Starry Audio Yozora Review: Pure Musical Energy
Over the past months, I’ve introduced and reviewed a variety of new premium IEM brands, such as King Melody, Horizon Doom, and Eminent Ears. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a relatively new brand – called Starry Audio. I’ve been looking into their products and brand for quite a while now, and I’m happy to finally introduce them to our readers. The name is Starry Audio, and today we’ll be reviewing their second flagship IEM, the Yozora. Starry Audio Yozora is an 8-driver flagship model using 2DD+6BA and priced at about $ 2,169 (~16880 HKD). Let’s dive into the what and how, and compare the sound with similarly priced competitors.
About Starry Audio
Starry Audio is a premium UIEM/CIEM brand based in Hong Kong since 2022. The first time I became aware of this brand was in the same year, at the Japan Fujiya-Avic show, where Starry Audio debuted its 2BA+1DD IEM, Yoru. I was quite pleased with the delicate tuning and concept, yet Yoru wasn’t quite there yet to give me that “wow-factor”. However, after a period of refinement, Starry Audio recently returned with two flagship products that blew me away with their quality: Syzygy and Yozora. Syzygy is the first flagship (~$1,700), and Yozora is the second flagship IEM (~$2,150). Though technically, it’ll be more suitable to consider them as a dual-flagship that differ in taste rather than one being superior to another.
Stanley, the founder of Starry Audio, shared that the brand name “Starry” was chosen to evoke the feeling of gazing at the constantly shifting night sky and to offer a unique, emotional experience when users wear and listen to Starry Audio IEMs. For this reason, their product names are all chosen from Japanese words related to the sky and space: Yoru (Night), Syzygy (straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies), and Yozora (Night Sky).
Packaging & Accessories
Syzygy comes in quite a simple packaging design, but it still includes the essentials. Once opening reveals a roomy metal case including Yozora IEMs, 3 pairs of Aroma silicone eartips, 3 pairs of AET07 wide bore eartips, a leather cable tie, an earpiece mesh bag, user instructions, and a warranty card. The carrying case is large enough to house thicker custom cables. While I don’t have much to complain about the packaging, I do hope they would’ve included a bit more stock eartips. On the positive side, the stock cable is very well made and quite special, which I’ll be explaining below.
Earpieces / Interesting Nozzle Chamber
Yozora uses 8 drivers per side with a 3-way crossover: a 2DD+6BA hybrid setup with dual 9.2mm dynamic drivers for the lows, 4BA drivers for the mids, and 2BA drivers for the highs. While simply looking at the numbers and the driver types being familiar may deter you from paying more attention to Yozora’s, though not for long.
Yozora has a black, resin body with faceplates topped with various shades of blue glitter. The rose gold Starry logo pairs nicely with the overall design. It has a classic design done right and up-to-date. What’s really interesting is its nozzle form factor; unlike most in-ear earphones with the usual nozzle shapes we’re all familiar with, Yozora’s nozzle spout has an open-chamber design, where different bores of sound tubes meet before the sound transits to the eartip. This offers a fit and sound that is similar to a semi-custom IEM.
Special Cable: Rolling Force Choco
For the stock cable, Starry Audio collaborated with Rolling Force, a custom cable manufacturer based in Hong Kong that has been rising in popularity for its excellent tuning and sound quality. Rolling Force Choco is a 4‑wire, high‑purity copper cable using a blend of 4N and 5N Litz OFC wires. The wires have a warm, chocolate‑brown tint (hence the name), and the overall build feels premium without being bulky. The hardware uses a matte metallic finish with grey and silver color tones.
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