Well, at IFA this year, Scottish earphones specialist RHA will launch the first wireless in-ear planar magnetic headphones, which it's dubbing the CL2 Planar.
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Ella has square 50mm planar drivers that the company claims offer the high fidelity that planar headphones can provide without sacrificing the power of dynamic drivers.
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Within each earcup of a planar magnetic headphone, however, is a thin, flat (hence "planar") membrane with conductive material that is moved to and fro by an array of magnets.
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Audeze EL-250 Titanium Magnetic Planar Headphones for $2137 ($3613 off): This is a jaw-droppingly low price for tremendously fancy and expensive planar magnetic headphones that produce beautiful sound with no distortion.
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HiFiMan HE5se Full-Size Over-Ear Planar Magnetic Headphones for $350 ($53 off): This is a rare chance to experience the precise audio resolution of a planar magnetic driver, without a $1,000 price tag.
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The Fusion has three microphones that enable planar 360 audio capture.
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My overall conclusion with these portable planar magnetic headphones is mixed.
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The structure that dominates the slums, though, is the Planar Sphere.
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These headphones might not please audiophiles who prefer open-backed, planar headphones.
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In her paintings, flat planar "cut" shapes are interwoven with translucent passages.
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They use planar magnetic drivers, not the dynamic drivers found in most headphones.
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They use planar magnetic technology — such as you'd find on high-performing headphones from Audeze, MrSpeakers, and Hifiman — though Final has invented its own particular implementation that focuses on delivering more substantial bass than you'd usually get from planar headphones.
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It only represents about 0.125 percent of the planar area of the Milky Way.
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I can't answer that, but I can tell you what planar magnetic technology is.
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But planar magnetic headphones also have a tendency to be huge and hugely expensive.
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Brilliantly, Baldur's Gate II gives the player several options for "solving" the Planar Sphere.
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I designed and built my own pair of speakers with high end parts (planar tweeters).
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By combining planar forms and fake fur, Keister acknowledged the failure of that utopian dream.
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Both companies believe that their lite planar magnetic headphones represent the ultimate in portable listening.
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Sánchez's protruding surfaces stand in contrast to the subtle planar shifts of Julio Suárez's austere monochromes.
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The coolest items might just be the two new pairs of super-affordable planar magnetic headphones.
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In the audio quality category, there's the planar magnetic Oppo, Audeze, Mr. Speakers, brands like that.
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In this oil painting, Lam explores a jazzy hybrid that incorporates Picasso's Africanized Cubism, shattering planar congruity.
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One could say the leaves are irregular forms or planar shapes that crowd the painting's picture plane.
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Working from observation, she strips away details to leave nothing but planar shapes floating on monochromatic fields.
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There's also HiFiMAN, whose HE400S headphones are the cheapest planar magnetic option at the moment at $299.
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It's basically a 30mm planar magnetic headphone with a funnel to channel its sound into your ear.
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With the change in materials, Kiester's planar geometry gave way to sleek amorphic forms with gritty surfaces.
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The company got its start a decade ago producing very expensive, very large headphones with planar magnetic drivers.
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The Oppo PM3s, which also use planar magnetic tech like the iSines, are the perfect example of that.
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The strength of that popularity lies in Audeze's large, custom-designed planar magnetic driver inside each ear cup.
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The idea was to take the planar logic of raised ranch houses and flip it vertically in sections.
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Ms. Wiening, a young drummer, plays original music with a planar, modulating harmonic language and a propulsive drift.
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These random or non-planar orbits are found in the round bulges of spiral galaxies and in elliptical galaxies.
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MrSpeakers' planar magnetic technology has been improving, but it still requires plenty of power to achieve its full potential.
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Instead, the startup is using magnetic planar tracking to track the movement and position of your fingers and joints.
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The paintings remain figurative, but fold into a soft cubism sometimes reminiscent of the planar prisms of Franz Marc.
