Tiptoe With The Ti
Ti (Titanium) is our “just plain fun” IEM. In your face. Kick in the pants. Boogie down or bang the head. Ti does it all. This isn’t your 3 piece jazz ensemble IEM. This is a full-on, blast your face rock concert. It’s a thunderous EDM club. It’s reggae all day long.
Titanium is widely used in aerospace and high-performance applications because of its unique mix of extreme strength and stability with moderate weight, giving it one of the best stiffness-to-weight ratio of all structural metals.
What’s New With the Ti?
We’ve done a few great changes to Ti – and the whole line – to improve performance and user experience. This starts with a new material for the entire enclosure. We worked for 3 years with Eastman Chemicals, one of the largest plastics companies in the world, to research, develop, and quantify new polymers for acoustic applications.
Our research led us to a specific blend of their Tritan™ copolymer. This material proved to be not just rigid, but acoustically dead with lower energy storage and transmission than the polycarbonate we were using. Stray resonance and noise is lowered even more.
We also refined the external and internal geometry to make it more anti-resonant, so clarity is increased alongside the improvements of the materials used. The result is the most stable, lowest resonant IEM enclosure ever made. All with the lowest weight enclosure possible.
I See a Detachable Cable? What’s That About?
We have also developed our own 2.5mm jack: the IDEEL connector. This connector is the world’s smallest 2.5mm jack, measuring just 3.6mm across, and a tiny 9.5mm mounting depth. This jack allows us to use the very robust 2.5mm TS plug in our tiny IEMs. No more delicate MMCX or difficult 2 pin plastic connectors needed.
Mechanical Elements
Transducer Diaphragm: Pure Titanium foil
Transducer Surround: PEEK polymer
Transducer Frame: 316 Stainless Steel
Transducer Magnet: N48H Grade Neodymium
Enclosure Body: Tritan™ copolyester
Protective Grille: 316 Stainless Steel
Bonding Compound: Cyanoacrylate Adhesive
Sealant Compound: Polyvinyl Acetate
Mounting Tips: Medical Grade Silicone and Urethanes
Connector: IDEEL 2.5mm TS compatible connector (tip hot, sleeve ground)
All components are Finite Element Analyzed for stress, strain, and durability.
