Dan Clark Audio E3 – Experience Your Music Like Never Before

Revolutionary closed-back planar headphone with AMTS and 5th-generation driver.

E3 is Dan Clark Audio’s breakthrough closed-back headphone. The sleek black-and-blue aesthetic, ergonomic design, and Gorilla Glass 3 shells hint at the innovation inside. E3 combines advanced tuning and engineering to deliver the legendary open-back experience in a closed form—precise yet exciting.

Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System (AMTS)

AMTS—previously found only in flagship models like Stealth, Expanse, and Corina—now reaches a broader audience through E3. Integrating waveguides, diffusion control, and resonators, AMTS eliminates high-frequency standing waves for smooth, natural treble. Its new implementation enhances tonal realism and consistent bass performance.

5th-Generation Planar Driver

The new planar magnetic driver delivers rich detail, low distortion, and exceptional tonal balance. Refined diaphragm materials and improved V-Planar processing yield a smooth, uniform frequency response—approaching the resolution of high-end electrostatics but with DCA’s effortless musicality.

Dual-Mode Bass Port

The visible openings in the glass are part of the Dual-Mode Bass Port, DCA’s new bass-control innovation. It provides powerful yet tight low-end response—no bloom, no bleed into mids—balancing punch and precision perfectly.

Sound & Stage

E3 offers an extra-wide, immersive soundstage, exceptional dynamics, and a natural timbre rivaling open-backs. Bass is articulate, mids are silky, highs are smooth and refined—never fatiguing, always engaging.

Comfort & Ergonomics

The self-adjusting NiTinol headband and folding joints make E3 portable and supremely comfortable, inheriting the acclaimed suspension system from Stealth and Expanse.

Gorilla Glass 3 Design

Gorilla Glass 3 enhances strength and beauty, with a textured pattern evoking open-back mesh—a visual cue to the open, spacious listening experience E3 provides.