Forty-two decibels of nothing
Eight microphones sample the cabin 48,000 times a second. The engine drone goes first, then the seat-back rattle you stopped noticing years ago.
Simulated cabin noise · plays through your speakers
Limited series — 500 numbered units
Nova X1
Obsidian
Closed-back reference monitor. Numbered on the yoke.
Obsidian
$349USD · FREE SHIPPING
Transducer
40 mm driver
Beryllium-coated diaphragm.
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✦ Anatomy
Taken apart
on purpose
Eleven components. Four you can hear. Keep scrolling to separate the assembly.
01 / SuspensionHeadband6063 aluminum, anodized. 24 g of the total 286 g.
02 / EnclosureCup shellCNC-milled, sealed. Tuned as a resonant chamber, not a lid.
03 / Transducer40 mm driverBeryllium-coated diaphragm. Matched pairs within 0.4 dB.
04 / InterfaceCushionSlow-rebound foam, protein leather. Twist to swap.
Assembly
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✦ Engineering
Four decisions
you can hear
Everything else is packaging. These are the parts that changed how it sounds.
Sixty hours, then five minutes
A full charge outlasts a week of commutes. Five minutes on USB-C returns five hours — enough to leave for the airport without thinking about it.
Eighteen milliseconds
Below the threshold where your eyes catch the mouth moving before the word lands. aptX Adaptive holds it there over a crowded 2.4 GHz band.
Aluminum, foam, no plastic hinges
The pivot is a machined knuckle with a steel pin — the part that fails first on everything else. Cushions twist off in a quarter turn and ship for $19.
✦ Measured
The whole sheet
Measured on unit 004 in an anechoic chamber at 1 m, 94 dB SPL. Your pair ships with its own card.
✦ Field notes
Ninety-six
testers
The closed field-test program ran February through June. Testers kept their units and were not paid. These are unedited.
4.7/5
96 verified reviews
Field-test program · Feb–Jun
✦ Before you reserve
Questions
we get
✦ Personalisation
Put your
name on it
Your unit number is etched into the left yoke at the factory. The right cup is yours — up to fourteen characters, laser-etched before it ships. Type below and watch it land on the product.
0/14
A–Z, 0–9, spaces and periods. Engraved units are final sale.
✦ 347 of 500 left
Then it's gone
No restock, no second run, no “X1 Pro” in eight months. The molds are destroyed after unit 500.
Your unit · #0348