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The levels are barren and glazed, the shapes are planar, and the rules transparent, making for hours of fun.
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The quest to capture the Planar Sphere in BG2 is one of those, and it's all because of Lavok.
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Now the Audeze Planar Driver and Waves 3D NX technology are coming to set of cans by Kingston's HyperX.
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It is one of the most beautiful sights in the show — with a subtly planar structure seems implicitly modern.
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But if you're not insistent on planar magnetic awesomeness, you can find great sound from vastly cheaper headphones these days.
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The endurance claim is impressive when you consider that planar magnetic headphones typically require more power than conventional dynamic drivers.
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If the player can get Valygar (or his dead body) to the Planar Sphere, then a classic dungeon crawl ensues.
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He also drew on the example of Cycladic statuary, whose stylized, planar surfaces informed his own abstracted heads and bodies.
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The tension between the painting-as-container and the planar forms wedged, as well as layered, into it, is exquisitely tuned.
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"Within memory, the firm has really benefited from the shift from planar NAND to 3D NAND," Morningstar analyst Abhinav Davuluri said.
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Planar magnetic headphones also tend to be a little heavier, though the same could be said of gaming headsets in general.
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They're tiny, MacGyvered versions of a magnetostatic speaker, which consists of wires or metal strips bonded to a thin, planar surface.
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When she bought the land in Wonder Valley, she was in the midst of making a series of sculptures called "Planar Configurations," based on her longstanding fascination with the "planar panel" — basically, anything that is rectangular, whether a 4-by-8 piece of plywood, a 8½-by-18683 sheet of printer paper or a table top.
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Depth and volume are suggested through planar twists and turns and by reading between the spaces of flat wall-to-wall shapes.
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The $700 Ella is the obvious flagship among them, offering the unique combination of planar magnetic technology and a built-in amplifier.
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RHA is certainly pricing its new top-tier product in that same category, asking for $23 / €799.95 / £799.95 for the CL2 Planar.
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The moveable flaps may be placed in a planar configuration to support the display when the housing is in its unbent state.
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Audeze is not alone in its efforts to popularize planar magnetic headphones, and it isn't breaking new ground in terms of pricing.
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In "Shooter 1" and "Shooter 2," Ms. Eisenman gives guns to the large, planar, nearly abstract faces that she has made before.
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He's a vampire who eats his own progeny to stay alive, and entering into his Planar Sphere spells doom for any Corthala.
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"Reason Cybertruck is so planar is that you can't stamp ultra-hard 30X steel, because it breaks the stamping press," he tweeted.
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The broken fragment displays a thick primary fusion crust with flow lines and a heavily shocked matrix with melt veins and planar fractures.
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Planar magnetic drivers deliver cinematic sound, full 3D surround sound modes are supported, and Waves Nx tech allows for real-time 3D processing.
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The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Florida just unveiled its Planar Elliptical Runner (via Engadget), and this robot is all mechanics.
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Planar magnetic headphones are all the rage with audiophiles because they offer low-distortion sound that tends to be very accurate and clear.
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Stay tuned to The Verge for my review comparing them against the Oppo PM3, the established leader in the portable planar magnetic category.
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Instead of a traditional speaker cone and magnet which originates vibrations from the center, planar magnetics are spread out over a larger surface.
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He developed a technique called echo-planar imaging, which could assemble an image in less than a second instead of minutes or hours.
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No longer planar, the bulging edges, dips, and crevices enhance the tangible aspect of the work, and thrust its materiality to the forefront.
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These are the only planar magnetic headphones on my list, and with good reason: planars are typically bulkier and heavier than conventional dynamic cans.
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Planar headphones are similar in concept but use much larger magnets placed on either side of a very thin diaphragm with a conductor attached.
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Mobius 3D boasts planar magnetic drivers that deliver audiophile-grade cinematic sound, allowing you to hear every footstep, gunshot, and rev of an engine.
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Planar magnetic headphones work by pushing a thin diaphragm to generate sound, instead of moving voice coils and cones, as most dynamic drivers do.
