People who have actually listened through these luxurious $55,000 headphones claim that they’ve never heard anything like it before. So the question still remains, are these headphones actually worth $55,000?
The Dottir Freedom On-Grid buds and the Sennheiser Sport True Wireless are both pretty decent buds. The former offer excellent water resistance, great bass and impressive noise cancellation. The latter provides comfort, quite dominating bass and intuitive controls.
The Sennheiser EPOS GSX 300 manages to be both a solid external sound card and an intuitive profile swapping device, that is both sleek and satisfying.
The GSP 601 thoroughly impressed with its audio realism and striking design but I had to deduct half a point for the exceptionally tight volume wheel.
It might be a wonder + luxury both, but it certainly out of my reach. I mean $55,000, com'on!
No doubt Sennheiser builds a lot of great sounding headphones but new Orpheus HE1060 will be bought mainly for collection/appreciation purposes I believe.
Just look at first Orpheus HE90 which started at around $15,000 and is now fetching up to more than twice the amount.
Funny is people do forget how sound is captured, with regular membranes on mic’s like the Shure SM58 superbeta, or AKG’s studio mic or even some Sennheiser shotgun, then the sound travels inside .10cent/meter klotz cable, I’ve seen the most stupid audiophiles discussing cables because this or that costs 1000€/meter, when they have regular cd’s or even master cd’s that were recorded like I’ve stated above, expecting the zillion€ stereo to reproduce what wasn’t recorded in the first place. Yes, this phone are art, they are not for the regular of us and they do need to cost 55k to some another stupid audiophile say they have the crown of headphones. Btw, planar electrostatic speakers are here for ages, and they always sucked, because.. well.. they can’t vibrate under 1000hz, guess where the bass is. Good product ,yes, expensive, yes, If I had the money to buy one, I would? Nope. Got better for 3 zeros less.
Overpriced as fk, only for extremists that believe that more expensive the better or for rich ass to show off.