When it comes to the speakers inside your headphones, there’s a particular type of tech that dominates. Dynamic drivers are found in almost all headphones made today, because they're the most cost-effective to produce and work excellently.
There are other ways to fashion this key piece of tech, though, from balanced armature drivers – which you’ll find in headphones such as the 1MORE Quad Drivers – to planar magnetic drivers like those in the Audeze Euclid. But each design has its benefits and limitations. In the case of dynamic drivers – which are what’s inside all of the best headphones – their disadvantages are that they can be prone to distortion at high volumes and tend to be a bit larger than other driver types, owing to their cone- or dome-shaped diaphragm. Yet despite these drawbacks, they remain the most popular choice among manufacturers.
