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posted by janrinok on Friday November 06 2015, @12:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the audiophilia-for-the-1-percent dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Friday November 06 2015, @04:59AM

    by Non Sequor (1005) on Friday November 06 2015, @04:59AM (#259290) Journal

    Why would I spend that much money on magnets and boxes?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @10:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @10:04PM (#260120)

    Hello, fellow reductionist! The LHC is also poor value for money, as it's little more than magnets and tubes.