Madoo TYP512 In-Ear Headphones

Stunningly Powerful Low Frequencies

Madoo, the sub brand of Acoustune, released TYP512, the new earphones that use a carefully selected 'Belix' UHD dynamic driver. This diaphragm possesses three crucial elements for sound quality: lightweight, high rigidity, and timbre, newly designed and developed by the manufacturer. The Belix diaphragm is a composite diaphragm with its top made of magnesium-lithium alloy film molded onto beryllium metal deposited edges. The magnesium-lithium alloy used in Typ512 is a material with excellent specific strength and specific rigidity. Besides not causing resonance on the diaphragm, it uses the lightest practical metal with a specific gravity of 1.5g/cm3, ensuring both sound transparency and extremely low distortion while maintaining lightness. For the edge parts, beryllium, the fourth lightest metal in atomic number, is vapor-deposited on a resin used as a medical substrate, achieving flexibility and rigidity while preventing unnecessary reverberation.

In the first product Typ711, balanced armature drivers were combined with planar drivers to achieve an appropriate balance of wetness and clarity. The aim was to balance the sound resonance of powerful bass with unencumbered sound. While "Typ711" is balanced tuning, "Typ512" emphasizes bass. Fast sound, deep bass drums, and clear bass provide rhythmic sound without sluggishness, with deep bass and groovy synthesizer sounds giving you a live club feeling. It achieves refreshing bass.

In principle, Micro Square Planar Magnetic is a driver using planar dynamic technology. Inside a high-rigidity metal case made of thin plates, a diaphragm made of a composite material combining membrane-like lightweight metal alloy and super engineering plastics has high rigidity. When the coil directly drives the diaphragm, it produces a powerful, dynamic timbre, and using a composite material diaphragm with high rigidity produces a unique timbre, generating tight and clear sound.

"MIAA" housing architecture and highly controllable schematic design 

To improve reliability and maximize performance, the original housing architecture "MIAA: MADOO In-ear Acoustic Architecture" from "Typ711" is adopted. All products are developed based on this architecture. We call the part that houses the drivers a sound box. This sound box is manufactured using 3D printing technology and has a complex acoustic circuit called schematic design. Many multi-driver earphones on the market use vinyl sound tubes. However, vinyl tubes have various problems, such as material softness causing significant sound loss when bent due to compression, and inability to reproduce characteristics even with optimal design due to production instability. In other words, these earphones have individual differences, and users are subject to the fate of the instrument. As a means to solve these problems, we developed a housing architecture "MIAA". Each driver is strictly and precisely positioned and guided by acoustically engineered sound tubes. Through schematic design, the sound tubes are acoustically optimized in terms of aperture, length, filtering function, aperture function, etc. This allows for excellent sound delivery. In this "Typ512", a unique acoustic tube design is being made, with a new unequal diameter tube and a composite spline tube. This makes it possible to create complex acoustic designs that are impossible with molds or vinyl tubes. Additionally, 3D printed parts and newly adopted precision resin have been improved this time. To maximize the use of this resin, the pre-curing and post-curing hardening processes during manufacturing were revisited, allowing for the production of very precise parts controlled at the 5 μm level. As a result, quality is strictly controlled and individual differences in the manufacturing process are suppressed, allowing users to enjoy the sound quality expected from the design.

Sapphire crystal combines aesthetics and functionality

MADOO's design concept is based on the image of submarine and clock windows. This is because the concept is to create earphones that can be used for many years. Therefore, we searched for suitable window materials and stumbled upon sapphire crystal. Sapphire crystal has a Mohs hardness of 9 and excellent scratch resistance and heat resistance. For the concept of earphones that can be used for many years, we thought that heat resistance and corrosion resistance that cannot be achieved with glass or plastic materials would be the best material. Functionally, this structure controls the back pressure of the driver through air gap control, to the performance of the driver. Sapphire crystal is more transparent than glass or plastic and looks beautiful, making it a material for high-end watches.

High-rigidity housing

Housing rigidity is necessary to maximize the potential of the driver units. The housing is designed by engineers familiar with metal processing who have designed cutting tools for high-end watches in Switzerland and Japan, as well as German cars. The housing is made by cutting from an aluminum block through high-precision CNC machining. MADOO has a design philosophy that housing rigidity affects sound quality. For this, there is no compromise in sound quality, such as sandblasting the housing surface to increase hardness, and the housing thickness is also designed to be sufficient for general earphones.

Acoustune custom cable

The earphone cable uses a 4-core silver-plated copper wire from the sister brand Acoustune. The cable that reduces sound quality loss guarantees the performance of the earphones. The connector uses a new type of IEM connector "Pentaconn Ear" designed and manufactured by Dics Co., Ltd. in Japan, which has high sound quality and high reliability. Compared to conventional MMCX connectors, the plug part and socket part have tighter contact and excellent conductivity. It achieves ease of connection and disconnection as well as robustness.

This product comes standard with two cables, "MRC011" with a 3.5mm 3-pole L-type gold-plated plug, and "MRC023" with a 4.4mm 5-pole L-type gold-plated plug.