How $1,500 Headphones Are Made

CNETNate writes "A tour of Sennheiser's Hanover factory reveals for the first time how its audiophile headphones are assembled by hand. The company recently announced its most expensive and innovative headphones to date, the HD 800, which discarded the conventional method of headphone driver design for a new 'donut-shaped' ring driver idea. Only 5,000 of these headphones can be made in a year, and this gallery offers a behind-the-scenes look at the construction process."

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Ream-a-matic headphones

[Anonymous Coward]

So do audiophiles just bleed from the ass constantly? The combination of anal rape level prices for "expert equipment", and the need for all that unwarranted and pathetic pretentiousness to burst out somewhere... man, just doesn't seem worth it so you can act all audiophiley to your friends who, you should know, laugh their heads off when you are out of the room. And they laugh at you, not with you. You people are worse than the "I don't even own a TV, and I must work that fact into every conversation that I have in this life" douchebags.

A friend of mine once referred to headphones as "cans" so we threw him through a plate glass window. That made a believer out of him.