Reference Headphone · R1

Hear what the engineer heard.

A 50mm beryllium driver in a machined aluminium chassis, tuned flat to the reference curve. No colouration, no fatigue. Just the master, unedited.

Buy the R1 Read the spec$899

5Hz-45kHz

Frequency response

50mm

Beryllium driver

38 hr

Battery life

-42dB

Active noise floor

Engineered in the open.

Beryllium, not because it is exotic

Beryllium is lighter and stiffer than titanium, so the diaphragm moves without flexing. The result is transient detail you can hear, not just measure.

A chassis milled from one billet

Each cup is cut from a single block of aluminium over four hours, then bead-blasted by hand. No plastic seams to resonate, no rattle at volume.

Adaptive noise floor

Eight microphones sample the room a thousand times a second and cancel it without touching the music. The quiet is total, and it never breathes.

Tuned to reference, not to trend

We tune flat to the Harman reference curve and stop there. If a mastering engineer approved it, this is how they heard it.

The range

R1 Reference

$899

R1 Studio

$1,290

E3 In-Ear Monitor

$449

S2 Desktop Speaker

$1,650

Sixty nights to change your mind.

Every Resonance ships free, insured, and with a sixty-night home trial. Send it back for a full refund if it is not the last pair you buy. Five-year warranty, serviced by us.

Buy the R1

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Phone

+1 415 555 0192

Studio

Pier 9, San Francisco