Drop + Ultrasone Signature X Headphones

Bass is a big deal—especially in today’s music. Many headphones boost bass, but the results can be sub-par, all the way down to subs. In our first collaboration with innovative German brand Ultrasone, we decided to make a pair of headphones with a low-end that’s anything but low-quality. Meet the new Drop + Ultrasone Signature X: your new bass of operations. A variation of Ultrasone’s popular Signature Series Pulse Headphones—designed for DJs, with a sound signature that closely adheres to the bass-emphasized Harman Target Curve—the Signature X keeps its predecessors bass-centric identity, with a new tuning that adds energy to other key areas of the frequency spectrum. Built around an ultra-punchy low-end, the Drop + Ultrasone Signature X gets a few more swings in with sparkling highs and clearly defined mids. It’s a musical experience that hits hard—and it’s bolstered by Ultrasone’s patented S-Logic® technology, which uses ear anatomy to dictate driver placement for more natural-sounding acoustics. It’s the Drop + Ultrasone Signature X: the bass experience you’ve been waiting for.

Getting big bass that’s not off base is equal parts art and science. The result needs to be punchy, not muddy. It needs to appeal to the listener’s bass instincts—without drowning out the rest of the frequency spectrum. In designing with Drop + Ultrasone Signature X, we started with the precedent set by its predecessor: the Signature Series Pulse. That precedent was an adherence to the Harman Target Curve: an “ideal” headphone sound signature based on the aggregate, blind-tested preferences of several trained listeners. With the Signature X, we tightened up the tuning to more closely match the Harman Target Curve in certain areas, while making key deviations in others, like boosting the bass and taming both the upper midrange and presence. Ultrasone also contributed its S-Logic® technology, which places drivers in an offset forward and downward configuration to reach the ears much like a true stereo source. The result is an impressively natural sound, with directions and distances reproduced authentically, free of distortion. You’re not only feeling the bass; you’re feeling it—and everything else—in its proper place.

For nearly 40 years, Ultrasone has stayed true to one mission: creating the perfect headphones, and setting ever-higher standards along the way. Founded in 1985, this German-based company is (and has always been) all about the comprehensive approach, designing all of its headphones from scratch—with the research to back up every build. Technologies like S-Logic®, which improves driver acoustics, and ULE, which reduces driver electromagnetic radiation, were developed as a result of Ultrasone’s unwavering commitment to creating the best headphones possible. Innovation aside, the company is also committed to uncompromising quality, manufacturing nearly all of its headphones from its very own factory in Germany. This commitment is echoed as a sustainability initiative, as each pair of Ultrasone headphones are made to last a lifetime. Here at Drop, we plan on making this partnership last just as long.