The sparrow outside the window, spit on the pole, you say this, very summer feeling…

In 2005, the boy sneaked Jay Chou in the earphones into the girl’s ear at the same table and said to her, “The name of Qilixiang is beautiful.” That year was also the summer of OPPO MP3.

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OPPO’s first shell-shaped MP3 was launched in the same year, and then quickly swept the campus playground, the street under the banyan tree, and the quiet night of the dormitory. At that time, music was shaped.

▲ OPPO MP3 X3

Afterwards, OPPO turned it into MP3, became MP4, and turned into a Blu-ray machine… Then, just like the year of graduation, we don’t know what it will become in the future until 14 years later – OPPO first Wireless noise canceling headphones are coming.

But before that, let’s press the rewind button first. The wonderful place of the story begins in 2005.

OPPO’s 15-year music path

2005 was a very commemorative year for OPPO.

This year, OPPO’s first MP3 was released. In the era of online music spurts, young men and women took it, as if they had become the trend-setting fashion, and the MP3 X9 released in the same year was also hailed as ” The beginning of the domestic MP3.”

▲ OPPO MP3 X9

In 2005, OPPO released the first DVD product in the United States, and won the 2005 professional audio website Secret of Home Theater and High Filelity 2005 audio and video awards, which became a clear stream in the domestic music industry. This made OPPO determined to take the road of audio and video.

A3, V9, S9 and other series of MP4 explosions were launched one after another. We listened to the love songs with changing subtitles. Youth has a cover that can be placed. OPPO also launched the first Blu-ray product in 2008. The BDP-83, with VRS video processing technology, brings video performance to new heights.

▲ OPPO A3

However, the whole audio-visual enthusiast circle is familiar with it. It is also the audio-optimized version of the BDP-83SE launched by OPPO in the same year. It is like a newcomer who has just arrived, but it broke the market that was monopolized by European and American Blu-ray products. Then, OPPO began to keep on the road of improving audio, and slowly became a global reputation. It also became the audio and video of the domestic market.

To 2016, OPPO believes that they have truly made the UDP20X series, the pinnacle of the Blu-ray market.

At that time, UDP-203 and UDP-205 could almost achieve the highest audio experience in the industry. After the product was released, some reviewers said that they could not detect the distortion and noise of the machine because many parameters exceeded the professional test at that time. The lower limit of the device – its USB sound card support has reached a sampling rate of 768KHZ.

If you are vague about this concept, for example, a 3 minute song at that time has 900M+, and theoretically its analog audio frequency range will reach 20KHz -384 KHz, which is beyond the human ear’s hearing limit.

▲ OPPO UDP-203

Here, OPPO Blu-ray has been highly praised by many professional audio associations and media, and has won more than 100 international mainstream audio and video associations and video awards. At the time, the American computer professional magazine PC Mag gave an award to OPPO:

When people talk about Blu-ray machines, there are only two brands: OPPO and others.

In the meantime, OPPO is on a music phoneI also made a lot of attempts, including the first mobile phone A103, which started to be the main fashion music, the first generation mobile phone T5 of the OPPO Real music series, introducing the concept of “double lossless” into the field of music mobile phones…

▲ OPPO A103

OPPO began to intervene in the headset market. In the case that many disc players did not have a headphone jack, the BDP-105 added a headphone output interface. This attempt was unexpectedly recognized by a large number of users.

Additionally, although OPPO’s Blu-ray has reached a certain height, it is still far away from the average consumer. Therefore, OPPO decided to introduce the PM-1 flat diaphragm headset. In the case that the dynamic coils and moving iron headphones on the market have their own defects, OPPO chose the planar diaphragm technology that can be seen at the high-end electroacoustic products exhibition, and then cooperated with the HA1 headphone amplifier at that time to make this technology go. general user.

After OPPO launched a portable PM-3 headset, plugged in the phone, you can use it directly, with the professional-grade HA-2, you can turn the phone into a professional amp media library and player. These products have the genes of OPPO audio and video.

▲OPPO PM-3. Image from:trustedreviews

For 15 years, it can be seen that OPPO has been pursuing the ultimate state of audio on the road of audio-visual products. Now, it wants the experience and technology accumulated in these years to enter more people’s ears.

