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 maxwell demon on Friday November 06 2015, @08:28PM
Isotopically pure? That's far from the best! The best audio comes from cables with an isotopic superlattice! The different isotopes form a perfect phononic crystal which can transmit the sound with much less distortion than an isotopically pure cable. But make sure to only buy quality: Not only the crystal, but also the phononic crystal must be monocrystalline. Especially defects in the latter are clearly audible!
Of course such cables are expensive to produce, so don't expect a price below $500,000. Anything cheaper cannot be a true quality cable!
SCNR :-)
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