Basically, everything about this company, this product and the whole way they've been doing the Indiegogo campaign, smells like scam. And hey've been post-poning the launch of this product basically since always from the original planned delivery date.
The "company" has been very reluctant to announce any technical specs of the headphones when first asked to, and when asked for them repeatedly they provided what really look like made-up answers.
Also, no working prototype of this product has ever been seen by someone not of the company (not the norm when you're doing a crowdfunding launch).
Plus, the product has some features that would literally be impossible to build in a product in 2022, no matter how many patents they claim they have, some of the features they announced would require literally BILLIONS of dollars in research and development to overcome some physics limits that there are and that would prevent them to implement such features.
Not to mention, that if a company was to launch such a breakthrough product, they wouldn't be doing so at the price that they're "selling" these headphones at (less than $250 per unit), as it wouldn't even cover the manufacturing costs, let alone all of the R&D money that they would have spent to get to be able to actually develop and engineer a product like this one.
Also, all images from the campaign page, videos, and website, look like marketing material made by a contractor taken on sites like Fiver.
Now, if you were somebody thinking that I can be someone from a competing company, just trying to discredit "TiTum Audio Inc." for my own benefits, you could argue that all I've written above is subjective stuff that I am just making up.
So, in addition to that, let me bring you some clear points that would be very difficult to dispute:
- there's nothing known about this company, TiTum or "TiTum Audio Inc." is not registered in any companies office or reputable work-related social platform (LinkedIn, etc)
- there is not a single known employee of this company, in the Indiegogo campaign they mention only two names of two people under the "TiTum Team" section, and both could be considered (in case of an actual company) just "external collaborators" (one is a uni professor, one is a music producer, my best guess is that those people are just being used for advertising purposes, and it's most likely that neither of those two man are really aware that this company is using their names to try and create credibility - instead, in the best case, what happened is that the company reached out to them asking for permission, and they just gave them permission probably under the payment of a fee, and they didn't take time to investigate what the company was, assuming that these two men granted permission to use their names in good faith trusting the ethic of this company, unaware of the scam behind it). Still, we don't know who (and when and where) founded the company, who's actually working within TiTum Inc, their past employment history and what "credit" they have to the ability of being able to found a company and develop a product such as these headphones with the features they claim they'll have
- again, ASSUMING that this company actually is founded by actual people, somehow has got all of the billions of $$ needed to develop a product like the advertised TiTum Headphones... then why haven't they registered not even the trademark of "TiTum"? The cost for registering the trademark of the product/brand/company would be peanuts compared to the budget they would have had to develope the (literally) "physics-breaking" technology that would allow the headphones to do what they advertise them as capable to do, and should we believe that they just "forgot" to register the trademark? You can consult the WIPO Global Branding Database (https://www3.wipo.int/branddb/en/), which takes data from the most reputable sources of all trademarking agencies all over the world from most of the civilised countries, and there's nothing registered as "TiTum" or any variant of that. Also, in the Indiegogo page they call "Truly Transform® Technology" the developed technology that allows their headphones to "transform" their sound. Well, they specifically included the Registered Trademark symbol "®" and... you can guess it... there's actually no registered trademark for "Truly Transform" or "Truly Transform Technology". So why are they lying on that, if it's not a Registered Trademark, why bother putting the ®, if the reason wasn't to just try to create "authenticity" in the Indiegogo campaign?
I am deeply sincerely sorry to be the bearer of bad news - but please, if you're reading this and you've put money in their campaign, contact ASAP Indiegogo to ask for a refund if that's possible.