Denon Officially Announces Its New Headphones! - Page 7

 

It's the internet, you're going to get many different types of people here. I'm a designer, so I *better* care about the looks of things. 

 

Though, I do have to agree, I'm surprised as many people care enough as we've seen on this thread. It's fairly evident that most people really don't care that much about looks/design. Especially considering the amount of athletic shoes/gym shorts/sweatpants out there.

But that's a rant for another time. :)

Well i hope to get one of these when they come out would these headphones count as Audiophile ?

 

Depends on how they sound, but my guess would be yes. :)

Whether they're proper hifi is another question entirely, and a much harder one to answer.

Well thanks just wanted to know, i know a lot of people don't care about look its just sometimes i do and these look really great and there audiophile so thats awesome because they look Urban ^_^

 

or else

 

It's very interesting to see how tastes differ. Some people hate the hell out of the looks, and some brave souls have voiced their strong approval of the design.

 

I just thought it was interesting. :)

Yes it is great to see what everyone thinks ^_^

Aren't audiophile and Hifi the same thing? 

Not in England. I expect these to sell near £800 =~ $1200

 

It depends on the definition.

A lot of people would consider most mid-fi headphones (that are pretty popular here) as "audiophile" headphones as well. Whereas hifi is the top tier of "audiophile" gear.

This. $1100+ for a semi-closed dynamic? The headphone market is starting to resemble the speaker market more and more. It's inevitable, I suppose, once manufacturers drive price expectations up to where people think that anything below $1k is not high-end.

Of course you could argue that in the Orpheus/R10 days you had even more insanely-priced flagships but the sheer market saturation with $1k+ headphones of dubious quality together with price increases on entry-level high-end stuff (as well as it being discontinued entirely) paints a pretty different picture.

I'm hoping that the entry and mid-level models in this series will be good, and not much more expensive than D2k/D5k.

another thing that I noticed hasn't been mentioned (at least in this thread) is that the new design will likely eliminate the screw issue I read about.

seems like a more integrated way to keep the cup portions from breaking away from the band.

I think they honestly look a lot classier than the prototype. Definitely livable in my opinion.

Denon's now come with All The Things? :0

 

Well said man.

 

There's been a constant swath of headfiers buying their d7k's new in the americas for around the $550 mark. Nearly three times less than the usa price of the hd800 ($1500). But In the uk the world is very different; never did the d7k's even come under half the £1000 hd800 mark. Heck, the d5k just about did!

 

I won't be surprised if denon's new top model hits the £1k mark here