so a huge shout out to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at CES 2016 you
can check out the link in the video description to learn more so here we are
in the private Listening Room on the show floor at the Sennheiser booth and
we are going to be seeing for the first time the
$50,000 followup to the original Sennheiser Orphus headphones I haven't
seen it yet but apparently they're here somewhere I actually don't know where
they are so let's go find out cuz there's not a whole lot in here okay so
oh there's an there's an activation experience acation yes and this is one
of the coolest things okay so you have that knob right there with the red light
if you just press it in very gently uhhuh right there in front yep just tap
that in okay turns white yep and then
you'll see the front knobs they all come out everything is motorized and then the
tubes will open up and then the case will open up on its own and then kind of
raise the headphone slightly and this is done for two reasons one it's really fun
to watch two it also only takes 20
seconds for the tubes to warm up to be ready for use so it's the whole process
is done with purpose so that now you put your glass down hit the button have a
sip of your drink and then you're ready to go okay so um so now what I just take
him out and off I go take them out and run as fast as you can yeah
okay so let's talk about the transducer for a minute the main difference between
an electrostatic headphone and a well a more traditional magnetic driven
headphone is that well there's there's no magnets you don't have magnets and a
diam and then the uh differing magnetic fields move it back and forth and cause
the vibration that creates the sound waves that you hear instead we are
actually using we're actually manipulating these tiny thin sheets of
in this case vaporized Platinum to move
back and forth to deliver the best possible sound and when I say best
possible sound I really do mean they spend a lot of time figuring out that
2.8 micrometers was the optimal
thickness for the vaporized Platinum transducer in order to achieve what
they're saying is 8 Hertz all the way up
to 100,000 Hertz of frequency response so
to put that in perspective I could not hear how good they are neither could you
I don't care how much of an audio file they are literally Beyond human
comprehension it's true
the rest of the unit features fairly exotic materials and construction
techniques as well everything from the aluminum fins on the outsides of the ear
cups in order to keep the power sources cool to the actual like hybrid vure sort
of soft material and genuine leather material that sits up against your head
for maximum Comfort now that's not to
say that all of the craziness is necessarily in just the headphones and
let's let's move our attention to the entire completed unit
6,000 handbuilt components make up the
entire orus experience everything from
the single slab of it's some fancy marble I'm sure we can put a note in the
video I've forgotten what it is but it's apparently very very amazing there we go
Carrera marble for the base station itself it takes an entire day to create
one of these units with someone assembling it in Germany yes an entire
day to build one of them and they've even they thought of everything because
the bottom of the amplifier unit itself
is actually a shock absorber so just in case you're on a crowded show floor hall
floor and people are thundering around outside like elephants it will be able
to absorb some of that so it doesn't transfer it to the listener but all of
that's in theory I haven't actually put them on yet so why don't we do that next
I've always wondered what a $50,000 pair of headphones sounds like
kind of shaky so Hotel California is just the
the Universal Song that everyone's obviously heard on their high-end
headphones it's the sen for 30
years
well the appointments are unfortunately only 15 minutes long
but it's very clear and this is not going to come as a surprise to anyone
that that is by far the best rendition of Hotel California I have ever heard
however would I pay $50,000 for it well that's going to come
down to the individual buyer and this is the part of my CES coverage of the orus
that Sennheiser is probably not going to like that much with the original orus
what I liked about it was the exclusivity of the item and while this
one is expensive enough that not all of your neighbors are going to have one in
their basement next to their you know old Lazy Boy from the 80s that's just
the right kind of comfortable they are not limiting
production this time outside of a yearly
maximum quota so would you if you had
the money pay $50,000 even knowing that someone else could buy one if they could
scrape together the dough or would you first Sennheiser had gone the same route
as last time and made it a numbered limited edition let me know in the
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today that is uh that is just I mean
that is just incredible I mean obviously
any high-end pair of headphones you can kind of pick out an individual
instrument but this is this is a very very different level this is like you've
yeah it's
um yeah