Bose, Koss, Beats, and Phillips are in alliance because they're tired of being considered 'weak' because of their price tags. Sony and Stax remain neutral, but eventually Sony joins the Bose side in sympathy. Stax sides with Denon, AKG, Sennheiser and Grado, and the war begins to spin out of control. Millions die a thousand deaths - Stax and Sony's direct involvement allowed both sides to begin using transcendent levels of technology - in an instant, and eventually one lone warrior (the D7000) ends the war. The 'big names' in headphones are all burned away, not just dead, but completely wiped away. Fires a thousand light years long score the cosmos, and the last Great Sound War concludes.