A friend of mine shared the information on some headphones that have no moving parts. They certainly sound like an interesting technology and he reckons, having heard them, that they’re amazing.
I’d be interested how they compare to other top-flight models from the likes of Focal etc but at just under £10,000 they’d better be outstanding!
Search for “massless plasma headphones”.
They are made in the UK.
There has been talk about plasma headphones ever since plasma tweeters were produced. I wnder how good this really is. Have to wait for some reviews…
I’ll wait for long term reviews.
I don’t think I want plasma anything near my eardrums.
Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder here. Their website says the design is inspired by art deco, I’m afraid I really find it unattractive. Maybe it’d be better in the flesh.
Looks like some medieval toture implement.
They do describe them as being influenced by “steampunk” and art-deco…
See no issue with the looks. Beauty always in the eye of the beholder.
Fascinating, for a headphone freak like me, always in search of the perfect pair of cans.
Hunting around his site, this looks like a one man band kitchen table company, as they build to order. The Safety precautions tab put me off. Nobody has reviewed them not even Head Fi.
The only thing I found on the web was their site. But the web does throw up some cool weird stuff.
How about the long forgotten Norman Pass Massless Speaker
He later said: “It was the perfect high end audio product: Exotic, inefficient, expensive, unavailable, and toxic.”
Or, this one by Dr Alan Hill and his company Plasmatronics produced who a speaker type (T-3500) in 1980, the upper section of which worked on the principle of ionization. Although the development took 20 years, Mr. Hill was unable to produce frequencies below 700 Hz with his plasma speaker.
There have been various attempts at making plasma speakers over the years, with the Corona tweeter possibly still being available:
Also some products described as ion rather plasma, such as the Acapella, though offhand I’m not sure with any of these where the distinction lies.
The difficulty is moving enough air to do low frequencies, but as earbuds demonstrate not much movement is needed to produce bass if close coupled to ear. How well achieved with the headphones in question I don’t know.
Brilliant 
Then there is this, described as a bluetooth musical Tesla coil. Not a hifi product at all, and I’ve only posted because it looks to be a fascinating gadget to have! (Now I wonder if you could make headphones out of a pair of these…)
