Tyll destroying hundreds of dollars in equipment just so he can educate us on planar headphone stuff. I appreciate it, man!

the part where you said 'don't do this at home' was hilarious.

Tyll, don't tell me that you broke a pair of Audeze and HiFiMAN HPs to make this video!! Thanks either way!

Oof. That moment of silence was heartbreaking. When he looked back into the camera it really looked like he needed a hug.

Never heard of planar magnetic drivers before today! Absolutely fascinating and instructional teardown. Thank you!

After watching multiple YT videos on how does planar headphones work - this one is the FIRST (!) that finally explained it's mechanism to me. Thank You Sir! Thank You a lot!

Snazzy Labs brought me here :) Really wondered how they work.

Thank you so much for this awesome informative video. Please keep them coming, as I would love to see more inner workings of other headphones!

Amazing . Thank you for showing the interior. I was curious about how they work

This video is from 13 years ago... now anno 2024 planar headphones are as cheap as 144 euro and come in a gaming headset called the Sony Pulse Elite for the Sony Playstation 5, and I am using them to listen to your video about the technology in this headphones. I doubt my Pulse Elite has goldleaf traces but they sure sound good and a lot more responsive in the entire frequency spectrum, which also clears up the sound stage a lot.

You sacrificed those headphones for us, thank you

You are one of a kind, thank you for all your help throughout the years.

Awesome video!!! I recently became enamored with planar’s when I found their existence! And I know it’s ten years on but I bought a pair of the Drop/Hifiman HE5XX can’s and they sound amazing, but one day I hope to hear a range of the different one’s out there :)

Interesting to see how these things looks inside. Thanks for doing the video.

Awesome video and beautiful (and expensive) physics lecture. Thanks Tyll!

Great video! Just got a pair of he 400's and am in love with them. I knew somewhat how it worked but this helped a lot.

Really instructive video Tyll thanks a lot for sharing ! I own a couple of planar and wondered how they worked well now I know !

Fascinating stuff, thanks Tyll!

It's basically like a Magnepan, but in miniature. However, I think all of their speakers are quasi-ribbon now, but the basic function is the same.

We missed you Tyll!

Really want to thank you for giving us a look at something most of us were curious to see but most likely would never get to.

I appreciate your effort mister. Sorry for your loss of headphones over there...

3:03 "Very fragile" - painful silence...

I Recently Got An IEM Called LetShouer S12 a planar IEM that sounds amazing

I just destroyed a planar driver taking it apart. The magent slipped and streched the diaphragm. Honestly I would have had more fun watching 300 dollars burn.

tHANK YOU SOMUCH FOR putting up this video..its the first time for me get and understanding of Planar Magnetic theory..let alone i heard it only today! i am looking for a wireless in ear head pne system and i was planning to buy the "SA1 W-1 SA1 W-1 Wireless Earphones" unfortunately they are out of stock..it would be wonderful if you can give me any advice on such a device..my requirments are..not high end :-), cost effective, good quality, in ear, wirless :-) thank you thank you thank you

Pretty cool indeed! Thank you very much Tyll! Very good info!

Thanks for the video!

I wonder if the extreme magnetic properties could cause brain cancer after extended use? You saw how powerful and far reaching the field is on these magnets.

Thank you for this video, i am so fascinated with planar magnetic drivers but wouldn't dare try and open up my headphones to see them

Thank u for the video I learned something today 😊

Very informative, subbed.

Very interesting to see how these headphones work.

Tyll I hope you are off on a beach somewhere man! I am taking apart my Hifiman AnandaBT right now. It is covered by 5 plastic ribs that are distorting the sound but I am riskily going to change that!!!

since it's a film with with metal in it, and not evenly distributed. does that mean that certain frequencies will be dampened and some amplified? since the metal has a different resonating frequency then the film? they add (those freq) and will distort the sound in that way and also will change the freq response in unexpected ways due to the metal not really being one piece (which i get you need the current to follow a path to make a field) but atleast make the gaps closer together. are there any freq response test for these things ?

Z reviews brought me here, thanks for the info!!

The film on my he 400s has like dents or ripples in it's diaphram on both sides but different, is that final tuning to match the drivers better? Or do the he400s use faulty he 400i drivers. Maybe my set is faulty but they sound great so idk.

Broke the diaphragm while disassembling the drivers. So absolutely not recommended to do that. The magnets are VERY strong and they snap pretty hard.

I love you for this video, because I would have never done this.

Great video, thanks!

I have LCD-X and left side is dead. I was wondering if I can fix it. I have already taken out the assembly like you have, but I am afraid to go further.

very good video, thank you for this

Thanks! Interesting video! Are there 2 magnet assemblies, with the diaphragm sandwiches between them?

Listening about planar magnetic drivers through dynamic drivers. Irony? I don't know.

now i understand (subscribed!)... does orthodynamic drivers has the same working principle like the planar magnetic driver? how about electrostatic?... please do videos on them. :)

why would they go with gold for the coil instead of the much better conductivity to weight aluminum? is it the glue that is gold colour?

