Audio
Tuning is done by listening. A driver that measures well and sounds wrong does not ship. The range is deliberately narrow so each product can be judged against the same reference.
Hardware · HW·02
Audio
Earbuds, headphones and compact speakers, tuned against reference material rather than a spec sheet.
True wireless earbuds, over ear headphones and compact speakers. Tuning is checked against reference material rather than a spec sheet, and fit and case behaviour carry as much weight as driver size, because a set of earbuds that sits badly never gets worn.
- Entry
- HW·02
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- True wireless earbuds · Over ear headphones · Compact speakers
- Judged on
- Tuning against reference material
- Weighted equally
- Fit and case behaviour
How it is run
Tuning is done by listening. A driver that measures well and sounds wrong does not ship. The range is deliberately narrow so each product can be judged against the same reference.
- Brief — Driver size, fit and intended listening distance are set first.
- Tuning — Each unit is auditioned against the same reference material before sign-off.
- Quality control — Channel matching and seal are checked per batch.
HW·02 · Audio
Drawing sheet · not to scale
Concept · runs with HOB AI
Isolation decided on the bud.
Every line is drawn around the same assistant. It is asked for out loud, it resolves what it can on the device in front of you, and it answers with the thing rather than a conversation about the thing.
HOB AI · on device
- Ask
- Speak to the buds
- Understand
- Voice separated from the noise floor
- Act
- Level and isolation follow the room
- Ask — Speak to the buds. No app to open and no tap sequence to memorise.
- Understand — Voice is separated from the noise floor on the bud itself, not in an account.
- Act — Isolation and level follow the room — a street, a train, one person talking across a table.
A concept drawing, not a shipping specification. The assistant is HOB AI and the device it was written for is HB·001.
Line manual
How HW·02 is specified, ordered and checked.
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HW·02
Rendered, not photographed. No unit of this line has been manufactured under the mark, so nothing here is a picture of a finished product.
Finish palette · drawn intent, not a supplier sample
Obsidian anodise#0B0B0C
Graphite anodise#17181A
Graphite light#202225
Brass#B98A3E
Brass lit#D7A954
Ivory#F4F3EF
Brief
Driver size, fit and intended listening distance are set first.
- Driver size
- Set before a supplier is approached
- Fit
- Weighted as heavily as driver size
- Listening distance
- Intended use fixed first
Tuning
Each unit is auditioned against the same reference material before sign-off.
- Reference
- The same material every time
- Audition
- Every unit before sign-off
- Sign-off
- Held until the tuning agrees
Quality control
Channel matching and seal are checked per batch.
- Channel matching
- Checked per batch
- Seal
- Checked per batch
- Case behaviour
- Carried into the batch check
Line open
- Entry
- HW·02
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- True wireless earbuds · Over ear headphones · Compact speakers
- Judged on
- Tuning against reference material
- Weighted equally
- Fit and case behaviour
Everything above describes how the line is run. It does not describe a product you can hold.
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