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Adorama has
Sennheiser HD 800 S Open-Back Headphones for
$1199.
Shipping is free.
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Features:- Reference class open-back audiophile headphones
- 56mm Ring Radiator dynamic transducer system
- Impressively natural and spatial listening experience
- Acoustic absorber system prevents frequency masking for unheralded detail
- Ultra-ergonomic adjustable metal headband with inner damping element
- Luxuriously comfortable microfiber ear and headband padding on key contact points
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Look, unless they're going to also buy a high end DAC (perhaps unnecessary now) and a high end headphone amp with balanced outputs, they're probably better off with their current Beats bluetooth headphones.
Oh, those headphones cost $55,000. They had free appointment demos.
- A dedicated room: Add an inner wall with fiberglass insulation and sheetrock with no studs as sound bridges. (Basically a new room floating in insulation inside your old room.)
- Add acoustical elements to the room: Some pyramid foam, but also just framed canvas art with fiberglass insulation on the inside.
- PC must be outside the room, or in a soundproof enclosure. Get a PC that turns off PS and CPU fan with low load.
- Bring the audio from the pc on the optical port to a high end preamp. Does not need to be expensive, just away from the PC with all that electrical interference.
- Make sure your monitor is noise free, and disconnect any speakers in the monitor.
The headset can deliver more dynamic range than your ear can process, but you will easily get 50dB noise in your room and 40dB electrical noise interference from you PC, and then the dynamic range is reduced a lot, and you waste your money on anything over a hundred $$.
With the above, you should get down to about 10dB, similar to normal breathing, and any lower gets expensive. Expect to spend about $20k for a small room, and a few k$$ for electronics and gear. Don't buy this headset unless you are willing to do this, but if you do, you will get an unbelievable experience well worth it.
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