How did the first wireless noise canceling headphones come from?

For more ordinary consumers, there are actually fewer exposures to Blu-ray products, but from vinyl to tape, and then from the CD to the current online online listening to songs. The form of listening to songs is constantly changing, but it has remained the same:

We all want to hear better voices.

And for OPPO, when they are done on the Bluetooth machine, it is necessary to find the next breakthrough, plus the carrier of music is constantly changing, the technology is constantly updated, the wireless noise canceling headphones are in the current environment. The best carrier to support “good voice.”

So, OPPO Enco Q1 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones is coming.

As a wireless noise canceling headset, noise reduction is naturally the first priority.

In order to build a good technology platform, OPPO adopts the same technology as the flagship products of big brands such as BOSE and SONY, which also ensures that this headset can lay the foundation first.

This technology is also “4Mic FF+FB dual active noise reduction”, which is “four microphones, feedforward + feedback hybrid noise reduction”. Specifically, a feedforward microphone outside the headset collects external noise to cancel out in the headset; an internal feedback microphone collects ambient noise that is leaked into the headset.

Introduction to the industry is generally only one of them, OPPO wireless noise canceling headphones combine the two, just to achieve the strengths and weaknesses.

The next step is to create better performance for the headset .

To this end, OPPO has set up a professional R&D team and cooperated with the Noise and Vibration Laboratory of the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to debug and research acoustic algorithms. The core staff of the OPPO R&D team includes several Ph.D. students from the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and OPPO senior electroacoustic engineers with more than ten years of experience in Blu-ray.

On the noise reduction algorithm, the OPPO R&D team repeatedly tested the objective indicators of the human ear wearing noise reduction after using special technical means, and then arranged the personnel to compare the noise reduction situation in the actual environment of the mall, subway, aircraft and office. The person’s discomfort reacted and finally selected a set of parameters. The electroacoustic engineer adjusts the sound quality, sound effects and call parameters when noise reduction is turned on and off, respectively, based on the completion of noise reduction.

Because each person’s ear canal shape will be different, the experience of each person with active noise reduction may be slightly different, so OPPO performs simulation test with simulated human head in the whole anechoic room, which can reflect the product is real. Use the situation under the scene.

Where, the “main material” of the technology is completed, but you have to guarantee the sound of the “taste”.

So OPPO chose a double-layer composite diaphragm speaker to make the sound better at high frequency and low frequency. It adopts Bluetooth 5.0 transmission and AAC high-definition audio to make the audio transmission of wireless headphones smoother.

It also selected three virtual sound companies from a number of companies, and then through the internal Golden Ear team to test and contrast, and finally set a company from the world music capital Austria, let the headphones bring users The feeling of “portable personal theater”.

For the current generation, headphones are not only used to listen to songs, but also to watch videos and play games. Each piece requires a different music experience.

OPPO In order to balance more scenes, the sound quality has been repeatedly polished and debugged, and finally allows users to use 3 audio modes: headphones can restore music details when listening to songs; surround sound and bass effect can be enhanced when watching movies; When playing games, the sound field will expand and have a clear sense of positioning.

The senior tuner with 15 years of experience in the OPPO Blu-ray team has also participated in the project. Based on the Blu-ray level that OPPO has accumulated in the industry for many years, it is like the “guardian” of this headset, guaranteeing the final product. The sound quality is “taste”.

Where here, the core of the OPPO wireless noise canceling headphones is basically finalized, and finally the link to the finished product is reached.

OPPO is still ingenious in creating the user experience.

The most prominent aspect of this earphone is that its neck ring adopts a one-piece design. There is no extra gap in the middle of the earphone, and there is no splicing of different materials.

The reason for adopting this design is that OPPO found many users using neck hangingHeadphones are worn all day long, so comfort is especially important, and seams can affect the feel of the skin. Different materials can cause uneven heat or heat, or hit the skin while walking.

According to OPPO, the manufacturing process of this link is extremely difficult. At one time, engineers and suppliers wanted to give up.

