Batch one
A 50 mm open-back reference headphone, measured pair by pair in Chennai.
MRP ₹23,400 · insured shipping across India
Why the R1 exists
Fourteen months in Indian studios with a measurement rig.
Six to nine decibels of lift, because it sells.
Sorted by tolerance band, not matched.
None of it can be fully turned off.
So we built the opposite: one passive driver, one cable, one measured curve.
What you are buying
Every R1 ships with its own printed response.
Held within 0.6 dB across the band.
No boxy resonance around 200 Hz.
No battery, no firmware, no codec.
Pads, straps, yokes, cable, driver.
324 g and 3.4 N of clamp.
R1, in detail
Deliberately simple: a milled cup, a paper diaphragm, a cable on a socket.
Worst deviation on this pair: +2.6 dB at 3.1 kHz. Channel match: 0.45 dB. The sweep is printed at this size and folded into the lid of your case.
How a pre-order works
No money changes hands on this page.
In the case
Honestly compared
If you fly twice a month and want silence, buy the ANC pair.
Who is building it
Meera ran the measurement bench at a contract manufacturer.
The R1 is her fourth prototype and the first she would sign.
Studio testers
Where it was measured
Batch one
Batch one dispatches on 6 February.
Batch-one pricing ends 19 November.
Only 143 of 400 serials are still unclaimed — serials claimed so far.
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Before you reserve
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