Circular ear cups pivot on two axes, so the seal holds whether you look down at a desk or up at a departures board.
Ceramic outer plate
40 mm beryllium driver
Adaptive noise cancelling, with an Ambient mode one press away
Spatial audio that tracks your head, at 120 updates per second
298 g of titanium, ceramic and memory foam
40 hours of playback with noise cancelling on
Introducing Vela One
A headphone for long, quiet hours. Studio-grade sound, a carved titanium frame and cushions you forget you are wearing.
Materials (1)
Every surface, considered.
The rim is turned from a single billet of grade 5 titanium, then hand-brushed to a 0.4 micron finish.
Ceramic that stays cool.
Zirconia outer plates resist scratches and stay cool to the touch after hours of wear.
A thread of copper.
A thin copper ring marks the seam where the shell meets the cushion. It is the only colour on the headphone.
Design (2)
Four parts. Nothing extra.
We took the over-ear headphone apart and kept only what earns its place. Each piece is shaped for one job, and they fit together without a single visible screw.
The headband is a single spring-steel arc wrapped in knit, spreading 298 g evenly across your head.
Titanium yokes slide 22 mm in fine detents and stay exactly where you set them.
Memory foam cushions attach with magnets. Swap them in two seconds when they wear.
Engineering (3)
Seven layers deep.
Scroll to take an ear cup apart. Every layer is serviceable, from the outer plate down to the driver.
- 01Ceramic plate
- 02Titanium rim
- 03Logic board
- 0440 mm driver
- 05Acoustic mesh
- 06Copper seal
- 07Cushion
Sound (4)
The room goes quiet.
Eight microphones listen to the world around you and cancel it before it reaches your ear. What is left is the music, with bass that stays tight at any volume and highs that never turn sharp. Tap Ambient and the room comes back, as clear as if you had taken them off.
Outside noise−32 dB
1
Quiet
Six outward microphones measure the noise around you and two inward ones check what reaches your ear, 48,000 times a second.
2
Ambient
Voices and announcements pass through naturally while engines and air conditioning stay softened.
01
A 40 mm driver, coated in beryllium.
A stiffer diaphragm moves as one piece, so distortion stays below 0.05% even at full volume.
02
Tuned flat, then nudged.
A near-neutral curve from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, with a gentle lift in the low end so a long session never feels thin.
03
Light enough to forget.
At 298 g with a clamping force of 4.2 N, Vela One sits lighter than most of the headphones it replaces.
Case
A case that keeps the charge.
Zip Vela One into its felt case and it drops into a deep sleep that holds charge for months.
Battery
A week of commutes on one charge.
Forty hours with noise cancelling on. Five minutes over USB-C gives you four more.
Pairing
Open the case. Tap once.
Vela One appears on your phone the moment it is near, and moves between your laptop and tablet as you do.
Tech specs
- Size
- 186 × 162 × 84 mm
- Weight
- 298 g
- Case weight
- 112 g
- Battery
- Up to 40 hours, ANC on
- Driver
- 40 mm beryllium-coated dynamic
- Frequency range
- 20 Hz – 20 kHz (wired: 5 Hz – 40 kHz)
- Microphones
- 8 total, 6 outward and 2 inward
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth 5.4, LE Audio, USB-C lossless
- Controls
- Rotary crown, mode button
- In the box
- Vela One, felt case, USB-C cable
The Vela family
Made to go together.
Hear more of what matters.
Less of everything else.
Pre-orders ship from 14 November 2026.