium in-ear monitors that blend advanced driver engineering with artistic design. Positioned as a luxury collection, LUA IEMs emphasize three multisensory concepts, uniting sound, visual art, and fragrance. LUA Serendipity is available in two variants – the default and Monet Edition.
Beautiful LUA Packagings
Serendipity arrives in a beautiful, art‑inspired packaging box. Included with the IEMs are 3 pairs of silicone tips, a 2pin-4.4mm cable, paperwork, a Japanese Furoshiki protective cloth, and a fragrance sample. As hinted earlier, Rossi&Wing paired LUA products with a curated fragrance (HOKKI No.3: green leaves, cedarwood, mint, iris, orange blossom) to extend the unboxing into a full sensory experience, which is specifically selected for Serendipity. Inside the box, as well as the Furoshiki cloth, gently exudes a unique fragrance. The earpieces also have this scent, though it gradually disappears – no worries in case you dislike fragrances, if that’s the case.
Earpieces that are Absolutely Artistic
LUA Serendipity uses a resin body infused with purple and orange glitters, giving the earpieces a subtle shimmer that complements their artistic faceplates. The Monet Edition features a vibrant pink and skyblue design, inspired by the Monet art style. The faceplates are topped with metal LUA and Serendipity logos.
As for the technical specifications of Serendipity, unfortunately, we don’t have much info available to discuss here – R&W keeps the internal driver configuration of the LUA Series under wraps, except that they’re powered by the ‘R&W Magna Resonus MR10’ driver. Though based on the sound characteristics and nozzle design, Serendipity most likely uses a single 10mm custom dynamic driver at its core.
Stock Cable: Rossi&Wing GaZe
Serendipity now comes paired with R&W’s updated GaZe cable, replacing the earlier black fabric-shielded stock cable. The GaZe cable is a copper-silver hybrid coaxial design, built with OCC Copper and OCC Silver-Plated Copper. It’s a 2-braid cable with a smooth gray finish, offering both visual elegance and functional flexibility. Cable termination is 2-pin to 4.4mm, with a brushed-hairline metal Y-split shaped like a triangular prism pillar. The plug design is subtly unique, featuring a circular column with a slightly thicker midsection that sets it apart from typical plug shapes. Handling is excellent – soft, pliable, and microphonics-free. The cable complements Serendipity’s aesthetic and sonic character well, and the build quality feels premium without being overly stiff or heavy.
The Fit & Wear
In terms of fit, the shells are light and ergonomically shaped, sitting comfortably in the ear without protruding. The size is standard or slightly more compact than typical flagship IEMs, making them easy to wear for extended sessions. There is a bit of ear pressure buildup, more than average, though not to a concerning degree. Nonetheless, it’s not a dealbreaker, though I do wish the IEMs themselves were more convenient in relieving pressures in the first place. Using pressure-relieving eartips like Velvet Tips or Tanchjim T-APB greatly helps mitigate this, and the included stock tips are already tuned for this purpose.
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