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.
