Designing headphones always involves a balancing act between sleek, space-saving aesthetics and uncompromised acoustic performance.

This White Paper highlights the core challenges that arise when industrial design ambitions interfere with critical driver functions—particularly acoustic venting and airflow management. It explains how improper design choices can lead to distortion, degraded sound quality, and misleading “true” height specifications.

We also present a new low-profile 40mm driver solution that eliminates these trade-offs. Designed to fit seamlessly into even the most compact headphone concepts, it offers industrial designers the freedom to push aesthetics further, while guaranteeing the consistent, high-quality audio experience engineers demand.

To read the full paper, you can download it here.