[HungryPanda]

Kinden is also a rebrand of Bosshifi.
Kinden WE-BK8 (Bosshifi B8)

 

[peter123]

Final Sonorous uses both BA and dynamic drivers so it's not unheard of.....

http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/fin...-driver-headphones-with-detachable-cable.html

 

[trellus]

Final Sonorous uses both BA and dynamic drivers so it's not unheard of.....

http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/fin...-driver-headphones-with-detachable-cable.html

Curious as to whether you've heard these?

 

[nraymond]

Final Sonorous uses both BA and dynamic drivers so it's not unheard of.....

http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/fin...-driver-headphones-with-detachable-cable.html

Huh, ok that's the only time I've ever heard of a balanced armature driver being used in an over-ear design, but I stand corrected. Looks similar to the 1MORE Triple-Driver over-ear which uses a piezoelectric ceramic plate tweeter in addition to the graphene over mylar dyanmic driver.

 

[peter123]

Curious as to whether you've heard these?

No unfortunately I've never had the chance but iirc they're pretty well regarded.

 

[Roderick]

@slugman was right about the balanced armature drivers after all. There is a dynamic+ba headphone based on B7. It's called i.valux! It is rather expensive ($200-300). There are atleast two versions. One has 4 Ba drivers another one has 6.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32663588753.html?trace=wwwdetail2mobilesitedetail&productId=32663588753&productSubject=MaGaosi-Hybrid-a-Dynamic-four-Balance-Armature-units-wooden-noise-isolating-headband-earphone-headphone

 

[Lurk650]

i.valux and Magaosi are the same company, I used to have an i.Valux Bette which was based off a Magaosi IEM, IIRC. There is even a 3rd "brand" which is part of the company. Damn Chinese manufacturers lol

 

[Roderick]

Was i.valux Bette any good? I find those dynamic+Ba headphones quite hard to believe. Picture I posted had only one visible Ba. And Even that looks weird/fake imo.

EDIT: I've become too cynical. On a closer look there are 4 more ba's visible at the back. Really strange headphones!

 

[Humblepie]

There is also another can that is both over the ear and in the ear in the same design.

 

[mbwilson111]

I used to have an i.Valux Bette

I still have a Bette... 8mm hybrid

 

[Roderick]

There is also another can that is both over the ear and in the ear in the same design.

nuraphones? Headphone engineers don't have it easy If they wan't to create something that has not Been done before. Just last week I learned they used to built plasma headphones in the 80's!

 

[peter123]

I don't know but maybe the BAs in full sized headphones play the same kind of role (balancing out the frequency response) that the six passive radiators did in the old AKG Sextett Cardas (still beautiful headphones to this day , just a thought.......

The Bette is a pair of IEM's

 

[Lurk650]

Was i.valux Bette any good? I find those dynamic+Ba headphones quite hard to believe. Picture I posted had only one visible Ba. And Even that looks weird/fake imo.

EDIT: I've become too cynical. On a closer look there are 4 more ba's visible at the back. Really strange headphones!

For its time yes, I sold it a few months ago to another member in a big Chinese IEM bundle. Would be interesting to hear it again now.

I still have a Bette... 8mm hybrid

Yeah there was a 10mm variant which I had, never heard the 8mm but from what I read back then the 10mm trumped it. Quite a comfortable IEM from what I remember

 

[Slater]

BA might not mean balanced armature. It can be a typo. Should have Said Be (beryllium) or it could be Ba(beryllium alloy). Ndfeb means neodiym magnet. Allmost all headphones use those.

Really good point. You can't just slap a BA driver in a headphone and have it work. If you want proof, lay a single BA IEM in the ear cavity of a headphone, and play something from another source at the same time you play something on the headphones theselves. The BA will sound like low volume/muffled garbage static.

Not saying it's not possible, because there are headphones that use BAs.

I'm with you though - I think they meant beryllium or beryllium alloy.

 

[Roderick]

I don't know but maybe the BAs in full sized headphones play the same kind of role (balancing out the frequency response) that the six passive radiators did in the old AKG Sextett Cardas (still beautiful headphones to this day , just a thought.......

The Bette is a pair of IEM's

That is propably what The Ba is for. I just found the idea of 6 ba's bit over The top considering 5 of them have to be behind the baffle.

I had akg k340. Dynamic+electret hybrid. Very similar to sextett but in place of the passive radiators are electret drivers. Very good headphones considering they were introduced in 1979.