SOTTOReserve

Over-ear · closed back · 212 g

Hear the room
disappear.

WF-Nocturne 5 $399

Adaptive cancellation

Minus thirty-eight decibels of city.

Eight microphones sample the room 48,000 times a second and answer it with an inverse wave before it reaches the pad. On the 07:42 into Shinjuku, that is the difference between the train and the tape hiss underneath it.

Cancellation is re-profiled every 0.3 s - cabin, street, open office - with no mode button to hunt for. Take one cup off and playback holds at −20 dB.

On paper

Driver
40 mm

carbon-dome, edge-wound coil

Noise floor
−38 dB

ambient, measured at 1 kHz

Playback
32 h

cancellation on · 3 h from a 10-min charge

Weight
212 g

pads on, cable off

Vanta 65 · QD-OLED

A screen that knows when to be a wall.

Pixels that switch fully off, a matte plate that swallows lamplight, and a filmmaker profile locked to 24 fps. In a dark room the bezel goes first; then the wall; then it is just the picture, 65 inches across, floating.

See it in the line

SOTTO is an invented marque for a one-page design study - an original demo with no ties to any electronics company.