Why spend GBP 1,000 headset?

Smartphone maker HTC beats by dre electronics, best known to high-end headphones and the establishment of partnerships and rapper Dr ore 51% stake in the company to pay $ 30.9 billion (£ 19 billion).

Dom Tamiflu at the specialist headphone company Sennheiser United Kingdom consumer product manager said: "the quality of most of the music on the device constraints are headphones".

"This is not good, if you have a litter on the headset has the best quality of music. That said, low-quality headset cover up defects in some of the quirks and MP3.

Market is now worth $ 680 million a year (£ 41.5 billion) and growth.

Advanced audio company Bose has been playing around to cancel any noise out antiwave's market, pioneer in this section.

But this technology needs to spend a lot of money to buy it. Some high-fidelity is critical to create "closed" headphone sound. After the difference is subtle but with a closed means that internal creates a very slight sound echoes and "cave effect" headset.

This is a very good public areas you will not have suffered considerable embarrassment of Cliff Richard · Track the person sitting next to you. Not very good, if you want to be "real" and "open" the sound, said that more desirable by the manufacturer.

Difference is a subtle, but think of all those willing to spend £ 1,000 top pair of headphones.

But with the MP3 revolution to compromise with low quality sound. 1411Kb/s CD should be reduced, initially, at least, the bit rate of less than one-tenth.

However, many display has carried out tests to the casual listener, there are no significant differences between files encoded at 256 KB/s and those in CD quality.

Separate equipment cost of 800 pounds (US $ 130 billion), but is expected to be the future integration to high-end headphones.

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To achieve the perfect listening experience is not the only one taking into account issues-headset is a fashionable Declaration.

Since the days of the original Walkman, headphones have been in close contact to the most cool.

This took it to a new level, with Apple's White iPod headphones, many companies have dabbled with creating a product, eyes, and ears called for.

Sennheiser in partnership with sports manufacturer adidas to create a series of products. About top models sold within this range: 50 ($ 8.1 billion) exceeded the corresponding brand.

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Feeny said: "this is exactly the same products with the same sound quality but no blank lines, price premiums".

"When tweeters when playing alone, one can barely, is all hear one thing," explained Thomson audio high-end manufacturer specification sheets.

"Notable, but all the listeners ... ... super-tweeters, described as a more natural and comfortable, when you listen to their sound system, encountering the same enhancements. "

The reason behind it is, re-create the entire sound means that it will interact more naturally with the surrounding environment. Is said to have the most dramatic effect on vinyl LPs and Blu-ray discs, which captures more than a normal CD audio spectrum.