Turn hearing into your competitive edge.
Do you ever find it hard to pinpoint the direction of sounds—misjudging where enemies appear or losing track of opponents behind cover?
Have you ever missed crucial audio cues—like enemy footsteps or reloads—because they were masked by your own gunfire or your teammates’ voice chat?
Exceptional imaging.
Even overlapping sounds stay clear.
DETECT features an acoustic design optimized for the 3D audio engines used in FPS games,
making it easy to pinpoint the direction and distance of footsteps and gunfire.
With an optimized frequency response and high resolution, critical cues stay clear—even when sounds overlap.
FPS-Optimized Sound Signature
Many earphones prioritize musical enjoyment and impact, so loud gunfire and explosions often mask the cues that matter.
DETECT is purpose-built for competitive play: its high-resolution BA drivers and FPS-optimized tuning keep critical sounds clear instead of getting buried.
AIMTune Module
Many FPS audio engines apply HRTF processing to make directional cues easier for the human ear to localize.
Conveying those cues to your eardrum as an accurate, appropriate signal is critical.
The AIMTune module preserves the original detail while delivering HRTF-optimized reproduction.
Wear It Your Way
DETECT’s ultra-compact design supports both over-ear and straight-down wearing styles.
The short overall length body fits comfortably under a headset.
Premium Components, Japanese Manufacturing Quality
We actively adopt components with decades of proven reliability—including parts used in hearing aids and other audiophile-grade materials.
Design, mold making, injection molding, assembly, and testing are all performed in Japan by factories with 60+ years of expertise.
The Story Behind the Product / Our Brand Story
HID-Labs is a full-service brand founded in 2018 that handles customization, import, and manufacturing of gaming gear. We’ve fulfilled thousands of custom orders to date, serving everyone from everyday players to professionals competing on the world stage.
Every member of our team is an FPS player. From 2020 to 2022, working in the 5v5 competitive scene reaffirmed for us that sound is a decisive factor in winning or losing.
Yet at the time, truly FPS-optimized earphones were rare—and the few that existed were hard to obtain.
The fact that many users relied on music-first products made it clear how little gamer-centric design there was in the market.
So we decided to build it ourselves and launched the development project.
Over the next several years, we obsessed over every detail—from materials, design, and geometry to injection-mold tooling, domestic assembly in Japan, and rigorous inspection.
— DETECT, the earphone honed to deliver only the sounds that matter in FPS, was born.
Product Insights
Frequency Response
A deep-insert design—difficult to achieve with typical headsets or over-ear earphones—minimizes sound changes caused by individual ear-canal differences, delivering accurate frequency response and precise localization for any wearer.
Because the frequency response is tuned to deliver the HRTF: processing that makes the direction of a sound source easier for your brain to recognize. localization cues used in FPS games to the ear, it is fundamentally different from music-oriented earphones.
In addition, by moderating low-frequency energy, it reduces Auditory masking: When a louder sound makes a quieter one hard to hear—especially if they overlap in time or frequency..
As a result, match-deciding details—enemy footsteps, reloads, and more—stand out clearly even beneath gunfire and explosions.
Transient response
High-precision Knowles balanced-armature drivers.
An ultra-small diaphragm delivers exceptional transient response—lightning-fast attack and clean decay—so gunshots and footsteps have razor-sharp edges and clear on/off timing, letting you localize sources more precisely.
The tuning eschews the “reverb” and “coloration” common to music-first earphones, reproducing HRTF-processed game audio as intended. No extra effects—just the decisive edges that win.
Comfort & Passive Noise Isolation
PC setups are surrounded by constant fan noise, HVAC hum, everyday sounds, and outdoor noise that distract from gameplay.
This product uses Westone Audio STAR™ Silicone eartips to provide up to approx. 12 dB of passive isolation, while effectively reducing the high-frequency noise that ANC methods often fail to remove.
Where multi-flange or foam tips can deliver high isolation at the cost of pressure and heat buildup, these tips strike an optimal balance of long-wear comfort and noise blocking.
Ultra-Compact Design
An ultra-compact body offers two key advantages.
First, by avoiding an over-ear–only form factor and using a narrow-bore nozzle, it enables deep insertion for more consistent, accurate reproduction.
Second, the slim, short, low-profile shell also accommodates over-ear wear and won’t interfere even when you layer a headset on top.
This wear-agnostic design lets every user personalize the optimal position.
Premium Cable
Linum® Music cable pairs an ultra-thin, ultra-flexible construction with high tensile strength for an “almost wireless” wearing feel.
Unlike typical music earphones, this model doesn’t offer “recabling” because it ships with a top-tier cable from the start—there’s nothing to upgrade.
Although hardwired (non-detachable), our testing shows that, when handled properly, it withstands at least two years of use without cable failure.
High-Impedance design
Even if the output from a PC or audio interface carries white noise (hiss), the high-impedance design keeps it to a minimum.
This greatly lowers the noise floor at your ears, avoiding issues common with high-sensitivity earphones and keeping the sound clear even on provided gear at internet cafés or tournament venues.
Selected Component Brands
Specifications
- Driver
- Knowles BA Driver 1Unit
- Cable
- estron Linum® Music
- Eartips
- Westone Audio STAR™ Silicone
- Impedance
- 101Ω (1kHz)
- Sensitivity
- 110.5dB (1mW / 1kHz)
- Maximum Output Level (dB SPL)
- 122dB (SPL)
- Wearing styles
- Supports both Over-ear and Straight-down
- Included Accessories
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- Manuals
- Westone Audio's Eartips
- AIMTune Module
- 3.5mm-3.5mm Aux Cable (15cm)
- Silicone Cable Band