In order to realize this design, OPPO has found a number of well-known earphone manufacturers and a number of senior mold factories, and they have not been able to get a manufacturing solution. Finally, after repeated research around the clock, a mold factory was finalized, using a complicated process. Implementation:

After three rounds of different injection molding of different materials (commonly known as straw beer), hand-grinding and spraying skin-friendly hand-painting.

In this detail of three sets of molds, OPPO has invested millions of dollars. Finally, this earphone is made of a soft skin-friendly material on the neck ring that fits the skin part. The skeleton uses a high-cost nickel-titanium memory alloy and has a three-dimensional curve that fits the neck. The overall design of the earphone conforms to the human body. Engineering, suitable for long-term wear.

And its whole weight is only 42g. When wearing this earphone, the intuitive feeling is that the face value can be played, and the neck work is not bad. Whether sitting in the office or walking along the road, the neck is light enough to make people forget to wear.

The headphone head is also ergonomically designed with SoftFit silicone to fit the space in most people’s ears. The number of ear caps is up to 4 pairs.

From the first MP3 to the latest OPPO wireless noise canceling headphones, OPPO has never changed in the pursuit of the ultimate “good voice”, but continues to make new breakthroughs based on the original technology.

But nowadays many things are changing rapidly, and OPPO can continue to maintain the same core, because they are always concerned about the voice of young people.

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We listen to OPPO, OPPO listen to our voice

This time, in order to launch the OPPO wireless noise canceling headphones, OPPO has conducted extensive user research in the industry.

They have summarized and compared user feedbacks and comments from Jingdong, Tmall, official website and forums, as well as online surveys of multiple users. From categories, usage scenarios, needs, etc., people understand that people really want one now. What kind of headphones.

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The survey found that 78% of users plan to buy headphones in the next six months, 51% of users plan to buy wireless headphones, a large number of target users want to buy a good headset, a good wireless headset.

In addition, people hope that this headset has a good immersive experience in watching videos, listening to music and playing games on mobile phones. Because of the pan-fun app related to headphones,A large user active amount APP is video playback software, followed by music, then game.

After all, now headphones are no longer just a pair of headphones, but have become a way of life.

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The most concentrated time period for people to use headphones is commuting and lunch breaks during commuting. In these subways, crowded streets, and quiet resting environments, noise reduction becomes visible. demand.

In terms of the use of functions, it also carries the “sound” demand of people in various daily scenes. It is said that we are far from being noisy, staying focused, creating immersion, and maintaining personal space. .

In addition, the headset as a wearable device has represented a personal identity in people’s ears. It is like a “personal declaration” that tells others that you are “new”, “simple”, “independent”. “…” In the luxury brand show and star street shooting, various wireless headphones have become commonplace.

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In 2018, data analysis company IDC discovered a new trend, as more and more phones canceled the headset hole Wireless Bluetooth headsets will gradually become a mainstream product.

The IDA 2017 release of the Global Wearables Tracking Report also mentions that earwear devices will be in the future With an annual growth rate of approximately 43% within 5 years, it has become one of the most popular wearable devices.

Combining technology, fashion and traditional headphones, and then closer to our daily lives, is an unstoppable trend.

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And OPPO has always been very sensitive to color and fashion, regardless ofStyle endorsements or the product itself, all bring a youthful and pioneering atmosphere. The earphones also added the color of the sun-orange orange on the basis of the night black and the star silver, and still captured the pulse of young people’s preferences.

In the past ten years, OPPO has been adhering to the “ingenuity” of product technology, and has laid a solid foundation for OPPO wireless noise canceling headphones. Selecting “wireless + noise reduction” is not only popular with current headphones. The trend is also the actual demand to meet the current user consumption upgrade.

plus the current threshold for noise reduction is not low. Most mainstream noise-reducing headphones are not easy for ordinary consumers to accept in terms of price and function, and it is difficult to popularize in the public circle.

OPPO chose a headset that meets the needs of the moment, a wireless noise canceling headset that sells for $599, so that most people can hear better sounds.

In general, it is a product centered on “user voice.”

From the first MP3 to today’s wireless noise canceling headphones, technological developments and environmental changes have allowed us to experience music products from generation to generation OPPO. These 15 years of change have also witnessed our growth.

This year’s OPPO wireless noise canceling headphones may be the youth of a new generation.