These cans
use planar magnetic drivers to provide a spacious soundscape with clear highs and mids and strong bass, and the company could have charged twice as much for them.
The PM - 3
uses planar magnetic drivers.
The Ella set
uses planar magnetic drivers in an attempt deliver a clearer and more transparent sound than you might be used to on traditional headphones.
Not exact matches
As the name implies, these
use tiny 30 mm
planar magnetic drivers to produce sound which is pretty impressive for a pair of in - ears.
Where more traditional headphones
use dynamic
drivers (like those in loudspeakers), a
planar magnetic design
uses an extremely thin and light diaphragm to reproduce sound.
Unlike the dynamic speakers inside most headphones, which
use a piston - style voice coil to generate sound,
planar magnetic drivers employ a micro-thin membrane, excited by a
magnetic circuit.
That's why I'm a big fan of
planar magnetic headphones, like Audeze's Sine headphones or Oppo's PM - 3, which
use fancy, expensive
drivers and other internal components for incredible precision that more accurately re-creates what engineers hear in the studio.
Unlike the conventional piston - style
drivers we see so often in home speakers and traditional headphones,
planar magnetics use ultra-thin sheets of transparent film with very flat wires running through them.
For those unfamiliar,
planar magnetic drivers use a polymer membrane stretched between two electromagnets to produce sound when electrical current is applied.
The very design of
planar magnetic drivers, which
use a thin membrane excited by a
magnetic coil to produce sound, is part of why they're generally so big.