The three aspects I quoted in my head-fi post are some of the most questionable I've ever seen for any headphones, ever.
- $38k
- 'Best ear in the business' - (hilarious) which derives from head-fi reviewer 'Goldensound', which in turn derives the endorsment name/moniker for this set;
- 'Golden sound'
The whole value-proposition is retarded beyond comprehension.
Product development has been an integral part of my career but I've never seen anything as balls-out spurious, presumptious and entitled as this!
My only conclusion is that they're trying to hang on to the coat-tails of the Sennheiser Orpheus system that was doing the rounds of headphone shows for the past couple of years. That's a $50k system where true, somewhat verifiable and somewhat value-driven engineering and development has gone into it by a well known and established company. Still, $50k though?
For reference:
Warwick are asking $38k for their set with a headphone that has electrostatic drivers (really nothing new there and probably only mildly 'developed' to suit the design, adorned with nasty, tacky -looking gold bits and endorsed by '
Goldenshowers' ... whoops, I mean '
Goldensound' and an amp/DAC that looks like a generic Chinesium box with what looks like a really shitty, small Chinesium OLED screen with crap graphics and internals/electronics which propose nothing new or ground-breaking.
Idiots will buy it.
