Sennheiser unveils $3,000 glass-covered headphones
 

Clearly they are better. :p

:lmao:

When Senn saw all the competitors selling $3K+ headphones they knew they were leaving a bunch of change on the table. Am guessing their designers spent some serious over-time trying to get something together to play at that level.

Unless Senn is changing their minds, price is $2,395.95US.

HA! I see what you did there. 🧐

I see very little advantage of using glass, even Gorrilla Glass for headphones. Glass has never been a sympathetic resonance partner of any good kind in my book. :D

I see this as Sennheiser's way of entering the $3k market with an answer to a question no one asked in the form of exotic cup material. Glass.... too funny. :no:

The speculation on other sites is that the glass (which is curved) is actually used to focus/reflect/direct the backwave right into significant absorption mechanisms they've distributed in the cups.

But now we have THREE versions of HD800, each with increasing prices, and I can't help but think of Morrissey singing "reissue, repackage, repackage". I'm not a fan of the HD800 so I'm skeptical these will take down Stax 009 or Utopia for me.

Bet they do not sound warm and fuzzy but just like a speaker does near a glass pane. :D