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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @04:13AM
...and people with small children who go to bed early.
---and people with spouses who don't share the same taste in music.
It appears that you and number6 (below) have never had such encumbrances in your lives.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday November 06 2015, @05:19AM
And people who listen to music at work, or pretend that they are to people bother them less. That said I picked up some bamboo-housed headphones on sale for $20 and they're great.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday November 06 2015, @12:08PM
And people that fly
or take the train/subway
Active noise cancelling is amazing, rather than cranking my phone up to 11 I can hear it at 2 or 3.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday November 06 2015, @04:35PM
In those situations, the cheapest (comfy) noise-cancelling headphones achieving a decent attenuation are all you need, because the remaining noise is still way too high to bother with high-end reproduction, of your MP3 and streaming crummy audio.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday November 06 2015, @07:43PM
I've not found anthing more comfortable than a pair of Bose QC15s or 25s. Trouble with headphones is you need to wear them for a few hours to determine if they're ok for 2 hours or 20 hours.
US airways give out QC15s on their TATL flights, which sold me on a pair.