many tom’s hardware Readers are familiar with building PCs, customizing or building mechanical keyboards, and even 3D printing weird components. Her Canadian girlfriend Ploopy wants to jump on this adventurous high-tech DIY trend and bring her audio fans to enjoy headphones based on open source designs. hopeful “Out of the Box Studio Monitor Frequency Response”
Cans with funny names are now available in a variety of forms From the Ploopy shopYou can get a complete kit of components for $150 CAD or a fully assembled set of headphones for $300 CAD. We also offer a headphone refresh kit with new pad parts that are convenient for maintenance. (All headphone products for sale are pre-order only at the time of writing.)
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Importantly, you don’t have to buy anything because it’s suitable for open source community-driven projects like this one. Ploopy provides links to source code, documentation and all instructions. So you can build on Ploopy’s design and firmly embrace the DIY and maker philosophy.
It takes some patience. You have to get some steps right at first and you need to be good with your soldering iron.
So what do you get when you make or buy these headphones? Ploopy is pretty confident in its audiophile claims. This is likely driven by her Reddit endorsement of audiophiles. community Moved the project from concept to creation. The planar magnetic design open-back headphones with built-in DAC and EQ are said to provide listeners with studio-quality audio. Behind this claim lies the use of 3D-printed metamaterials and digital signal processing provided by the PCM3060 DAC. The DAC and RP2040 controller work in unison to provide 24-bit audio with up to 192kHz sampling and up to 6 digital filters of your choice.
Will Ploopy’s first headphone product have audio on par with the IBM PC standard? Probably not, but wandering around with a 3D printer isn’t a bad way to go. Additionally, if you liked his Ploopy implementation of this open source headphone project, it might be worth considering that multiple project. trackball and mouse project.
