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The Craft of Titanium

Mika Sorensen

Head of Industrial Design

January 30, 2026
The Craft of Titanium

Titanium does not want to become a headphone. It resists the tools, dulls the bits, and demands patience most manufacturers are unwilling to spend. That resistance is exactly the point.

Strength without weight

Grade-5 titanium gives us the stiffness of steel at nearly half the mass. A stiffer frame means the acoustic chamber never flexes, so the driver plays into a stable, silent structure.

We chose the harder material so the sound could be easy.

— Mika Sorensen

Each yoke is machined from a solid billet over the course of forty minutes, then hand-finished. It is slow. It is deliberate. It lasts a lifetime.

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