At least we hit our Day 4 coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show 2012! Time to turn back time and hit the floor again.
Yoga Electronics is a full-range audio production company based out of China that has made quality karaoke and PC microphones, drum and instrument mic kits, and various pieces of equipment for studios. By 2004, Yoga Electronics had fully developed their headphone clean-rooms and production lines and began to market their headsets in Hong Kong and China. Based on the business principle of "adjustability and persistence", their goal has to been produce a wide array of audio headsets ranging in quality from PC tower speakers to studio quality ear monitors.
There was a wide range of products on display at their booth for CES 2012, but unfortunately all of them were behind Plexiglas windows and boxes and thus reporters couldn't actually pick them up for a test-drive. Their main display was the CD-990 Hi-Fi stereo headphones. These headphones utilize a 42 mm neodymium driver to produce a respectable 98dB/mW over a 10Hz to 26kHz frequency range. As with all of the higher-end headphones offered by Yoga, the cables connecting these headphones to the audio source are removable as shown in the picture above. The CD-990's are not actually wireless as the picture seems to imply.
Right next to the CD-990 display were the CD-880 headphones. There did not seem to be any hardware difference between these two products, at least according to the display card next to them, as they seem to share all the same basic stats. However, the CD-880s were rated as capable of producing 100dB/mW of sound energy. The main difference between these two headphones seemed to be styling, which in fact makes up a large portion of the differing products that Yoga offers. Similar to SkullCandy, they have focused most of their creative energy into physical appearance and stylistic considerations.
Yoga Electronics were also featuring a new product line that they just started this past design season. The CD-2100 shown on the left and the CD-1100 on the right are both fully collapsible headphones that come in both black and white colors. The CD-2100 headphones utilize a 50mm diameter neodymium driver in both ear-muffs that is rated at producing 100dB of sound energy measured at 1kHz. Meanwhile, the CD-1100 headphones use a smaller neodymium driver that measures 40 mm in diameter yet still manages to put out 100dB at 1kHz.
For the hard-core communications people out there, Yoga also produces a line of single-muff headsets with a powerful microphone located at the end of a flexible boom. This headset has a long coiled cable that connects to your audio source and there are both 1/4" and 1/8's standard audio jacks at the other end to fit a wide variety of systems. This headset features a medium sized driver measuring 50 mm in diameter that is capable of producing 96dB / mW. The dynamic microphone is rated at -80dB sensitivity and will provide a frequency response from 100Hz to 12kHz.
There was also an entire wall of their booth devoted to showcasing the wide range of microphones and recording equipment that Yoga Electronics also produces, though sadly they did not have any product literature for these devices or little signs next to each one identifying what they were and their capabilities.
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