Thanks and is appreciated. Can you please recommend any non-Audeze drivers that can fit in LCD-2? The Audeze repair or replacement drivers are very expensive. Thanks

"I've completely broken this pair", I would rather cry than laugh at that statement

He's trying so hard not to sound sad...It reminds me of when I broke the neck on my Gretsch Double Jet, except there was a lot more more sulking and less dissecting.

'Don't do this at home, I've completely broken this pair... ' Me halfway through the tutorial: O_O

Pretty cool ? It just WOW , i enjoyed the video so much, thank you

How does this magnet differ from the magnet in the Fostex's that are being modified? Do these sound a lot better than the Fostex magnet?

Very enlightening! Thanks for breaking yours so I don't have to break mine!

I respect you!

was looking for earphone planar driver, how is it look a like.. but never found it. i curious about the inside of Shuoer S12 planar driver or the other planar earphone.. bcs it must extremely super thin trace of the driver anddd can someone repair it? 🤯

"dont do that at home" me: "I dont have that at home"

Tyll. I think when he was carefully disassembling the HE6, it crashed into itself due to the magnets and basically $1200 went down the drain in a second. You can see him sniffling quite a bit in this video.

This is fascinating. Question: Does the powerful magnetic field around your head give you superpowers over time? And if the answer is 'yes' what kinds of powers are involved? Would buying a $2000 pair instead of a $500 pair provide me a quicker path to this power?

Thank you

that pain.........

With as bad as the camera work is with the reflections on the diaphragms I can't believe you actually uploaded this after editing it instead of just refilling it so that we could see. It's not like it would take you hours to reshoot it just reshoot that part and throw away this video start over

Lol I find it absolutely freaking HILARIOUS that HiFiMan is STILL, LITERALLY TEN YEARS LATER using those EXACT SAME plastic driver enclosures in brand new products! 🤣 (Like the early 2021 released HE400se's for an example.)

thanks for the video

The Man!

review the he 400i and pls explain to me about the single sided driver

I'm looking for just one magnetic planar panel. Do you have one to spare?

Is there a way to fix this 😅 mine broke do to being 30000 ft in the air....woohoo got that tinny ripple sound...can I pop it back or use glue....

So cool!

why are they in a alternating pattern ?

purely amazing

@avengedtheater Orthodynamic = Yamaha's marketing term for planar magnetic.

How did you break those?

where can i get a pair?

Thanks man; awesome.

I feel with Maggie headphones that's a lot of voltage to have over your ears .

Thanks for your sacrifice 🥰

If the cost wasn't so prohibitive I'd love to get a pair of planar magnetic drivers and make a custom pair of headphones for myself. Sounds like this system is the absolute best as far as headphones go. Looks like for now I'll be sticking exclusively to my UE IEMs though.

@DoctaCosmos Yep he did. They will never sound the same again. But i know Tyl knows how to put them back together but they are now corrupted.

this leads me to believe to if you put a magnet on the outside of the cups, it would affect this isomagnetic field as you've shown. Is this accurate?

You mentioned and showed the "Odyssey 2" driver, is that referring to the Sennheiser Odyssey headphones?

It looks similar to a condenser microphone. 🤔

Very neat. Thanks for the video. Sorry about your headphones!

does the magnetic force gets to the brain?

why you break this he 6?

I think you mean Ron White looks like Tyll.

KZfaq don't pay him...

You look like Ron White.

I would be crying too if i had just ruined a $1200 pair of headphones

"very fragile" not good lol "brittle" lol wow I just bought audeze maxwells, im worried

What is the diaphragm made of?

No me lo van a creer. Pero yo me imaginaba que los audífonos magnéticos tenían una bocina que creo que todos conocemos que es la que tiene cono y un gran imán trasero. Mi idea de audífonos magnéticos era que tenían una bocina con un iman del tamaño del cono pero más comprimido para no tener dos bocinas de microcomponente en los oídos. Y apenas me vengo enterando que solo son unas láminas que parecen una placa de un aparato cualquiera. Osea. Es la primera vez que veo una bocinas así. Es más. No sé si llamarlas bocinas o no se que pedo. Ahora. Mi pregunta es. Cómo mierdas hace para que suenen los bajos o graves??. Osea. En una bocina normal, el cono vibra y se levanta. Pero aquí como coño lo hace????

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You kind of look like Thomas Haden Church. Not meaning to be offensive or anything. Great video though regardless!

It's so weird to hear you talking about hi-fi with such a strong background noise.. But thanks for the info though!

Это ж генка горин!! Вы што хотите слушацц музыку!?!

How did you break those? How rich are you?

i think he is a bit depressed about ruining a good headphone.

"Вы хотите кушац?"

lol don't do this at home:) I guess it's good to see what it's made of and how it kind of works but shame about the headphones being made unusable.

Am I watching a dating sim? :3