Headphones

Headphones (sometimes referred to as "cans") come in a wide variety of comfortable to wear styles and specifications based on industry and use. Markertek stocks wired headphones and wireless headphones, earbuds and headphone accessories for DJ, recording, sound isolation/noise reduction, music listening and general monitoring.

Choose from open-back or closed-back, circumaural, supra-aural varieties and sound profiles that best suit your application. Markertek is proud to carry full size headphones from leading manufacturers like AKG, Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, Sony & Beyerdynamic. With our large inventory, you can be certain to find the exact headphones and earbuds you're looking for.

How do headphones work? All headphones act as transducers that convert audio signals (electrical energy) into sound waves (mechanical wave energy). The headphone driver reacts to the audio via electromagnetic, electrostatic or piezoelectric principles and causes a diaphragm to move, which produces the sound we hear.

The most important part of your headphones is the speakers, and each speaker is made of three main components. They are the voice coil, the permanent magnet, and the diaphragm. The voice coil is a thin circle of copper wire. This wire is suspended in the middle of a permanent magnet, which maintains a constant magnetic field. This field helps the voice coil vibrate. Connected to the voice coil is a thin membrane called the diaphragm. This diaphragm, also known as the speaker cone, is the part responsible for displacing air.