Unlike traditional headphones that rely on plastic membranes with glued-on voice coils—which add physical weight and cause sound-muddying vibration lag—RAAL 1995's True-Ribbon™ technology completely eliminates the plastic backing to use a single feather-light strip of corrugated pure aluminum foil that serves as both the electrical conductor and the acoustic diaphragm itself.

Because this diaphragm has virtually zero physical mass, it stores no kinetic energy, allowing it to start and stop near-instantaneously to resolve fine musical details with absolute clarity and zero mass-related coloration. Free of the grid-like magnet arrays that block sound waves in other designs, our open-perimeter magnets leave the acoustic pathway completely unobstructed, projecting a pure, phase-coherent sound directly to your ears.

The RAAL 1995 series of headphones uses two or three of these strips each tuned to handle different frequency ranges, giving the headphones their incredible detail and impact.

The result is an incredibly fast, transparent, and spacious listening experience that effortlessly strips away the traditional "headphone" barrier, making the equipment disappear and transporting you directly into the room with the music.