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That's the reason it created its Immerge capture system — and then totally re-engineered it from a spherical lens setup to a planar one.
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Try Bowers & Wilkins' stylish P7 or Sennheiser's venerated HD 600, both at just under $400, or HiFiMan's scandalously underpriced HE400S planar magnetics at $299.
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Elliot's remark gave me an unexpected context for reflecting on the faceted, planar forms in Goodman's paintings – their combination of the organic and geometric.
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Planar technology is considered by most to offer more accuracy, but it also commands a price premium, which is what tends to keep it niche.
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Soon, Final will be releasing a pair of planar magnetic headphones, which I tried out at CanJam London last month and was blown away by.
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The M560's are just $200, which as Digital Trends notes, makes them some of the cheapest planar magnetic headphones the world has ever seen.
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The new production lines will make advanced 3D NAND chips, with a stacked cell structure giving them far more storage capacity than conventional planar chips.
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Valygar is a ranger, but his distant ancestor is a necromancer named Lavok, and Lavok is the wizard who originally built the Planar Sphere itself.
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The Planar Sphere even bounces around some planes, demanding that the player and their party adventure out into the Abyss to retrieve a power source.
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In this planar world, "complex numbers" represent arrows that you can slide around with addition and subtraction or turn and stretch with multiplication and division.
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That's partly due to the design of Ella, which includes a built-in 250mW amp, something that Blue notes is an industry first for planar magnetics.
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One of the common downsides of planar magnetic headphones is their weight, and this is an area where the Blue Ella don't really push things forward.
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I'm especially fond of how natural voices sound through these headphones, something that even grandiose planar magnetic monsters like the $3,799 Final D8000 can't improve on.
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The Audeze Sine are the world's first on-ear planar magnetic headphones, replacing the traditional dynamic sound driver with an ultra-thin membrane for greater precision.
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Of the two planar models, Oppo's PM23 does the much better job of sound isolation, and it might even better than most headphones in its class.
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To do that, they created a unique "planar" antenna that provides the range and directionality of a larger parabolic antenna in a fraction of the space.
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Both the PM3 and Sine use planar magnetic tech that relies on an ultrathin membrane instead of the conventional voice coils and cones to generate sound.
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This little device can scale all the way from tiny in-ear buds to the weighty planar magnetic cans from the likes of Audeze and HiFiMan.
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The facade lacks any ornamentation, letting the geometry and large planar surfaces evoke a feeling of modernity and express the separate functions of living and working.
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"We believe most other planetary systems to be like our solar system, in which most of the planets are more-or-less co-planar," Siemion said.
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Everything is tilted, off-kilter, askew — whether it's a planar construction of repurposed plywood, a blue slab of crushed cardboard, or a hollowed-out lump of bronze.
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A set of $499 on-ear planar magnetic headphones isn't something you see every day The world of headphones is full of extravagantly convoluted and obfuscating language.
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Even the audio, which Samsung is pushing via a partnership with Harman that involves bundling AKG earbuds, sounded pretty damn good on my Oppo planar magnetic headphones.
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We loved the sound of Audeze's most recent foray into ultraportable planar magnetics, the Sine, but found them uncomfortable and perhaps iSine 10 will continue that trend.
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Flight is the intuitive answer, but the first planar feathers were probably too primitive for flight or gliding, lacking the distinct asymmetry that makes birds' feathers aerodynamic.
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An early experiment, this painting exhibits a restless grappling with pictorial perspective, as well as a developing penchant for bold, hot colors, exposed brushstrokes, and planar fragmentations.
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These memory blocks are either arranged in a two-dimensional plane (planar NAND) or stacked in a more space efficient column (3D NAND, which is still relatively new).
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I can't say I've necessarily felt deprived of bass response with other planar magnetics, but the D8000 ratchet up both the quality and quantity to an unprecedented level.
