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09212 t1_jacgn50 wrote

Reply to comment by oratory1990 in The Sennheiser veil is too real by rob417

yeah exactly. i was just pointing out that whichever way you put it, it’s not a 27 year old headphone

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oratory1990 t1_jackq2w wrote

It's origin is the HD580, which was released in 1993. That's 30 years ago.
The HD580 Jubilee (1995) and HD600 (1996) are small modifications of the HD580, and the HD650 (2003) has slightly less distortion.

It's old - ancient, if you were to apply the same metrics as for e.g. semiconductors.
But (passive) headphones are not semiconductors, and how good a headphone is generally doesn't correlate a lot with how old it is.

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