These high-end “hearables” could to be the ultimate, everlasting in-ears

These luxury earbuds will never end up in landfill – they're designed to last for life

Breggz Zohn-1 RTW earbud in white against a blurry lilac, white and green background
(Image credit: Breggz)
Quick Summary

Audiophile brand Breggz has followed up its custom-made earphones with a new, more affordable model.

While not custom-fit this time, the Zohn-1 (RTW) earbuds are manufactured to last a lifetime. The company says you'll never need to replace them.

At CES 2025, luxury audio firm Breggz launched what it claims to be the world's first fully wireless, custom-made luxury hearables.

Its Zohn-1 earphones were custom-made, and now they've been joined by a more affordable, ready-to-wear variant without the waiting time of the custom-fit versions. They're still quite expensive, though – the RRP is £1,425.

The new headphones are called the Zohn-1 (RTW) and are almost identical to the original pair. The only difference is the fit.

The originals used digital photos to create a model of your ears that would then be used to manufacture them, but these ones are ready to go.

In addition, while the Zohn-1 (RTW) are not custom-made like their siblings, they have the same personalisation based on a digital hearing test. They use the Mimi hearing profiler we've seen in other high-end earbuds.

Breggz Zohn-1 (RTW) earbuds in black on a grey background

(Image credit: Breggz)

Breggz Zohn-1 (RW): key features

The Zohn-1 (RTW) adjust the frequencies of the audio based on its hearing profile, and you can tweak that yourself via their equaliser.

The drivers are four balanced and tuned armature drivers by Knowles and Sonion, and according to Breggz they "provide unmatched clarity, richness and depth".

Also according to the manufacturer, the Zohn-1 are made to last a lifetime. They've been manufactured with a modular design that separates the electronics and battery from the drivers, enclosing the former in a tiny "pebble" that can be swapped out easily.

Breggz says the seal provides excellent passive noise cancelling and there's also a transparency mode with adjustable strength. There's voice mixing too, so you can hear yourself in conversation.

Battery life is a claimed eight hours, rising to 40 hours with the charging case. Bluetooth is Bluetooth 5.3 with LE Audio, and the headphones are IPX4 rated for water resistance.

The new Breggz Zohn-1 (RTW) are available now from Breggz.com.

Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).

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