Sennheiser announces the Orpheus Reborn headphones

Sennheiser has just announced their new pair of Orpheus headphones, over 10 years after the original pair was released. 'So what?' you might be asking yourself, but the very interesting thing about these headphones, above all, is the price tag: These cans will set you back by a humongous $55,000! (about £40,000)

These headphones have a frequency ranging from 8Hz to 100,000Hz - humans can hear from about 20Hz to 20000Hz - This is total overkill from Sennheiser.

The special thing about these headphones? they have a valve pre-amp made of solid marble and use electrostatic technology. Sennheiser claims that this will provide us with a pair of headphones with a 100 decibel sound pressure level, and a harmonic distortion of a minuscule 0.01%. If these claims are true, it makes the headphones one of the cleanest (Clearest) audio products ever made.

The electrostatic design means that there are no resonances or damping issues, therefore they should produce extremely clear sound. The downside to this: The electrostatic design means that the headphones are a pain to produce, and they need an amplifier with a high Amp rating.

The headphones also use silver-plated copper wires, as well as a chipset which has 8 DACs (Digital to Analog Converters) and a sampling rate of 384kHz to set it apart from the competition.

If you ask me, I honestly don't think that Sennheiser won't sell over 50 of these devices as, although the technology promises a perfect (Or at least to the human ear, that is) audio experience, I just can't think of anyone who would pay £40,000 on a pair of headphones.

On a side note, you can expect to see these monsters on sale sometime in the middle of next year, just in case you're interested in purchasing these (for some odd reason).

Via: | Ars Technica | Source: | Sennheiser |

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