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Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

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The ultimate acoustic experience? The natural one: where sound reaches your ears through the open air, from a source right in front of you. It’s not a difficult concept to wrap your head around. In the history of headphone design, however, it’s proven difficult to wrap it around your head. Until now. Meet the Drop + grell OAE1 Signature: a groundbreaking pair of headphones with game-changing driver geometry and an ultra-expansive soundstage.

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An Open-Back Revolution

The ultimate acoustic experience? The natural one: where sound reaches your ears through the open air, from a source right in front of you. It’s not a difficult concept to wrap your head around. In the history of headphone design, however, it’s proven difficult to wrap it around your head. Until now. Meet the Drop + grell OAE1 Signature: a groundbreaking pair of headphones with game-changing driver geometry and an ultra-expansive soundstage. Working in harmony with the body’s innate process for perceiving stereo sound—where we face audio sources so that they’re directly in front of us—the OAE1 Signature positions its drivers further out and in front of the ears to create a soundfield that’s stunningly natural. It’s an innovative yet undeniably intuitive acoustic concept that grell founder and lead designer Axel Grell first implemented in high-end Sennheiser headphones like the HD 800. In the OAE1 Signature—with its uncompromising materials, meticulous tuning, and wide-open earcups—he’s perfected it. 

Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

Note: The Drop + grell OAE1 Signature is limited to 1,000pcs. All orders, including international orders, ship free. Shipping discount is automatically added at checkout. 

Innovative Driver Placement: As Nature Intended

Study the structure of the human ear, or simply watch people listen to different sources out in the real world, and you’ll see that our bodies are built to intake stereo audio in a specific way. That’s facing the audio source, with soundwaves reaching the pinna (the ear’s external structure) at an angle from the front, rather than directly from the sides. Undoing the tradition of unnatural headphone driver positioning, the OAE1 signature puts its ultra-responsive biocellulose drivers in front of the ear and further away from it, angling each one back to send sound to the pinna much like a natural stereo source. This positioning also reduces unwanted reflections from the membrane and magnet structure, helping improve fidelity and reduce listener fatigue. And where past attempts to implement similar positioning (such as the historic AKG 1000) have resulted in poor low-end reproduction, the OAE1 signature’s driver design generates impressive bass response due to an onboard acoustic baffle.

Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

Expansive Soundstaging, Expansive Compatibility

With its revolutionary driver design, the OAE1 signature was already well on its way to a wide-open soundstage. But the goal was to create the most open open-back headphones on the market—and you don’t get there by stopping at the drivers. Widening the soundstage even further, Axel Grell and his team developed earcups that are 90-percent open metal mesh and a woven stainless steel acoustic damper mesh, both of which allow sound waves to pass through with minimal interference. It’s an ultra-expansive soundstage—and it’s rivaled only by the OAE1 signature’s ultra-expansive compatibility. Wired to accept both dual- and single-entry cables, each earchup features a socket design to accept a 2.5-millimeter plug. (An integrated overhead wire allows for the input signal to be shared between both drivers when using a single entry cable, which means you can connect a single-entry cable to either side.) For versatile listening out the box, the OAE1 signature also comes with a double-sided TRS single-ended cable (dual-entry) and a single-sided TRRRS balanced cable (single-entry), both with silver-coated, oxygen-free copper wiring.

Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

Grell: Going Further for Audiophiles

Axel Grell created some of Sennheiser’s finest headphones—including our very own HD 6XX and HD 58X, as well as models in the high-end HD 800 Series. Over the past several years, he’s been hard at work founding his own company to take his innovation, and motivation, even further. “I've always tried to create the best possible acoustical experience for the money, no matter the price point,” Axel says of his approach. “With grell, we put our resources solely into achieving the best sound possible, emphasizing the acoustic experience of the product and providing audio that is fine-tuned to the user’s ear.” With world-class products already behind him, we can only expect his next releases to raise the bar even higher. That’s why we’re proud to be the first brand to partner with grell—and why we couldn’t be more excited for future launches—to elevate the audiophile experience together.

Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

Specs

Headphones

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  • Headphone type: Open-back
  • Ear coupling: Over-ear
  • Drivers: Biocellulose dynamic drivers 
  • Sound characteristic: Front oriented diffuse field equalization
  • Adaption to the individual hearing curve: Soundfield pinna interaction
  • Nominal impedance: 38 ohms
  • Frequency response: 12 - 32,000 Hz (-3 dB), 06 - 44,000 Hz (-10 dB)
  • Sound pressure level (SPL): 106 dB (at 1 kHz 1 VRMS)
  • Total harmonic distortion (THD):  0.05% (at 1 kHz 100 dB)
  • Weight (without cable): 375 g

Cable 1

  • 6 ft (1.8 m) Double-sided, silver-coated OFC cable
  • Connectors headphone side: 2.5 mm TRRS
  • Connector device: 3.5 mm stereo plug
  • Adaptor: 3.5 mm to 6.3 mm, screw-on

Cable 2 

  • 6 ft (1.8 m) Single-sided, silver-coated OFC cable 
  • Connectors headphone side: 2.5 mm TRRS
  • Connector device: 4.4 mm Balanced TRRRS stereo plug

Included

  • Cable 1: 6 ft (1.8 m) double-sided TRS single-ended cable (dual-entry)
  • Cable 2: 6 ft (1.8 m) single-sided TRRRS balanced cable (single-entry)
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones
Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

RETURNS—NO QUESTIONS ASKED

We get it. Sometimes what you ordered just doesn’t work out. If that’s the case for you, don’t fret! All customers (both US and international) may return this item in new, unused condition within 30 days of delivery.

Shipping

Estimated ship date is July 10, 2024 PT.

Payment will be collected at checkout. Cancellations are accepted up to 2 hours after checkout for in-stock items, or up until pre-order ships.

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Is the headband padding going to be replaceable? Over time it's generally the padding on this type of design that I end up replacing or swapping out for an aftermarket solution (Sennheisers were pretty friendly in that regard and other brands have suspension headbands you can replace). I found the Panda's headband to be lacking but couldn't really do much with it since the band was generally too thick top to bottom but also too narrow front to back to wrap an aftermarket solution around. Edit: I read a Reddit comment that stated the cushion snaps together and it should be replaceable with aftermarket options.
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All pads (ear-pads, head-cushion and headband cover) are user replaceble.Read More
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Will there be a 4 pin XLR balanced cable available for this? Alternatively, if I were to order one from another company, would I want a single sided cable, TRRRS (4 pole?) 2.5mm to 4 pin XLR? It's important for me to get it right, as my main amp (Nitsch DSHA-3FN) is balanced only, and any mis-wiring of the cable could short out the amp! That would not be good...
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Yes, there will be a 2.5mm to 4 pin XLR cable as an accessory from grell. It is a high quality silver plated ofc cableRead More
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What is the magnet strength of the biocellulose driver?
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The flux density is about 1 Tesla (the most dynamic drivers have flux density between 0.6 and 1.2 Tesla).Read More
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