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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @04:35AM
You don't need to demagnetize your CD or DVD as long as you rewind it first. You can buy CD/DVD rewinders so you don't wear down the bungspool threads in your player. Here's a video showing a mid-price rewinder... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVs1KPwX3o [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @06:37AM
I sell those. $500 each. I already sold like 50.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @02:48PM
Oh my uncle the one who blew out three cables learned that the hard way. He had the re-winder too that you show. It only sorta worked. You must get both. Those waves induced in the length of the cable from a magnetized CD will harmonize on the particular music and cause distortions that any idiot can hear. Make sure you demagnetize too and the waves will not be created. The rewinding is just convenient for the next time you want to hear it in your perfectly sealed room.