Over-Ear
Verum 2
85Outstanding
$500
Full review dataVerum 2 vs XK Audio Serene: which should you buy?
Specs, scores and condensed review verdicts for the Verum 2 vs XK Audio Serene, side by side. Where a product has no HearWiki score yet, not enough reviews have been aggregated to rate it.
Over-Ear
XK Audio Serene
Not yet scored
$970
Full review dataScore breakdown
Each axis is a 0–10 blend of what reviewers scored, not a lab measurement.
Verum 2 leads on 4 of 4 measures.
- Verum 2
- XK Audio Serene
HearWiki score
85
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Sound
8.9
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Value
9.0
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Price (USD)
$500
$970
Generation & platform
The scores rank quality. This is the other question: is the newer one actually newer technology, or the same platform in a new shell?
Same generation
Both shipped in 2025. These are the same generation of hardware - nothing in the radio, the codecs or the noise cancelling separates them. Nothing separates them on convenience features either, so the choice comes down to tuning and price.
- 22025
- Serene2025
Specifications
2Serene
- Type
- Over-Ear
- Over-Ear
- Price (USD)
- $500
- $970
- HearWiki score
- 85
- Not scored
- Released
- 2025
- 2025
- Availability
- Sold new
- Sold new
- Driver
- 105 mm planar magnetic
- 90 mm planar magnetic
- Driver type
- planar
- planar
- Driver size
- 105 mm
- 90 mm
- Drivers per side
- 1
- -
- Frequency response
- -
- 5 Hz - 80 kHz
- Impedance
- 8 Ω
- 45 Ω
- Sensitivity
- 96 dB/mW
- 85 dB/mW
- Active noise cancelling
- No
- -
- ANC type
- none
- -
- Transparency mode
- No
- -
- Companion app
- No
- -
- Custom EQ
- No
- -
- Wear detection
- No
- -
- Controls
- -
- buttons
- Voice assistant
- No
- -
- Weight
- 450 g
- -
- Detachable cable
- Yes
- Yes
- USB-C
- No
- No
- Pad material
- fabric
- -
- Connector
- 3.5 mm
- -
- Balanced connection
- Yes
- Yes
- Call noise reduction
- No
- -
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