El Reg reports
Sennheiser has announced a new pair of headphones it says will cost "around €50,000" (£35,314 or US$54,279).
The forthcoming "Orpheus" model boasts silver-plated copper cable and "gold-vaporized ceramic electrodes and platinum-vaporized diaphragms ... exactly 2.4 µ thick, the result of extensive research that shows that any thinner or thicker would be sub-optimal." The accompanying amplifier boasts "comes from Carrara in Italy and is the same type of marble that Michelangelo used to create his sculptures.
The tubes "rise from the base and start to glow", and "the control elements, each of which are crafted from a single piece of brass and then plated with chrome ... slowly extend from the marble housing."
We could go on, but fear doing so may induce ire among some readers. Know, then, that there's a very gushy website here [ecmascript required] full of all the jargon a rich audiophile could want.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @12:44AM
plasma headphones. Like the plasma speakers that have no voice coil or cone, they work by high voltage plasma pulses that produce sound waves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasp88nbsRw [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday November 06 2015, @05:50AM
Still suck compared to Beets(TM) By Dr. Drey(TM) cuz thay got more base, dawg.
/audiojerk
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