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It's still magnetically driven sound reproduction, but the thin film used in planar magnetic models is widely recognized as offering higher accuracy and detail than regular dynamic drivers.
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Once you start running, perform some form of multi-planar (forward-and-backward, side-to-side, and rotational) strength training at least a couple of times per week.
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Audeze just stuffed planar magnetic diaphragms into its new iSine 10 in-ear headphones, which seems like a crazy thing to do if the pictures are any indication.
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Those works grappled with the architectural space of the gallery and the conventions of a rectangular support, merging both geometric and expressive tendencies into a multi-planar site.
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The board, which looks like a quadrilateral that has had a crescent shape incised on two sides, is all planar white surface behind which hides a human figure.
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Those might set you back as much as $43,600 or more, and if you're especially wild, you could lay down $2,495 for Audeze's LCD i4 planar magnetic in-ears.
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The biggest design change would appear to be the new suspension headband, which should hopefully do a better job of distributing the weight of Audeze's hefty planar magnetic headphones.
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Valkyrie is processing what it sees from its LIDAR sensor to then find suitable "planar" regions for stepping on, eventually walking to a point specified by the robot's operator.
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Now for the bad news: although they are built around planar magnetic tech like the rest of Audeze's headphones lineup, the Mobius didn't leave me delighted with their sound.
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You'd have to go to absolute extremes, such as Hifiman's $27,000 Susvara planar magnetic headphones, to find a pair of cans that would feel inadequately powered by this amp.
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This is an exhibition of tensions between the spatial and the planar, color contrasts and tonal shifts, palpable forms and hinted-at spaces, often all in the same painting.
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The ultra-thin 16-micrometer diaphragm inside the CL2s is part of the most compact planar magnetic driver that's ever been released, which took RHA four years to develop.
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Blue's also using the show to unveil two new wired pairs — the Ella planar magnetic and the Sadie, the successor to the original Mo-Fi, which feature 50mm drivers.
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These come from Zittel's most recent series, Planar Configurations and Linear Sequences, both of which are continuations of her lifelong project, A-Z West, located in the California Mojave Desert.
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The Mobius is fitted with planar magnetic drivers, an audio delivery system that conducts sound through a flat diaphragm rather than the coil found in more common dynamic driver headphones.
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Audio geeks will be excited to know the headphones are planar magnetic — typically found in higher quality audiophile headphones — compared with the more common dynamic coil technology that cheaper sets use.
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Like the Ethers, the Aeons are built around custom planar magnetic drivers and offered in a choice of a carbon fiber closed-back design or a mesh-covered open-back option.
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Extra-planar creatures from worlds beyond the one the player came from appear: knights from another campaign setting, murderous halflings, and engine-like golems interact with the player in various ways.
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The rest of the field is taken up with horizontal lines whose insistent flatness resists a perspectival reading of the picture plane, much like Jack Tworkov's planar abstractions of the 1970s.
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The iSine 220 that I'm reviewing today are ostensibly in-ear headphones, but they also use planar magnetic technology from over-ear cans, and they're roughly the size of on-ear models.
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Unlike the majority of headphones on the market, which rely on moving voice coils and cones to push air back and forth to create sound, planar magnetic variants use a thin diaphragm.
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The consensus was that it was theoretically possible, just a lot harder because vertical planes like walls typically have less defining features that allow for easy plotting by a planar detection system.
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Taking planar magnetics down in weight and size is something that Oppo had already successfully done with the $399 PM3s, but it's always nice to see more competition and choice on offer.
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Audeze celebrates the Sine for being the first on-ear planar magnetic headphone, but for my money, I don't see any portability advantage with the Sine over the already established Oppo PM23.
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They're totally customizable and come packed with features like planar magnetic drivers, Waves Nx technology for real-time 3D processing, and anatomy calibration that tailors the sound to you for uncanny accuracy.
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Ultimately, 3D knit structures can become a plethora of sensors and actuators, antennae, and even allow for computer interaction through soft, knit protrusions that serve as buttons, or planar pads for gesture sensing.
