You use them everyday.
But do you actually understand them?



Let me show you how WIRELESS HEADPHONES exactly work !

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Key Components

Exploded View
01 / Driver
~40mm Diaphragm
Moves air to control the shape of audio, which becomes sound waves.
02 / SoC
System on Chip
Handles wireless communication and audio processing.
03 / Coil
Amplifier
Boosts audio signal to create motion. Large amplified signal = louder sound.
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Music
as Numbers

The music on your phone isn't actual sound yet—it's a digital file made of millions of numbers.

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Wireless
Transmission

Using bluetooth, your phone turns that data of numbers into invisible radio signals or electromagnetic waves. Inside your headphone is another bluetooth chip with an antena that listens for those specific radio patterns and receives data.

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Signal
Decoding

The same chip converts and decompresses those radio signals back into digital audio.

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Physical
Vibration

The digital audio becomes an electrical signal that powers and moves the tiny speaker inside the headphone back and forth, pushing the air.

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Neural
Interpretation

The moving air creates sound waves that vibrate your eardrum, and your brain interprets those vibrations as music.

Wireless Headphones

Invisible systems
made seen.

From Data · To Sound