julie

Cheers Dusty Chalk- I'm exploring the insides of my old PX 200s just now. I have the book 'The science of sound' by TD Rossing, FR Moore and PA Wheeler which is good but fairly basic, 'Loudspeaker and headphone handbook' is much more detailed but to my enormous frustration after finding it was on google books (too expensive to buy) they had cut out the headphone pages!! Thanks for the advice.

Thank you once again Spiug31!

Spiug31 thank you, some really good links cheers I came across the AKG K1000 headphones on the first site-they are amazing! I think you might piss a few people off if you wore them on the bus but the design is just fantastic! I bought a pair of Muji Zumreeds from audiocubes.com and have a few pairs of sennheisers which I've been looking at for research so far. I'm going to call up distributors- I had presumed before they wouldn't give out that sort of info but its definitely worth a try. n_maher - I apologise if I came across as 'one of those' - I'm a regular contributer to a couple of design forums and I understand where you're coming from. On the engineer front I have been in contact with a local uni which has a world renown acoustics department and will be meeting a prof. there as soon as he has time. Postjack - I'm afraid I didn't get the MOT reference, sorry.

Hello everyone! I am a product designer from the uk and I'm designing a pair of headphones for my final project (at Uni). I'm aiming them at the female youth-late twenties market but I want them to sound good too. So far I've been trying to research design on headphones but am not finding an awful lot. Does anyone know about the insides much? lol is it a case of just the speaker being inside the headphone cup? I'm looking at 40mm Neodymium speakers but I can't find any other higher end alternatives. They seem decent but at only $USD0.20 I'd like to put something better in. The other aspect I'm looking at is sales. Could anyone point me in the right direction here? For example how many pairs or a particular model are sold each year through a particular retailer etc. Any help would be hugely appreciated! Julie