Dan Clark Audio
STEALTH
Introduced 2021$4,500 MSRP
Stealth is Dan Clark Audio's flagship closed-back planar magnetic headphone, hand-built in San Diego, California, and notable for pairing sealed-back isolation with a wide, open-sounding soundstage via the company's patent-pending Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System. It launched in September 2021 after roughly four years of development and paired a new 4th-generation V-Planar driver with a self-adjusting nickel-titanium headband.
MSRP
$4,500
Used market · Excellent
$2,550
-43% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $4,500 at launch to $2,550 today.
Specifications
- THD
- < 0.03% 20 Hz - 20 kHz, ref. 1 kHz at 94 dB
- Build
- Carbon fiber baffle, aluminum/carbon bonded earcup construction, nickel-titanium self-adjusting headband, synthetic suede and protein-leather earpads
- Cable
- 79 in (2 m) detachable fabric-covered VIVO cable, dual Hirose 4-pin push-pull connectors at earcups, 1/4 in (6.35 mm) plug standard; optional 3.5 mm, 2.5 mm, 4.4 mm balanced, and 4-pin XLR terminations available
- Weight
- 415 g (14.6 oz)
- Warranty
- 2 years
- Impedance
- 23 ohms
- Distortion
- < 0.1% ref 80dB White Noise
- In the box
- Headphones, VIVO cable, zippered hard-shell carrying case, microfiber cleaning cloth
- Driver size
- 76 mm x 51 mm (per official site and Crutchfield); reviews at launch cited 62mm x 34mm or 72mm x 50mm for earlier production runs
- Driver type
- 4th-generation single-ended planar magnetic driver with V-Planar Technology and Acoustic Metamaterial Tuning System (AMTS)
- Sensitivity
- ~86-90 dB/mW (sources vary: 86 dB/mW per Enjoy the Music, 87 dB per Crutchfield, ~90 dB per official site)
- Frequency response
- Yes, it has one
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