[tourmaline]

Last year it was buzzing with news about new to come elektrostatic headphones and dynamic flagships. However, as of now, it is awfully quit about sennheiser or any new headphones comming to the market this year.


Any news is welcome.....i am ready for a new sennheiser!

 

[feh1325]

hd700 is coming out soon
seriously

and any time now, grado is gonna come out with the HF-2

so check the MOT forums obsessively

 

[mmwwhats]

Last time Senn came out with a new phone it was a refinement of an old, not a total revamp... that'll prob. happen again when another comes out.

 

[Philco]

Sennheiser probably wanted to wait for Beyer and AKG to launch their flagship headphones, then read Head-Fi and come up with the HD700 that will encompass the best characteristics of those. If you ask me, it's a wise move. The HD700 will probably destroy anything else dynamic on this planet !

 

[aaron313]

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Originally Posted by Philco /img/forum/go_quote.gif Sennheiser probably wanted to wait for Beyer and AKG to launch their flagship headphones, then read Head-Fi and come up with the HD700 that will encompass the best characteristics of those. If you ask me, it's a wise move. The HD700 will probably destroy anything else dynamic on this planet !

Heh, I doubt Sennheiser researches Head-Fi.

 

[Philco]

If I was them, I certainly would !
The amount of customer feedback found on here has more value than the ears of 4-5 engineers trapped in a lab 24/7 for 4 years

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Originally Posted by aaron313 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Heh, I doubt Sennheiser researches Head-Fi.

 

[ericj]

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Originally Posted by mmwwhats /img/forum/go_quote.gif Last time Senn came out with a new phone it was a refinement of an old, not a total revamp... that'll prob. happen again when another comes out.

I imagine that their reluctance to release a new flagship is a combination of two factors.

1: HD650 is still selling just fine, and so is the HD600 now that they've discontinued the HD580.

2: Can't think of yet another way to spiff up the HD580 chassy, and not sure they could get away with it again anyhow.

 

[Uncle Erik]

You never know - Sennheiser might be saving a product launch for the holidays. We'd probably hear about it in late October.

 

[ericj]

I remember seeing a quote from sennheiser that canjam '08 was going to be a "big event" for them. I take it sennheiser was there with the sameol sameol, if at all?

 

[number1sixerfan]

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Originally Posted by aaron313 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Heh, I doubt Sennheiser researches Head-Fi.

I am pretty sure they do...any smart business would. What we have to say probably won't make or break any decisions though..

 

[glitch39]

haven't seen any leaks about the Senn 700's. any advance info on these yet?

 

[greggf]

Well, if anybody from Sennheiser is paying attention, I want a blend of the best of the HD600 and the HD650:


A richer, fuller HD600, but without the bassy colorations and dark ooze of the HD650.

In other words, a more neutral HD650.


((I suspect that Sennheiser can't do it. I suspect that the way that they produce the creamy smoothness of the HD650, compared to the HD600/580, is by adding that very darkness or bassy warmth. Remove it, and you have . . . the HD600.

So I suspect that Sennheiser's current high-end product stagnation and impotence is due to the fact that 1) they can't do any better, and 2) enough of us yahoos keep buying the HDs.

After all, what are the alternatives? Screechy, metallic-sounding Beyerdynamics and threadbare, overdetermined [in an obsessive-compulsive sense] AKGs? Overpriced-yet-still-crude Denons, made by a company that may soon disappear from the face of the earth, or, at the least, be transmogrified into a lowest-common-denominator boombox manufacturer?))

 

[TheDeliveryMan]

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Originally Posted by aaron313 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Heh, I doubt Sennheiser researches Head-Fi.

i bet we do...

 

[Duggeh]

Ortho, piezo or AMT please Sennheiser

 

[EnOYiN]

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Originally Posted by Duggeh /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ortho, piezo or AMT please Sennheiser

Now you are asking too much. Maybe a new kind of surrounder would be reasonable?