and it all comes through clear as day. he acknowledges that the stratospheric price tag of the orpheus will keep it out of the hands of everyone but well-heeled aficionados, but he imagined coming home from a hard day, putting these headphones on, and letting himself get totally lost in ...
Take one look at the Sennheiser Orpheus's price tag and you might wonder who would consider such a device asecondarysystem. Its import duty alone must be higher than the entire price of all but a handful of other 'phones. I can't imagine anyone who listens primarily through loudspeakers pu...
As the headphone furore begins to die back, the L1400 HD 800 S continues its serene progress as Sennheiser's top open-back moving coil model (only the closed-back HD 820 and rarefied electrostatic Orpheus HE 1 are costlier) as if none of this had happened. And remarkably, if it were ...
the HD800 and the TOTL HE-1 (Orpheus). In fact the HD650 aka “The King” is one of my all-time favorite headphones tout court. No, the HD650 is not the very best headphone on the market, but it’s one that still and always...
In the 27 years that followed, Axel led a team of engineers that designed the HD600 series, the HD800 series, the ill-fated HD700, and the second-generationOrpheus(The 2015 HE 1). Contrary to information being shared online, Axel did not design the original Orpheus. It predates his tenur...
MORE:Sennheiser Orpheus hands-on Sennheiser HD800S at Richer Sounds for £1,099 Build There are numerous changes over the originalHD800. The most obvious difference is the shift from silver to black on the earpieces. But there’s more to the ‘S’ version than a mere colour change. ...
Sennheiser has achieved this level of quality with the HD-580s through a canny application of the technology developed in the manufacture of their reference-quality microphones and, of course, the Orpheus HE 90. The diaphragm is constructed of a mixture of polycarbonate and polyurethane to achieve...
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The Sennheiser HD 820 are part of one of the most illustrious lines in the entire headphone world. These are top-end Sennheiser cans, outside the limited-runOrpheusseries, which at €30,000 or more are the preserve of oligarchs and famous rappers. ...