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What is the advantages of wooden headphone?


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The advantage to the owner of wooden headphones is that they can look nice. In some instances REALLY REALLY nice.

The advantage to the builder is that shaping a headphone cup or driver support ring out of wood doesn't require the tooling that carving one out of aluminum would, and doesn't require the really expensive dies that making them from plastic or die-cast alloy requires. Look at Audeze- to tool up for plastic molding dies for their 'phones would probably have been so costly they wouldn't have been do-able, but using wood worked out well for them.

Wood also has some self-damping qualities, it tends not to ring. That's a good thing. Many plastics can be found that also damp nicely. Metal can be damped depending on what you glue or bolt to it. So, while wood is not unique in being OK in terms of damping, it is among the materials that can suitable for earcup fabrication because it generally won't ring like a bell the way some materials might. For example, a thin steel stamping might not be the best earcup... or a glass dome...ring like bells, they would.

By the way I am introducing to the market a new WOODEN CABLE for the HD800......

Edited by Milosz
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