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Where are all the headphone drivers?

post #1 of 4
4/11/11 at 8:22pm
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I've been searching and searching and have yet to find a good source for headphone drivers.  I'm familiar with the SFI 32 ohm ribbon drivers and taking existing drivers from headphones, but I'm surprised to not find some parts warehouse that has thousands of them.  As readily available and cheap as headphones have got I'm just astounded that there aren't drivers being pushed from a website somewhere. 

 

Any clues?  I'd like to experiment with making my own headphones but would like to see options for the drivers and see if I can mess around with them a bit.  I'm not against the SFI drivers, in fact I'll probably end up getting those just because I like the ribbon sound, but still would like some other options.  

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post #2 of 4
4/11/11 at 9:14pm
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Originally Posted by brandonnash View Post

I've been searching and searching and have yet to find a good source for headphone drivers.  I'm familiar with the SFI 32 ohm ribbon drivers and taking existing drivers from headphones, but I'm surprised to not find some parts warehouse that has thousands of them.  As readily available and cheap as headphones have got I'm just astounded that there aren't drivers being pushed from a website somewhere. 

 

Any clues?  I'd like to experiment with making my own headphones but would like to see options for the drivers and see if I can mess around with them a bit.  I'm not against the SFI drivers, in fact I'll probably end up getting those just because I like the ribbon sound, but still would like some other options.  

 

Check out the Kobitone 25CE500-RO from Mouser. It's a 600 ohm driver with an Alnico magnet that should be suitable as a headphone driver.

 

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post #3 of 4
4/12/11 at 8:17pm
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I'll have a look at that.  It's still pretty amazing to me that drivers aren't more readily available.  If not for consumer level DIY'ers, for the companies wanting to build their own.  I think of how many hundreds if not thousands of different headphones out there and there is few ways to actually make them.  Is it just more cost effective for a company to make a set of headphones to spec and ship them out that way I guess?

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post #4 of 4
4/12/11 at 9:20pm

Planar Magnetic drivers are available on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.ca/SFI-BIPOLE-RIBBON-TWEETER-S-4PC-SETS-EMIT-R-TYPE-32ohm-/370495975288

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