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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, Funny) by archfeld on Friday November 06 2015, @03:17AM
I can't stand listening to my 128 KBPS music library on sub-standard headphones. After all if I am going to listen to music at less than half its' original fidelity I want top of the line head phones to do it on :)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday November 06 2015, @07:29AM
Don't forget the audiophile who published a review of which hard disk brands played the best-sounding MP3s. No point in good headphones if you have a hard drive that's not audio quality :-)
(Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday November 06 2015, @08:18PM
And always remember to store your music on the right position on the hard disk. Sound quality varies a lot depending on where on the hard disk the audio is stored! ;-)
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