Sennheiser launched the
successor to Orpheus, new Sennheiser HE 1, headphones in India. If you want to
put your hand to your heart for the price, now is the time to do so, as the
company has priced the headphones at Rs. 45 lakhs for the country and will be
made available from May 27.
The new HE 1 premium headphones offer "a frequency response that
extends beyond the range of human hearing and the lowest total harmonic
distortion that has ever been measured in an audio reproduction system."
In order to achieve improved sound, the new
Sennheiser HE 1 headphones use a tube amplifier. The amplifier comes with eight
vacuum tubes that are used to process the incoming signal. The company claims
that the use of tube amplifiers is because of their superior impulse
processing. However, as the tubes are sensitive to air-borne-noise, the company
says that it crafted amplifier housing from granular, inhomogeneous Carrara
marble and says that it is freely suspended with the amplifier.
