Who We Are

Good Sound, a Community Effort

ETA Audio is based in New York and California — a small team of audiophiles hand-crafting boutique sound. Ev leads acoustic engineering and the core design ideas, Tommy heads product design in CAD and leads development, and Tom handles procurement, networking, and customer service.

Why we started

We’re passionate about audio just like you, and we believe we can offer great-sounding products to the community.

In pursuit of the absolute

We’re enthusiasts chasing the absolute sound, with a loving community behind us striving to produce the best headphones on the market.

Accessible & tuned

We aim to make every model as price-accessible, community-informed, and quality-optimized as possible in its category — each one meticulously tuned.

For every listener

With many tastes in mind, we tune to suit the widest range of musical styles and peripheral equipment possible.

“Leave no stone unturned.”
“If it sounds right, it is right.”
“There are no bad ideas.”

Approachable by design

These are our principles on research and development. We pride ourselves on approachability and direct communication with our supporters, so feel free to reach out any time for a conversation about how we might help you get the most bang for your buck from your headphone setup.

Standing by our quality

As a company, we stand by the quality of the products we ship. Each headphone is handcrafted and tuned by our acoustic engineer, Ev Schaaf, with meticulous care and attention to detail.

Every headphone undergoes rigorous quality standards: drivers are carefully channel-matched, and the sonics of the final product are confirmed by both measurement and actual listening before shipping to the customer.

We’re a small team of audiophiles hoping to bring cutting-edge innovation and disruptive technology to the market. We hope you get the chance to try our stuff soon.

The ETA Audio team at Pacific Audio Fest