When you think of Poland, what comes to mind?
Frederick Chopin
This seemingly non-existent central European country has actually produced many celebrities, including Copernicus, the astronomer who founded heliocentric theory, and Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, who was born in Poland. If you're a fan, Robert Lewandowski, one of the best strikers in the world, is also from Poland. Of course, for hifi enthusiasts, Chopin, one of the most popular and influential pianists in history, and joseph Hoffmann, the famous pianist, these two Poles, you will not be unfamiliar.
The Polish we are talking about today, although the influence can not be compared with the above, but in the field of hifi, the brand he founded, has gradually attracted more and more attention - Emil Stolecki, a Polish musician, bassist and acoustic engineer.
During the day, Emil designs acoustic engineering projects for theatres, concert halls, cinemas and more. In the evenings, Emil would perform in bands or record albums. Because of the needs of the work, Emil developed a strong interest in monitor headphones, and by chance, he met an auditory correction physician with experience in customizing eardrums, so the two hit it off and founded the hifi headphone brand Lime Ears in 2012, and Lime (Chinese translated as lime), which is Emil's backward spelling.
Lime Ears quickly gained the trust of many bands, musicians and burners in Poland and Europe, such as Sweden's outstanding extreme metal band "Katatonia", one of Poland's most influential and well-known bands "Wolf Spider", as well as Decapitated, Dawid Podsiadlo, The Pineapple Thief, BOKKA and so on, are loyal users of Lime Ears.
As a brand that has not been established for a long time, Lime Ears can achieve good results in a short period of time, and at the product level, it has an important connection with a number of patented technologies exclusively developed by Lime Ears. Today, we will take a detailed and comprehensive look at the three technologies of BAM, Bass Switch and VariBore under the Lime Ears brand.
BAM is a technology inspired by the bass reflex shell of studio monitors, which are familiar to designers with traditional inverted speakers.
Lime Ears adds a damping structure made of memory foam to the rear of the unit to achieve more precise control of the dynamic unit. The dynamic woofer's damping of carefully selected open-cell memory foam material helps reduce sound resonance inside the enclosure, which in turn improves stereo separation and helps strengthen the depth and width of the soundstage.
BAM technology increases the control of low frequencies by using the energy behind the unit's diaphragm. The built-in open memory foam also further acts as a control unit to reduce the amplitude. Thanks to BAM technology, Lime Ears' flagship earbud Pneuma has no openings in the shell and no bass opening, and is a fully enclosed cavity, giving a more integrated and excellent texture, which is extremely rare in mixing unit earbuds.
Many of the ring iron hybrid unit earplugs on the market have a common problem, that is, the sense of volume in the low and medium frequency bands is insufficient, and the moving iron earplugs are often handled better. In response to this problem, LIME EARS has done a lot of targeted research, through the Bass Switch - adjustable low frequency switching technology, the advantages of the two technologies of the moving coil and the moving iron, the perfect combination!
In the case of Pneuma, the Lime Ears flagship earbud, for example, the low-frequency control switch only affects the ultra-low frequency band, which is the part of the dynamic coil unit. When the switch is turned on, the ultra-low frequencies are significantly enhanced, and the sound will sound warmer and more powerful. The vocals are prominent, the position is closer, the sense of mellowness and charm is increased, and the sense of atmosphere and momentum is enhanced. After the switch is turned off, it sounds more like a full-moving iron, the whole becomes light, the low frequency is moderate, the sense of space is relaxed, and the sense of dynamics is slightly more.
This is why LIME EARS' low-frequency adjustment is loved by many burners, except for ultra-low frequency, which does not change any other frequency bands. If you want to listen to popular words, open it; want to listen to jazz? Just close it.
What is VariBore, the intuitive solution, you can see two small and large sound holes of different diameters at the end of the catheter.
Don't look at these three inconspicuous holes, which are very learned. The core of VariBore technology requires rich experience and a lot of time for experimental debugging, according to the needs of different frequency bands and units such as high, medium and low frequencies, different diameter size sound holes are set at the tail of the catheter, and the original intention of this setting can achieve the effect of reducing resonance and enhancing bass.
Perhaps based on the blessing of many patented technologies, LIME EARS once won the annual CIEM Award in the world-famous hifi media headfonia.
LIME EARS products
LIME EARS flagship pneuma
pneuma specifications:
1 titanium alloy dynamic unit
4 moving iron units
Four-way hybrid crossover
Built-in switchable bass Bass Switc
VariBore™
Bam™
Aether R：
6-speed rail unit / 4-way divider / VariBore™ / TrueSub™ / Switchable low frequency level (8dB<800Hz)
Model X：
4-acting iron unit / VariBore™ / Switchable low frequency level (8dB<800Hz)
Y psi:
3 moving iron unit / 3 way crossover