Wow .... €50K Headphones ... What next

Joni,

You are 100% right. These headphones are geared for the rich. They are definitely not made for audiophiles. ( sure there are a few rich audiophiles that might buy them, but not many)

I am sure you will see ads for them in the DuPont registry and the Robb report. That is the market for outrageous priced things. I just got the DuPont registry and there are a ton of ads not car related. Just expensive items for rich people. That is their market.

My previous comment was intended to point out that the Sennheisers simply represent the world we live in. Personally I think the items I listed are somewhat ridiculous and that there are better uses for society's limited resources. Apparently the world is not yet perfect.

Every $100,000,000+ home has color and smell of human of blood and flesh.
Come closer and feel it.

Every $100,000,000+ home has color and smell of human of blood and flesh. Come closer and feel it.

So do the iPhones in everyone's pockets.

Rich people hording their money is far worse for the rest of the people than if they spent the money, even if it is for obscenely expensive luxury goods. That money that Sennheiser makes on the headphones is a part of its income that pays salaries, as does the margin that the dealer and distributor makes. The "waste" of paying far more than the phones are "worth" goes somewhere, it is not really wasted in the sense that it disappears and does nothing more.

I know that most audiophiles do not consider headphones as serious audio gear, but, to a growing number of people, headphones are their favored means of listening. A combination of transducer and amp that costs $55,000 in the speaker world is quite high, but, it really isn't that uncommon; why should it be any different for phones?

I would certainly like to hear them, even though I would never consider a purchase. I like their prior electrostatic offerings (HE-60 and HE-90), but find that their more recent high end offerings in dynamic phones to be wildly inconsistent (I really dislike their top of the line model). It would be interesting to see what kind of sound they pursue and whether they go for the mellower sound of their old electrostatic models or the lean, bright and hyper-analytical sound of the HD 800).