E3
headphones
$2,300
Used market: $1,795*
Specifications
3 of 4 values have a recorded sourceExpert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal Profile
Fifth-generation planar behind the AMTS waveguide. 27 ohms with a flat impedance curve: whatever your source's output impedance, it costs level and not balance - which is exactly the property that makes an AMTS tuning survive a change of amplifier.
What the datasheet actually says
Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.
«Impedance | 27ohms | Sensitivity | ~90 dB/mW | Frequency response | Yes, it has one»
The tilde is Dan Clark Audio's own: the sensitivity is published as an approximation, with no measurement point, coupler or tolerance given, and the frequency-response row of the same table carries a joke instead of a number. The identical '~90 dB/mW' appears on E3, EXPANSE and STEALTH, three headphones the same pages describe as having different drivers, different backs and impedances of 27, 26 and 23 ohms.
checked 8/5/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~78% retained value). · checked on 8/5/2026