Dan Clark Audio AEON 2 Noire
Eight rigs draw the same curve, owners love how it wears — and almost everything that curve does to the treble, the slam and the value is still argued over.
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Dan Clark Audio
Planar-magnetic headphones & AMTS tuning
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Dan Clark Audio is an American headphone maker based in San Diego, California. Founded by Dan Clark as MrSpeakers in 2012 and renamed Dan Clark Audio in 2019, it specializes in planar-magnetic headphones — the closed-back AEON and Noire lines and the flagship ETHER, STEALTH and EXPANSE — and developed the AMTS (Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System) waveguide used to shape their high-frequency response.
- Founded
- 2012
- Based in
- San Diego, California, USA
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Dan Clark Audio E3
Near-unanimous on its open-sounding stage and resolution — and argued over nearly everywhere else, from the upper mids to the clamp to the price, with where it sits on your head settling more of the argument than taste.
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Dan Clark Audio Stealth
The closest thing to a settled measurement — and an argument about slam that it never settled.
17 sources5 divided topics
Dan Clark Audio Expanse
The best-measuring open-back one lab had ever tested — and the graph still doesn't settle the argument.
14 sources5 divided topics
Dan Clark Audio Noire X
A compact closed-back planar tuned to Harman with a lively lift — near-unanimous on comfort, build and imaging, argued over from the bass to the treble to how much amp it needs.
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