Academy — high-fidelity headphones. Sound, composed.

Sound, composed.

Headphones built like instruments — tuned, weighted and finished by hand. Forty millimetres of beryllium, wrapped in lambskin and quiet.

The First Edition
Spring 2026
Copenhagen · est. MMXXVI
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01 Design

Sculpted in silence.

One continuous gesture of aluminium, drawn from headband to ear. No visible screws, no seams — geometry resolved until it disappears.

Two hundred and fifty grams, balanced at the crown. Pressure, tuned to vanish. You forget them; the music doesn’t.

02 Materials

Few materials, deeply considered.

Nothing exotic for its own sake. Each surface is chosen for how it ages, how it rests against skin, and how little it asks of the eye.

  • Aluminium 6063Hand-anodized, satin
  • Aniline lambskinVegetable-tanned
  • Memory foamPressure-mapped
  • Acoustic meshWoven steel
crescendo

03 Acoustics

Tuned for devotion.

A 40 mm beryllium driver in a sealed acoustic chamber. Adaptive cancellation that erases rooms, not detail. Honest where it should be honest; warm where it should be human.

0mm Beryllium driver
0h Playtime
0dB Adaptive ANC
0g Balanced weight

04 Editions

01 / 03

Ivory Champagne Slate

Warm white, satin aluminium.
First light, held still.

€ 1,190

Reserve this edition

We are not in the business of louder. We build for the closed eyes, the first note, the room that quietly disappears.

Academy — Copenhagen

05 The First Edition

Begin listening.

Reservations are open for the First Edition — five hundred numbered pairs, delivered Spring 2026. Fully refundable, quietly confirmed.

№ 001 — 500 · Fully refundable