Breggz Zohn 2 packs five drivers per earbud and finally looks the part

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When I reviewed the Breggz Zohn-1 last spring, the sound stopped me cold. A shell molded from a scan of my own ears, a seal no universal tip has matched for me since, and tuning done by people who build monitors for the stage. The design never kept up. Plain shells, a timid little light, and a puck that could have shipped with earbuds at a tenth of the $2,000 price.

Breggz built the Zohn 2 as the direct reply. Five drivers sit in each earbud now, the custom mold is gone, and the price lands at about $737 at the UK price of £549. It is on sale in the UK and the Netherlands today, with first deliveries due late this month.

American buyers wait for a rollout through 2027. Selfridges in London and De Bijenkorf in Amsterdam carry it in store.

Breggz Zohn 2
Five drivers per earbud: 10mm dynamic, 6mm planar, three balanced armatures · IMAX Enhanced certified · No ANC; passive seal isolation with adjustable transparency
Price: About $737 at the UK price
Where to buy: More details at Breggz

The design finally has a point of view

Matte black shells carry one copper orange line apiece, and the company’s parenthesis mark glows white on each face.

The case is a squat puck machined from aluminum alloy, ringed with the same copper line and a decorative band, with the mark set into its lid. Even the left marker is handled with care. Breggz embossed it in Braille inside the case.

Set this beside the first model and the gap is obvious. My Zohn-1 looked like a hearing instrument that happened to play music beautifully. This one looks like somebody art directed it. Size is the cost. These shells are plump, the puck runs 34.5mm thick, and neither piece pretends to disappear in a pocket. It photographs like a product with a price, which the Zohn-1 never quite did.

Five drivers doing the work one mold used to do

A 10mm dynamic driver takes the low end. A 6mm planar driver handles the top, and three balanced armatures fill the space between. Sound designers and performing artists tuned the array at Breggz’s Amsterdam studio, and four profiles ship in the app: Studio, Live, IMAX Enhanced, and a Your Sound mode with a 10-band equalizer for building your own.

My pair has not landed yet, so the sound verdict waits for ears.

Architecture is the argument for now. The Zohn-1 drew its magic from fit as much as from its armatures, and this driver stack is Breggz trying to win that ground back with hardware instead of a mold.

The mold is gone, and that is the real trade

Universal fit means the seal now comes from tips. Seven options ship in the box, four silicone sizes and three memory foam, and passive isolation does the quieting. Breggz fits no ANC at all, on purpose, and offers an adjustable transparency mode for the moments you need the room back. Foam tips can seal well. They can’t seal like a shell built from your own ear scan.

The buds carry an IPX4 rating against sweat and rain.

Capacitive touch controls sit on each face and can be remapped per ear in the app, four microphones handle calls with beamforming and wind reduction, and a find-my-earbuds tool lives in the app for the day one slips down between the couch cushions.

Built for the couch, certified for movies

IMAX Enhanced certification carried over from the ready-to-wear Zohn-1, and Breggz still calls this the only certified wireless earphone line carrying it. A dedicated profile, built with specialists from IMAX and DTS, widens the soundstage for film soundtracks. Movies are the pitch this time. The in-ear computer language that trailed the first model is nowhere in sight.

A case battery you can actually replace

Seven hours of listening come from the buds, 25 more from the case, 32 in total. The case battery is replaceable, a holdover from the first model’s longevity thinking and still rare enough to name. Ten minutes on the cable returns about 40 minutes of playback. Bluetooth 6.0 brings multipoint and Auracast, and the codec list runs SBC, AAC, aptX Classic, aptX Adaptive, and LC3. Wireless charging didn’t make the cut, which stings at this price.

Ownership terms soften the price a little. The warranty runs two years and returns run 30 days, long enough to live with the fit before you commit. The first 2,000 buyers find an Ambassador Card in the box with invitations to Breggz events. A full charge takes an hour and forty minutes. Shipping is free in the Netherlands and the UK.

Breggz Zohn 2
Five drivers per earbud: 10mm dynamic, 6mm planar, three balanced armatures · IMAX Enhanced certified · No ANC; passive seal isolation with adjustable transparency
Price: About $737 at the UK price
Where to buy: More details at Breggz

Who should buy the Zohn 2

Film-first listeners in the UK and Europe are the target, and the fit makes sense there: the certified IMAX profile, the wide stage, and none of the processing some of us hear in ANC buds. Anyone who wanted my Zohn-1 and balked at $2,000 now gets the brand’s tuning ideas at roughly a third of the price.

Frequent flyers should skip it, because a foam seal won’t do that job at 38,000 feet on a red-eye. US readers should skip it for now, since no store stocks it yet and the 2027 rollout carries no firm date. And skip it if the mold was the whole appeal. That product is still the Zohn-1. The custom scan, the pebble, the whole ritual. None of that fits in a universal shell.

The design question answers itself in the photos. Yes, it is better. The shells and that copper-ringed puck have an identity the first model never had. What Breggz traded away is the mold, and the mold was the most personal thing the company ever sold. This is the version built to sell in numbers, and it looks it. Whether the sound survives the trade is the next review’s job.

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