Ultrasone Announces New Super-High-End Headphones

Not an audiophile yet? You don’t know what you’re missing.

If you’re an Edition 9 user, you’ll be pleased to hear that Ultrasone has just announced their latest successor to the Edition 9s, the Edition 8. Ultrasone is giving audiophiles a tiny break in the economic downturn, by lowering the price of the Edition 8 to more than 15% less than the price of the Edition 9. Still, if you’re not a dedicated audiophile, you definitely won’t even think about purchasing the “cheaper” Edition 8 for HK$12,880!

With the outer earcups shelled in beautiful and durable Ruthenium, and the interior covered in fine Ethiopian sheepskin, this pair of headphones definitely gives the WOW statement. Ultrasone claims that Ethiopian sheepskin provides the most isolation of any leather, so that you can listen to your music in total tranquility. If you owned the Edition 9s, you’d know of just how high quality these Ethiopian sheepskin earcups are!

These headphones will also be the first in the Edition series to offer Ultrasone’s newest S-Logic Plus natural surround sound technology. This will provide audiophiles with a new, wider level of soundstage that they’ve never experienced before.

With the launch of these headphones, Ultrasone also claimed that these headphones have ULE technology, which supposedly reduces radiation to the head by more than 98% than normal headphones. This leads us to another thought– Radiation!? Nowadays, it seems like everything proposes some sort of health risk!

If you’re the kind of “tech” person, here are the pretty-impressive specs for you to see:

• Principle: Dynamic / Closed
• Impedance: 30 Ohm
• Driver size: 40mm Titanium plated
• Magnet: NdFeB
• Frequency range: 6 – 42.000 Hz
• SPL: 96 dB
• Weight (excl. cord): 260g
• USC Cord length: 1,2m (OFC Cable)
• USC Extension cable 4m (OFC Cable)
• 3,5mm gold plated plugs
• Adapter 3,5/6,3mm gold plated
• ULE technology

We personally don’t have the Edition 8 yet, so we can’t tell you just how good these headphones really sound. However, at HK$12,880, we’d expect more than just “better sound than iPod earbuds” to be impressed. If you plan to connect these directly to your iPod without a dedicated headphone amp, then these really aren’t going to be worth it. However, if you have a dedicated set of audiophile equipment, then you may really want to give these HK$12,880 headphones a try.