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Audeze has long been popular among audiophiles for its planar magnetic-style headphones, and its entry-level LCD-2 model is considered one of the high-end headphone company's best pairs of cans.
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If you've heard of planar magnetic headphones before, it'll have been in the context of large over-ear models or Audeze's entirely unique iSines, neither of which lend themselves to convenient portable use.
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But planar magnetic headphones also tend to be larger, harder to power, and more expensive than conventional designs, which is why they haven't taken over the market in spite of being technically superior.
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Using a standard MMCX cable connection, the CL2 Planar come with a pair of heavy-duty braided cables, one terminating in a 2.5mm balanced connector and the other having the classic 3.5mm plug.
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"The innovative planar feather vane, however, creates a well-defined, two-dimensional surface on which it is possible to create a whole new world of complex color patterns within every feather," Prum writes.
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Carney creates sonic compositions of glitchy glory through a unique process he deems "planar shifting" which involves taking corrupted data, converting it into sound, and then supplementing the ambient results with vibrant glitch GIFs.
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The audio sucks you in, for sure, but in large measure, I'm convinced that's because—new tech aside—those planar drivers are reproducing the audio very accurately, so the headphones sound like a dream.
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The filled Julia set and the planar cap are the raw material for constructing a 220-D shape, but by themselves they don't give a sense of what the completed shape will look like.
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Those planar magnetic in-ears are almost as exotic as Shure's, and I've seen graphs showing they have even lower distortion, but the real difference is that Audeze hits my bass button with aplomb.
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The magical thing about each work, regardless of configuration, is the planar illusion that appears between the lines — the invisible connections that shimmer like sheets of energy shooting from one vertical to the other.
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It's still magnetically driven sound reproduction, but the thin film used in planar magnetic models can be moved in a more uniform, consistent fashion, resulting in higher accuracy, lower distortion, and more crystalline detail.
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Everyone and their cousin are now doing headphones, so it's very easy to be jaded about them, but last year I stumbled upon the Audeze booth and discovered the benefits of planar magnetic headphones.
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Mr. Ortiz adapted some of them from a 2013 concert residency called "Music and Architecture," and they show hints of planar calculation; "Analytical Symmetry" and "Fractal Sketches" are both more engaging than those titles suggest.
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Unlike the vast majority of headphones on the market, which rely on moving voice coils and cones to push air back and forth and thus create sound, planar magnetic cans use just a thin diaphragm.
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The 30mm diaphragm here is still absurd for an "in-ear" headphone — really, the iSine 10 is a small on-ear headphone with a funnel — but it's astonishingly small up against classic planar magnetic headphones.
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The quality of the virtual world was on a par with a nineteen-nineties video game, and when I leaned into the mirror to make eye contact with myself my face was planar and cartoonish.
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Its impressive spec lineup includes planar magnetic drivers for high-quality cinematic sound, Waves Nx technology for real-time 3D processing, and anatomy calibration that adjusts the audio based on the specific user for remarkable accuracy.
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Boasting "leading-edge planar magnetic technology," Audeze's 24-bit "Cipher" cable features an inline system-on-a-chip (SoC) that bypasses the iPhone's internal DAC and amplifier, streaming high-resolution audio with "significantly better" sound quality.
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Usually, in-ear headphones of this price and technology tier are overburdened with multiple sound drivers or, as in Audeze's case, a huge 30mm planar magnetic diaphragm, and so wearing them for hours isn't too pleasurable.
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It's an established fact that traditional loudspeaker cones suffer from distortion when pushed to their limits, which has led companies to experimenting with either exotic materials or entirely different technologies, such as with planar magnetic headphones.
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The iSine 10 costs $399, but if you want to really hear the pinnacle of in-ear planar magnetic funnel technologies, there's also an iSine 20 for $599 in the same shape but with better sound.
