CES 2009 – Sennheiser launches £1000 HD800 high-end headphones

While you could have probably bought the entire contents of your local Woolworths for that a week or so ago, Sennheiser has plenty of reasons as to why the HD 800s are worth any number of penny sweets and celebrity autobiographies.

The HD 800 cans are hand-made in Germany and use a specifically developed 56mm ‘RING driver’ – the largest currently found in any dynamic headphone, Sennheiser assures us.

Sporting an open-backed design, the ‘phones use stainless steel, aerospace grade plastics and Japanese Alcantra earpads.There are silver-plated, low-oxygen, detachable copper cables, too.

They do look the part and great if you’ve got a spare grand in your back pocket. And who doesn’t have that right now?

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home