{"id":135417,"date":"2021-08-24T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=135417"},"modified":"2021-08-24T19:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:30:40","slug":"dan-clark-audio-stealth-first-closed-planars-in-the-amrs-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/headphones\/dan-clark-audio-stealth-first-closed-planars-in-the-amrs-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Clark Audio Stealth: First closed planars in the AMRS system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stealth Closed Planar Headphones have been\u00a0announced as the\u00a0next flagship model by <a href=\"https:\/\/danclarkaudio.com\/dcastealth.html\">Dan Clark Audio.<\/a>\u00a0According to the manufacturer, it took four years to develop them, which resulted in &#8220;setting a new standard for sound quality and headphone ergonomics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The matte black and red Stealth is crafted from carbon fiber, nickel-plated titanium and aluminum in the cups and hinges, with a leather headband and faux suede ear cushions.\u00a0The headphones inherits the mechanics of the self-adjusting headband from the Aeon 2\u00a0, weighs 415 g and fits into a completely compact case.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/7f8cb83-aaf2-4645-8061-25d236c32d6e.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"974\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 4th generation v-Planar ribbon asymmetric drivers in the Stealth headphones work through the AMRS system.\u00a0Dan Clark Audio described it as &#8220;a patented embedded device that combines waveguides, diffusion control, quarter-wave resonators and Helmholtz resonators into one compact structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/9c8a81f-ccc7-4cc3-9a33-b7f28086d1d5.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"339\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These headphones have a declared distortion of less than 0.03% at 1 kHz and 90 dB SPL.\u00a0The model is handcrafted in the USA (in San Diego, California).<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/544c8ae-305d-4741-bebd-02cdff2fa3e0.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the US, the Dan Clark Audio Stealth headphones cost $ 4,000.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stealth Closed Planar Headphones have been\u00a0announced as the\u00a0next flagship model by Dan Clark Audio.\u00a0According to the manufacturer, it took four years to develop them, which resulted in &#8220;setting a new standard for sound quality and headphone ergonomics.&#8221; The matte black and red Stealth is crafted from carbon fiber, nickel-plated titanium and aluminum in the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/headphones\/dan-clark-audio-stealth-first-closed-planars-in-the-amrs-system\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":135423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-135417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headphones","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}