You can see the render of these three headphones side by side, obviously just a virtual representation of how I'd want them to look one day, the prototypes look a little different because of different materials, but they are based on these actual designs, meaning these renders are of actual solid, fully designed headphone assemblies with actual functioning parts, they're not just pictures.įor now, I'll show the V1 model in more detail, yea I know, it's a very boring name. Two of the models I'll eventually present are entirely built around the concept of a modular headphone platform, with all of their parts individually replaceable, suited for use with multiple drivers and with various sound tuning options possible. I think the most interesting part will be the concept of modular headphone platforms that I've spent most of the time working on. I have a lot of material I can present or talk about regarding those topics, if there will be interest for it. Over the period of these couple of years, I've invested over 2000 hours into the project itself, so it's quite big at this point with a lot of depth and aspects to it on top of just the headphones, including detailed testing of state-of-the-art additive manufacturing technologies and materials, post-processing raw printed parts to look great, etc. I've designed multiple headphones during this project as a part of the learning process, but I'll present three models for now, or their "proof-of-concept" prototypes. So please take that into consideration, as everything in this project has been done "on the side", with a very limited budget, and by teaching myself how to do things from scratch as I went along, so not everything about it will be perfect, although that's something I strive for. It also helped me to kinda run away from the daily university routines, and it's been sort of a transition from drawing/sketching style of design that I've been into since I can remember, to a more 3D/CAD style combined with 3D printing. So, I'm not a part of some company or some big team of people, I'm just a single guy with a lot of passion for headphones, with quite a lot of previous experience with headphones (owned multiple flagships, tested a bunch of them, written reviews, etc.), and with a crazy goal of designing and building my own headphones in exactly the ways that I want, lucky to be living in times where modern technologies actually enable me to invest creative energy into this hobby and end up with something real. I won't spend a lot of time talking about the project background, because I'll talk about that and more about the project itself in more detail separately if there will be an interest for it, but it's something I've been working on for more than three years at this point, completely alone, in my free time while not busy in medical school. I hope you'll like it and have as much fun exploring it as I've had working on it, and I hope the material I'll share will at least partially show how much passion is behind the project, as that's what DIY is all about. The project is not finished, it's still evolving, but it's kinda grown way past the size and depth that I've originally planned for it. I've been working on a DIY project of designing and building my own headphones for quite a while now, and I'm at a point where I feel like I have some interesting material to share, maybe get some feedback, opinions, criticism, etc., and maybe even have other members of the community get involved.
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