For years the audio community has questioned and rumoured Sennheiser's successor to the company's flagship reference headphones - the HD650. Now the rumour has become a reality.

CES 2009, Las Vegas: Sennheiser announced the release of its master-class reference headphones - HD800.




The Sennheiser HD800 will feature:

• Open, circum-aural dynamic stereo headphones
  
• Natural hearing experience - realistic and natural sound field with minimal resonance
  
• Biggest transducers ever used in headphones up to today - new innovative dynamic transducer design
  
• Uncovered earcups for acoustic and stylistic reasons
  
• Ear pads made of special high-quality Japanese Alcantara
  
• Metal headband with inner damping element
  
• Specially tuned symmetrical, impedance matching cable with low capacitance
  
• Special high precision headphone connectors

The HD800 is listed with a MSRP of $1400.

Want to know how it sounds? Check out the first ever review on this pair of long awaited treasures.