Thekk PLANAR MAGNETIC OPEN BACK OVER-EAR HEADPHONES

HIGH-FIDELITY HEADPHONES FOR PROFESSIONALS AND AUDIOPHILES

The headphones represent the essential tool for the most demanding professionals. The only objective: to be the ultimate tool for high-quality playback. These headphones incorporate a remarkable evolution of the planar magnetic driver and an extremely open design aiming to make the headphones disappear, for the benefit of the sound. These headphones are also suited to the audio equipment of the highest class.

Kennerton 80 mm planar magnetic carbon-fibre speaker drivers deliver the absolute acoustic purity and offer unprecedented levels of clarity and resolution to sound.

The listening experience is outstanding in terms of realism, natural sound reproduction, dynamics, and clarity.

SO WE STARTED MAKING OUR OWN DRIVER FROM SCRATCH.

Our drivers are solely designed and produced in Russia, which involves a facility that also work for the aerospace and military industries, which ensures the highest quality and durability of our headphones.

• A new 80mm planar-magnetic driver, with every aspect of this technology being implemented, such as phase coherence, flat impedance and a low-mass diaphragm.

• Multi-layer 10µm polyimide film diaphragm, tested to have the highest reliability and longevity in the most extreme environmental conditions.

• FEM-Optimized Magnet System with 10 neodymium magnets arranged in symmetric push-pull configuration.

• Unique semicircular bar magnets.

• A semicircular form, therefore, has many advantages over the ordinary rectangular shaped bar magnets: It gives a more uniform magnetic field, greatly reduces internal resonances and produces an optimal sound.

• Our driver allows greater sensitivity, thanks to its powerful magnets and low-mass diaphragm. It can therefore be easily driven by portable devices.

THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF STANDARD WOODEN CUPS

1. All wood types used for making the headphones’ assembly and cups always undergo multiple different processes. We use drying and coating methods which have antibacterial substances making the cups pleasant to look at and resistant against environmental factors.

2. Our wooden cups are made by a specific in-house developed procedure. The wood types and geometry of acoustic design influences the sound and we, therefore, take this into account when producing and designing our cups.

3. Cups are manufactured by a 3D model on a computer-controlled by a precision machine; the machines have extreme processing quality and geometric shape repeatability.

4. After the milling operation, the cups are sanded and polished by hand.

5. After sanding, wood is coated by using special oils to protect it from humidity and prevent it from deteriorating.

6. After that, the workpieces are processed with microwaves for several minutes in order for the oils on the cups to avoid deterioration.

7. After that, the cups are covered by hot bee-wax and dried in a special drying chamber for about 1.5 hours. Temperatures may reach 74 degrees centigrade (where it varies from 60 to 74 degrees centigrade depending on the type of wood).

8. Drying is followed by the cups being cooled at room temperature for at least 6 hours. The workpiece is ground for the second time, hot wax is again applied; which is again followed by drying the cups at the same temperature 74 degrees, for about 8 hours.

9. The closing stage of the work includes thorough polishing of the cup, laser engraving of the logo and other elements as per the design. In some cases, patina forming treatment is applied for a decorative finish that makes the surface look perfect. Note: Each pair of headphones is one of a kind, and due to the nature of handwork, slight variations in wood grain may occur.