22/07/2026
🍁 Raw Wood vs. Lacquered Polish: Which Timber Soul Belongs to You? 🪵✨
When crafting high-end wooden in-ear monitors, material selection is only half the magic. How we finish the wood fundamentally changes how an IEM looks, feels, and—most importantly—sounds.
Today, we are diving into two distinct craftsmanship philosophies in our lineup: Koyo (丹枫) and Serenity.
🍁 KOYO (丹枫) — The Raw & Organic Pioneer
The Finish: Uncoated, natural stabilized wood, hand-polished to a smooth satin touch.
The Feel: Warm, velvety, and breathing naturally against your skin. You feel the raw texture of every wood grain.
The Sound: Free from a hard outer resin shell, soundwaves diffuse naturally through the wood’s porous matrix. Paired with its open-back architecture, Koyo delivers an uncompressed, holographic, and deeply organic soundstage with buttery-smooth decays.
✨ SERENITY — The High-Gloss Classic
The Finish: Coated in a crystal-clear, jewel-like high-gloss lacquer finish.
The Feel: Glass-like, ultra-sleek, and effortlessly gliding into your ear.
The Sound: The hard lacquer outer shell adds structural rigidity to the acoustic chamber. This reduces cabinet vibration and reflects high frequencies inside, resulting in faster transient speed, tighter bass control, and laser-focused micro-detail retrieval.
🛠 Handcrafted Precision in Every Grain
Whether it’s Koyo’s raw, uncoated organic authenticity or Serenity’s striking visual depth and crisp detail definition, each pair is an individual work of acoustic art—no two shells are ever identical.
👇 Which aesthetic and sound profile speaks to you more?
Drop a 🍁 for the raw organic Koyo or ✨ for the glossy Serenity in the comments below!
Check out more of Koyo from here:
Global: https://www.jomoaudio.com/products/koyo
Singapore: https://lanstar.asia/collections/jomo-audio/products/koyo