In our series featuring the design and technical aspects of our bluetooth earbuds, headphones, and speaker, we speak with members of our product team to learn more about what goes into the engineering of our premium audio products.
Today we talk about beryllium, a material used in our wireless sound tools including the MW08 Active Noise-Cancelling True Wireless Earphones, MW65 Active Noise-Cancelling Wireless Over-Ear Headphones, MW07 True Wireless Earphones and MW50+ 2-in-1 Wireless Headphones. The first product we created using beryllium drivers was the MW50+.
So why beryllium?
“When designing the transducers that play a pivotal role in our headphones and earphones, we want the right combination of weight and stiffness/rigidity”, Thomas Wilson, Director of Product Design, explains. “Headphones and earphones with a light but stiff diaphragm allow you to reproduce sound more accurately. Essentially, you want it to act like a piston. If it’s not stiff enough, it’s going to flex and distort—and that translates to distortions in sound. And if it’s not light enough, it’s going to have a hard time moving back and forth fast enough to produce the frequencies that we want our headphones and earphones to produce.”
