'Visceral sound': These headphones promise better bass by transmitting it through your skin, not your ears — we tried the first generation of the tech, and it's astoundingly good, so we're excited by this upgraded version
- "Wooferpads" transmit pulses through your skin
- Coming to the US in November 2026
- $249 (about £187 / AU$357)
As much as I love hearing music on some of the best headphones, there's something missing from every mix: the physical sensation you get from a set of speakers pushing lots of air. Sonic Lamb has a solution. Its latest headphones model features unique drivers to deliver sound that you can actually feel.
The new Beyond headphones look like any other premium pair, but in addition to their dynamic drivers, they have what Sonic Lamb calls an Impulse Driver in each ear. That driver transmits low-frequency vibration as low as 2Hz through the headphones' "wooferpads" so that you can feel the vibration through your skin.
The vibrations are synchronized with the audio to follow not just their timing but the dynamics of the song. It sounds gimmicky, I know, but...
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