Dan Clark Audio - ETHER 2 Open Headphones
Indulge in an audio experience like no other with Dan Clark Audio's ETHER 2 Open Headphones. These luxurious headphones from the esteemed Dan Clark Audio brand promise to elevate your listening to new heights. With the unmatched sound quality and comfort of the ETHER 2, you'll feel like you're in a world of premium sound.
Dan Clark Audio - ETHER 2 Open Headphones
Truly designed using the proverbial "blank sheet" of paper. Instead of designing TrueFlow technology into an existing motor, as with the Dan Clark Audio classic ETHER Flow line, our team designed a completely new motor around TrueFlow to realize major improvements in linearity, dynamics and detail. Couple this increased resolution with a new diaphragm that is nearly 70% lighter ETHER 2 delivers incredible detail, fast, tight bass, and liquid mids culminating in one of the most organic musical sounds you will hear from an audiophile headphone.
Unlike loudspeakers a headphone has a direct physical connection with the enthusiast. The construction affects a headphone sonically but also defines the interface with the user such that the comfort and fit play a major role in creating the final listening experience. As much design time went into the Physicality of the ETHER 2 design as anything else to ensure hours of comfortable musical bliss.
ETHER 2 is Dan Clark Audio's high-performance classic planar magnetic headphone. At only 290grams, ETHER 2 is incredibly light for an all-metal top-of-the-line headphones, ensuring it feels as good as it sounds, and looks.
Dan Clark Audio's ETHER 2 System packaged their acclaimed ETHER 2 headphone with 3 different ear pads which can be swapped anytime to extract 3 unique voicings from one headphone. This lets you customize your listening experience based on music, preference, or just because!
ETHER 2 is the top-of-the-line open-back planar magnetic headphone with a highly optimized driver, motor, baffle, and headband designed to synergistically blend stunningly lifelike sound with the industry-leading comfort and reliability that are the hallmarks of Dan Clark Audio products.
Having introduced their critically acclaimed VOCE electrostatic headphone and their high performance yet affordable ÆON headphones Dan Clark Audio applied what they learned to their ETHER headphone line, implementing a totally new generation of TrueFlow technology in the driver to improve performance.
So what’s the effect on the sound? With the stock earpad as the reference, the suede pad offers a little more output in the bass region and a little more sparkle on top, while the perforated pads deliver the largest soundstage and increase relative bass and treble for a more fun and lively voicing. The stock earpads put the midrange a bit further forward compared to the perforated and suede pads.
ETHER 2 has an entirely new motor designed around TrueFlow technology; rather than designing TrueFlow into the motor as we did with ETHER Flow and the original AEON Flow, we designed the motor around the TrueFlow technology. The result is a major improvement in linearity, dynamics, and detail. And we didn’t stop there.
To make the most of the increased resolution of the motor we developed an all-new diaphragm that’s 70% less aluminum trace weight than the original ETHER Flow driver. As a result, ETHER 2 delivers incredible clarity, powerful, fast bass, liquid mids, and a smooth, balanced top end that’s incredibly resolving yet not at all bright to deliver a coherent, dynamic and remarkably balanced performance.