In the ‘90s, Sennheiser asked its engineers to make the best headphones ever and they came up with 300 sets of the legendary Orpheus HE90 , each pair of which sold for a princely sum $16,000.
Those headphones were designed with just one question in mind: what sort of headphones could you make if money wasn’t an issue?
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Today, if you can even find someone willing to part with one, an Orpheus HE90 could set you back close to $50,000. Of course, if you have that kind of change to spare, the company just made things a little simpler for you. Sennheiser — who turn 70 this year — have now gone back to the drawing board and created an ever better-sounding successor to those luxurious cans — but they’ll set you back by approximately $55,000. Yes, you can whistle. But if you are a very rich audiophile, then this might win you bragging rights for a long time to come.