MoonDrop Void

Anyone who has been in the market for in-ear monitors (IEMs) in the last couple of years has no doubt heard of MOONDROP. The China-based audio brand originated in 2015 and has relished a meteoric rise in both brand awareness and market share, to where it has expanded greatly to include TWS earphones, portable DAC/amps and dongles, and even keyboards in its product portfolio. MOONDROP held a live stream in July 2022 to publicly announce its debut into the world of over-ear headphones with not one, but three different headphones. Not only was there going to be the expected dynamic driver set, but it surprised everyone by also announcing a planar magnetic and an electrostatic set of headphones. The dynamic driver set VOID was supposed to be released first except for a last minute hold-back based on feedback from a few people who had early access to the unit, including myself, to where MOONDROP did the right thing in delaying the launch to fix a few things and even went the extra mile in providing free updated units to those who had already received the earlier version! What this meant was that the planar magnetic VENUS ended up being the first MOONDROP headphones to be released and it was an impressive debut to say the least.