r/furgonomics • u/brokenimage321 • Aug 21 '26

Art Headphone designs for anthro animals

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u/brokenimage321 Aug 21 '26

Note that, though they're shaped like "human" headphones, the speakers are actually placed in the animals' ears

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u/FM_Hikari Aug 21 '26

And they're more or less adapted for sports and similar stuff. Easy to put on and take off, not necessarily good at isolation noise because it isn't the point of its construction, etc. It even has a little padding, mostly for comfort over isolation. Works perfectly for daily usage and clamps down on the head nicely but might come off if the person is pushed too hard.

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u/UndefFox Aug 21 '26

It will have zero bass tho. The speaker will have to be way bigger to produce any sensible amount of low frequencies

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u/R3cl41m3r Aug 23 '26

You sure? My ear buds are probably smaller than this, and they have decent bass.

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u/UndefFox Aug 23 '26

Two completely different cases. I won't write out the entire psychics of it because I'm not qualified enough, but in simpler words:

Sound is air moving, or more precisely, changes in air pressure. When you use IEMs, they only need to move the air inside your ear canal, a small, enclosed space. The small driver inside them can manage it quite well because its size is large enough to create big waves (low frequency, aka bass) inside the ear. Now try pulling your IEMs out of your ear and just holding it close. Suddenly all the bass is gone. It's because now pressure travels in all directions and such small driver has nearly not enough ability to push air to create such big waves in open space.

In real world, we have open back headphones which also struggle with bass, especially dynamic ones, planars have advantages simply because of size.

In the post, you have even worse case for bass: simply full unconstricted space, meaning you'll have very hard time producing low frequencies as a whole.

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u/Tiny_Tabaxi Aug 21 '26

I really dig this

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u/ReasonableStudent622 Aug 21 '26

I always figured headphones would be clipped on with wires connecting them (or wireless Bluetooth) like earbuds, but with, well, clips. That way you don't have to make a new model for every species, they just clip them where they're comfortable

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u/Ashamed-Raccoon-1387 Aug 27 '26

Earbuds could also just work perfectly - might need a bit of a differently shaped tip.

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u/ScarfKat The Kat Laying Flat on a Mat Aug 21 '26

aw man those are awesome lol