wilzc
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Maybe Zelkova Serrata has become endangered and thus not allowed to be cut down to make no more high end wood headphones
Maybe Zelkova Serrata has become endangered and thus not allowed to be cut down to make no more high end wood headphones
There's a new Sony MDR-R10 now, it's called the Fostex TH900, they've spent years developing it and the drivers are made in the same technique as the R10 (bacteria cultures in a lab).
The housing of the TH900 is wood (zelkova serrata I think) and the magnetic flux density is the highest of any headphone, surpassing Tesla T1/T5p.
On top of that, it's finished with a Japanese lacquer made from poison ivy, called Urushi, found on quality products.
It really is the new R10, all I can imagine is missing is possibly angled drivers and aerodynamically shaped wood, and of course a Sony rep delivering it to you in a limosuine.
Sony pioneered the bio-cellulose technology and followed up on it in the cheap E888 earphone amongst others (which sounds very good and natural).
Now they have moved on to LCP (Liquid crystal polymer) drivers, which are used on the Z1000, MDR-7520 and EX1000.
More recently, Sony's entire development team for portable audio have been focusing on creating balanced armature drivers, which are due for release in Japan in two days (November 10th, 2011).
Pride is dead, Profit is everything.
Yeah I know, and the audiophile DAC in the PS1.
Cost cutting, so what? It became cheaper for the consumers as well, the first PS3's cost over $1000, and still sell for more than the slim verisons second hand.