Dan Clark Audio

Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Open Planar Magnetic Headphones

Name: Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Open Planar Magnetic Headphones
Brand: Dan Clark Audio
SKU: AEON/2/
Price: 1199 CAD
Availability: OutOfStock

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ÆON 2 Open

Built and tuned by hand in San Diego, California

Dan Clark’s AEON series of headphones have received acclaim for their their sound and ergonomic teardrop shape.

This newest generation sounds even better, with a 2nd generation motor design that bumps up the bass, increases soundstage, and delivers realistic dynamics. It also adds a patented folding gimbal for easy transport in a case that’s half the size.

AEON 2 Open delivers excellent timbre, detail, and soundstage. And it notably does so in a compact, lightweight, and durable design that offers portability and wearing comfort.

Second generation of a legend.

Sharing the ultra-ergonomic cup design of the original ÆON, ÆON 2 incorporates an all-new driver with the advanced tech developed in our high-end ETHER 2 headphone. With big leaps forward in sound quality and portability ÆON 2 sets a bold new standard for sound and comfort in its price class.

New tech, from our house to yours.

Every Dan Clark Audio planar magnetic headphone is powered by a 100% proprietary driver. No off-the-shelf parts stuck into a new enclosure here — our drivers are designed in-house.

A super-efficient transducer keeps weight down by reducing magnet size.
Patented second-generation Trueflow technology improves airflow through the motor, producing a major upgrade in detail retrieval.
Patented V-Planar driver processing textures the driver surface for superior low-frequency performance and improved diaphragm stability.

Bigger sound, smaller case, lighter weight.

Most lightweight headphones are primarily made of plastic, but we wanted to find a stronger, more durable alternative — so we constructed ÆON 2’s headband and baffle entirely out of carbon fiber, aluminum, and titanium. Clocking in at a featherweight 328 grams, ÆON 2 is among the most comfortable headphones on the market, but built to stand the test of time.

ÆON 2 adds a unique and patent-pending feature, a collapsing headband design that allows a banded headphone to fold in on itself to about half its normal size. Rarely can a full-size headphone pack so small, making ÆON 2 perfect to use at home, in the office, or on the road.

Ergonomic design.

ÆON series headphones have a unique and patented design that perfectly marries form and function. The teardrop shape is designed to mirror the shape of your ear, maximizing the experience and comfort of the headphone while minimizing the amount of space and weight required.

The hinge-free headband is made of Nitinol, an alloy of nickel and titanium. This unique material’s properties include superelasticity and shape memory, offering a spring force that remains constant over time and over a larger area, allowing the headphones to fit smaller and larger heads alike.

V-Planar Technology™

A conventional planar driver is assumed to move as a flat surface. In reality, this is not possible as the driver is inelastic and “locked” at the boundaries so the driver moves more like a bowed surface than a flat plane, as illustrated below. Because the surface movement is non-linear maximum excursion occurs only at the center of the diaphragm, but V-Planar technology changes this.

We collaborated with Bruce Thigpen of Eminent Technology to develop V-Planar knurling. This technology deeply creases the diaphragm, allowing the flexibility required to fit larger motions for a deeper, truer musicality. A larger percentage of the driver moves as a flat surface rather than a parabola, which in turn moves more air and allows a smaller driver to perform like a larger one, reducing size and weight. The V-Planar driver allows expansion and contraction of sound without losing fidelity or stretching it too thin as illustrated below, and has the additional benefit of reducing standing wave modalities on the driver diaphragm.

V-Planar is a great example of our California innovation to optimize performance without compromise. It’s not gnarly… it’s knurly! V-Planar can not only push more air at low frequencies, it also delivers better dynamics, high-end frequency response, and measurably lowers distortion for a truly authentic listening experience.

TrueFlow Motor Optimization

TrueFlow technology eliminates turbulence-inducing right angles within a driver’s motor structure for reduced distortion, extended frequency response, and improved dynamics.

What is TrueFlow? All planar magnetic drivers utilize magnets in their motors. These magnets create hard right angles that audio waves must pass through, to their detriment. When sound waves are forced to travel around hard edges this creates diffraction effects (recall your high-school physics where waves hit objects) and also generates reflections that together add entropy (noise and data loss) to the audio wave, reducing detail retrieval and increasing distortion. Loss of information in the audio wave denies the listener the most authentic and organic music experience. We invented TrueFlow technology to directly address this issue.

Derived from our work on electrostatic stator design, TrueFlow technology fills in the area between magnets with a perforated material, eliminating hard right angles so the driver moves air through a flat, perforated surface instead of an array of magnets. The result is a nearly perfect acoustic structure that yields remarkable increases in resolution and dynamics, and extended frequency response.

Performance:

Driver: 62mm x 34mm single-ended planar magnetic
Driver matching: +/-2dB to target curve, channel matched to 0.5dB weighted 30-8KHz
THD: less than 0.3% 20-20KHz, 0.1% 100-8KHz
Efficiency: 94dB/mW
Impedance: 13 ohms
Headband: Nickel-Titanium (Nitinol) memory metal
Baffle: Carbon Fiber
Earpads: Japanese Synthetic Protein Leather
Warranty: two years

In the Box:

ÆON 2 Open headphone by Dan Clark Audio (formerly MrSpeakers)
Carrying case
2 meter "Dummer" cable, 1/8th inch (3.5mm) with 1/4-inch (6.3mm) adapter (special order option: instead of this cable, get a 2 meter XLR cable)
Certificate of authenticity
Manual
Tuning kit

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