Sennheiser’s New Flagship Headphones

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Posted by: Steven Stone at 12:12 am, January 9th, 2009

With a price of almost $1300 the new Sennheiser 800 headphones better be special. Well, they are. Hand built one at a time, the 800 employs a patent-applied for ring-shaped transducer made with a precision wound wire coil that’s only 42 micrometers thick. It has 3.5 layers of wire with exactly 98 windings. With a frequency response that ranges from 8 to 50 kHz the Sennheiser 800 sounds as smooth as it feels. It’s easily one of the most comfortable headphones I’ve ever worn, and if I could have managed it I would have gladly continued wearing them all day…BTW, that's not my head.

 

Comments

Mark L. (not verified) -- Fri, 01/09/2009 - 14:18

I'm glad that Sennheiser went away from the Princess Lea look from the HD-600/650. Do they 800's come with the detachable cables, too? And how sensitive are they (and I don't mean their sensitivity to insults)?

Steven Stone -- Wed, 01/14/2009 - 19:40

 Their sensitivity according to Sennheiser's specs is 102 dB at 1 volt rms.
 
No mention in the two wish-books I've got about "removable cord" so I suspect it's not removable.

Steven Stone
Contributor to The Absolute Sound, EnjoytheMusic.com, Vintage Guitar Magazine, and other fine publications

Anonymous (not verified) -- Tue, 01/27/2009 - 18:33

 They're on the wrong way round.

Michael (not verified) -- Tue, 04/07/2009 - 16:34

The image may be flipped/mirrored.

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