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Audeze, the boutique audiophile brand responsible for some of the best planar magnetic headphones in the world, has done what many might have thought impossible and shrunken its technology to fit into an in-ear design.
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The "call to adventure" that the player enacts for Valygar is unjust in that it puts him in far more danger than if he had just continued to live his life far from the Planar Sphere.
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This won't matter for most people, but audiophiles who are looking for a pair of headphones that boast a ton of clarity and detail might want to consider a pair of planar magnetic or electrostatic headphones.
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The vast protrusions emerging from the iSines house a 30mm (1.2-inch) planar magnetic diaphragm, which is basically an ultra-thin sheet that dances back and forth, generating sound waves that are then funneled into your ear.
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They've given me a whole new appreciation for the precision and transparency of planar magnetic headphones like the Audeze EL-8, and I don't think I'll be going back to my computers' native audio sources anytime soon.
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Thankfully, that what's where the standard Cloud Orbit headset comes in, which features the same design, ports, and planar magnetic drivers as the Cloud Orbit S, but without the head tracking tech for $300 instead of $330.
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But these are the same folks who are drawn to open-backed (like the $7503 Grado SR2750e) or planar magnetic headphones (like the $21000 Monolith M-22) which do sound great and don't have to be super expensive.
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These on-ear cans bring Audeze's planar magnetic tech to the smallest, lightest, and most mobile-friendly form that the company has ever produced, and put it in direct competition with the other leading brands in this field.
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On its product page, Apple says these offer "a lifelike listening experience with an extended frequency response that opens up a new breadth of sound" — because they use "a planar magnetic driver instead of a cone-type speaker," obviously.
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The Best Headphones Money Can BuyJude Mansilla and his community of audiophiles over at the Head-Fi forums know a thing or two about …Read more ReadMonoprice has two planar magnetic configurations, the Monolith M560 and the Monolith M1060.
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While the pieces continue to exhibit object-like characteristics in proximity to the viewer, they are equally planar — not an object as much as a sheet or curtain, a creation of other dimensions, close at hand yet never tangible.
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This says that if you have a planar graph (a network of vertices and edges in the plane) that stays connected if you remove one or two vertices, then there is a convex polyhedron that has exactly the same connectivity pattern.
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Ella is the new top-of-the-line model for Blue at $699.99 — more expensive than any of Blue's other headphones by a fair margin, but also a price point that makes them some of the cheaper planar magnetic headphones on the market.
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I've had this summer's two new over-the-ear planar magnetic headphone models from the company — the open-back Ether Flow flagship and its closed-back sibling Ether C Flow — for a couple of months now, and I've grown emotionally attached to them.
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The bad news is that both are available in the familiar sizes of 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of memory — so no 10TB laptops just yet — but the drives claim to offer higher speeds and reliability than a comparable planar NAND SSD.
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For some, this hierarchy won't do; painters in the 20th century consistently questioned their substrates, as in Lucio Fontana's slashes, Lygia Clark's planar constructions, Helio Oiticica's spatial interventions, and Howardena Pindell's incorporation of collage and sewing into the very fabric of the canvas.
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But when applied to data sets without a built-in planar geometry—say, models of irregular shapes used in 23D computer animation, or the point clouds generated by self-driving cars to map their surroundings—this powerful machine learning architecture doesn't work well.
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Hot on the heels of the announcement of the wireless Satellite, Blue is back with two more new headphones to add to its growing lineup: Ella, a planar magnetic headphone; and Sadie, which serves as the next generation of the Blue Mo-Fi-powered headphone.
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During my stay in the cabin, I established a routine determined by the movements of the sun: After daylight nudged me awake around five, I rose from the bed portion of the "Planar Configuration" and unlocked both doors to let in the early cross-breeze.
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When facing a single everyday object with cylindrical or at least partly planar surfaces — like a spatula, a stapler, a cylindrical container of Froot Loops or even a tube of toothpaste — it could typically pick it up, with success rates often above 90 percent.
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