14 DAY TRIAL // Now, ?hi-end" can be achieved by following many roads and, obviously, having different types of hi-end customers in mind. One can simply make a diamond-studded headphone set and call it ?hi-end" because it simply costs $799,000 and some Paris-Hilton-kind-of-person might buy it. Now there is the other end of the high-end which means some people working their a**es out in order to produce real quality.
You don't have to be a sound engineer to figure out that "expensive" does not automatically involve "better" and that some headphones covered in diamonds have nothing better to offer when compared to a normal headset, acoustically and technically speaking. In addition, a sound producer will never need diamonds on his ears and will not spend a dime for coolness but for utmost quality and technical efficiency.
Ultrasone are one of the audiophile world's best-loved names when it comes to sound quality, beauty of shapes, reliability and class. So far, they have issued some quite fancy stuff which sold like crazy and brought moments of relaxed bliss to the owners; it's the case of Ultrasone's Edition 7 headphones, manually crafted in a 1000 piece edition, each coming in an unique cherry wood box and being more than exclusive.
Building upon the Edition 7's exquisite heritage, the new Edition 9 from Ultrasone delivers even more, combining the newest pieces of tech developed by the German company and being by far one of the elite headphones around.
Black chrome finish and handmade chrome-plated brass insignia go in perfect match with the Ethiopian sheep leather ear pads while the gold-covered connector jacks deliver signal to the titanium-plated mylar driver membranes providing a rich and tight sound, crystal-clear and sweet at the same time.
Using Ultrasone's latest technology, the Edition 9 headphones will re-define the way you perceive the surround sound, even without any piece of separate gear. They simply deploy sound around your head, having understood that the human outer ear is the key element for 3D-ing of sound. Technically, the Edition 9 ear cans will physically surround your head with sound so you'll think you're listening to speakers meters away and not with headphones on.
At the same time, Ultrasone's preoccupation for the health of the customer has found a new peak. The Edition 9 will allow the same intense "pressure" feeling at SPL values up to 4 decibels lower, thus protecting your hearing even more. Combine this with the ULE technology of magnetically shielding the new headphone series and we are getting closer to perfection, aren't we?
Well, it looks like perfection has its price... Ultrasone will ask nothing more than you paying almost $2,000 (1,499 Euro) for the kind of perfection they deliver. Given the massive success of Edition 7 and the pile of requests for an unlimited Edition 9 series, it seems that the German craftsmen will be busy quite some time...
