Headphones that make your streamed music sound more realistic.
Introducing écoute, the world's first and only headphones to use a built-in vacuum tube amplifier to bring back the missing warmth and realism of the original recordings to your streamed and mobile listening experiences.
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Digital audio sounds better with écoute.
Streamed and wireless audio signals are compressed in a lossy process which leaves your music sounding flat. The characteristic even-order harmonics of our vacuum tube amplifier smooths over the gaps left in the audio signal from compression making your music sound warmer, richer and more realistic.
The increased gain from the vacuum tube also adds clarity to the midrange where our ears are most sensitive revealing layers of detail in the instrumentation you may never have noticed before and makes the vocals sound more realistic—realism you only get from a vacuum tube.
"It sounds to me
like I am listening
on vinyl."
Eric Michael Robertson
Musician/Sound Engineer
Pleasant Pictures Music Club
"It has such a live feel to it... you feel like you are in the room."
Sam Cannon
Owner: 3hive record Lounge
"The strongest, clearest mids I've ever heard on headphones."
Jason Johnson
Vinyl Enthusiast
Sounds like a high-end rack system because it's designed like one.
Other headphones use a single off-the-shelf chip to do most, if not all, of the signal processing on a single circuit. écoute headphones are designed differently with individual dedicated components at each step of the signal conversion—a solution normally reserved for high-end rack systems and unheard of in headphones.
This solution allows us to bring together the best component at each stage of the signal path to ensure a superior listening experience.
Realtek ALC4050 32-bit,
384kHz Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
Known for its spacious soundstage and for delivering realistic and musical tones across the board from a neat and airy treble, through detailed and textured mids, and into deep and lush bass.
Nutube 6P1 Dual-Triode Thermionic Valve
(Vacuum Tube Amplifier)
Creates a listening experience with a lifelike, full-bodied presence that sounds less like your music is being reproduced by audio equipment and more like it is being played right there in front of you.
Custom 40mm Cellulose Fiber
Transducers (Speakers)
Designed to take advantage of our meticulous signal path with a patented motor drive system that ensures an accurate and linear response to avoid thermal compression artifacts.
Designed for those who listen, and listen a lot.
• Aluminum body that's as durable as it is beautiful
• Cooling memory foam ear pads for all-day comfort
• Listen either wirelessly via Bluetooth or 3.5mm AUX cable
• Shock-resistant vacuum tube has a 30,000+ hour service life
When you truly listen,
the details matter.
écoute headphones completely change the presentation of your music by revealing a level of detail and realism you’ve never before experienced from headphones.
Your streamed and wireless listening experiences can now sound as rich as they do on your home hi-fi system.
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