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I love music, and I love pretty things, so when I got the press release for Noble Audio's new flagship (ie, expensive) in ear monitors (IEMs), I perked right up.

The Noble Audio Lu Ban , set to release at the upcoming CanJam Singapore, is named after the legendary Chinese structural engineer and inventor, but looks a great deal prettier, I'd wager. There's plenty of marketing waffle about what these things sound like, but sticking to just the facts, they feature cocobolo wood, one 10mm dynamic driver, two planar drivers, and they cost $1,399 / £1,299.

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Spec check

The Lu Ban features a three-driver hybrid setup consisting of a single dynamic driver and dual-planar drivers.…