AIAIAI
A Copenhagen audio company, founded in 2006, that makes modular headphones and speakers for DJs and music makers.
- Founded
- 2006
- Based in
- Copenhagen
Pictures © AIAIAI, from aiaiai.audio.
Why it is renowned
AIAIAI's modular TMA-2 headphone won a Product Design Lion at the Cannes Lions festival in 2015.1 It received a Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum in 2016.2 Its portable studio monitor, the UNIT-4, won a Red Dot Design Award in 2024.3 The company keeps a showroom and event space in Los Angeles, and DJs and producers such as Richie Hawtin, Bonobo and Charlotte de Witte work with it.3
The story
AIAIAI was founded in Denmark in 2006 and has its headquarters, showroom and office in the centre of Copenhagen.3 It designs for people who make music, on the road, in the studio and on stage, and builds its headphones from parts that can be swapped and replaced so they last.34
Works
UNIT-4 A portable, battery-powered studio monitor from AIAIAI that plays as a single speaker, a stereo pair or a wireless studio set.
TMA-2 DJ Wireless Wireless on-ear DJ headphones from AIAIAI's modular TMA-2 system, with a transmitter fast enough for beatmatching without a cable.
TMA-2 A modular headphone system from AIAIAI whose headbands, speaker units, ear pads and cables can be combined, swapped and replaced.
TMA-2 Studio Wireless Wireless over-ear studio headphones from AIAIAI's modular TMA-2 system, made for recording and mixing away from the desk.
What to know it by
- TMA-23Modular headphone system
- TMA-2 DJ Wireless4Wireless DJ headphones
- TMA-2 Studio Wireless4Wireless studio headphones
- UNIT-43Portable wireless studio monitor
Sources
- All the 2015 Cannes Lions Product Design winners. bizcommunity.com, read 1 October 2026.
- Good Design 2016 awarded product designs and graphics and packaging. chi-athenaeum.org, read 1 October 2026.
- About us, AIAIAI. aiaiai.audio, read 28 September 2026.
- AIAIAI. aiaiai.audio, read 28 September 2026.
Checked 6 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.