14 DAY TRIAL // Gather round and brace yourselves for the arrival of the Sennheiser RS 220 wireless headphones, which shall give wallets and banks no quarter.
The blunt approach may or may not work in this case but, moving right to what hurts, the Sennheiser RS 220 are priced at $599.95 (434.55 Euro).
That's more than some complete PCs and definitely a lot more than most, if not all, other wireless speakers and headphones out there.
Sennheiser did know what it was doing, though, and it decided not to spare any expenses on this one occasion.
Basically, these headphones are a very comfortable set which can stay connected to whatever is playing the sound at a distance of up to 300 feet.
That's 91 meters, which is loads more than the 10 meters that wireless products are commonly rated for.
Granted, indoors distance (factoring in walls and such) is of 100 feet, but that is still 30 meters, which is no small feat.
“Reproducing music as naturally as possible and therefore as closely as possible to the original has always been the dream of audio engineers and audiophiles alike,” explained Maurice Quarré, director of Product Lifecycle Management at Sennheiser Consumer Electronics.
“The conventional means of transmission for reproduced sound is the cable. It conducts the analog signal directly and with no delay from the audio source to the transducer in the headphones.”
Sennheiser threw in the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) technology (for audio quality) and designed the headphones with around-the-ears earcups, velour ear pads and an adjustable headband.
The product will sell with a charging dock/transmitter (has digital inputs in optical and coaxial formats) and will start selling soon, whatever that means (probably in time for the Holidays, at any rate).
“The RS 220 can be connected to various outputs: analog, coaxial digital and optical digital," Grell said.
“Discerning users can therefore decide themselves on the type and quality of the audio signal being fed in.”