AUDIO ENGINEER Tries the WORLD'S BEST HEADPHONES for the First Time | Sennheiser HE-1

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We've got to give credit where credit is due: you took the world's first $60k headphone prank like a champ 🏆For real, great recap and thanks for spending some time with our baby. Your pro audio chops help convey the experience 💙

If you live near Hanover, Germany, you coud theoretically listen to these headphones every day, because they are displayed at the Sennheiser Flagship Store (connected to their production facilities) in a seperate room. And if you kindly ask the staff, they let you in, leave you alone with a bunch of CDs and/or your mobile phone. And if you're lucky enough and the store isn't crowded, they even don't ask you to leave. Well, I listened to this very pair of headphones, my first song was (if I remember correctly) Ride Across The River by Dire Straits and yes: those headphones cost you as much as pretty well configured Volkswagen Passat, but they are worth every penny. The sound quality is so outstanding and astonishing, you can barely describe what you hear to someone just in words. So, if you live near Hanover, like I do, take a half day off, drive to the Wedemark and take a chance to listen to these masterpieces. I absolutely recommend. Edit: For all who are planning trips to Hanover now: Sennheiser unfortunately closed their flagship store due to the sellout of their customer headphone division. The pair of HE1 travels around now and is displayed at different HiFi-studios across the country.

The HE-1 really brings the violin to life. There is a suttle ticking noise in the song that the HE-1 makes it so much softer to the ear, really makes a difference. beautiful.

Me with my 2 dollars earphones:

This is, to my knowledge, the first sound demo of the HE-1 posted on YouTube. Really cool. They sound super impressive, even over just a sound demo.

My friend worked for Sennheiser and I got to try these out at a listening event. They had a bunch of pre-selected songs on tidal lossless. Him being awesome, let me chose any song I wanted and I chose introducing palace players by Mew, which I've listened to hundreds of times of decent headphones. It was like hearing it for the first time. Instruments were separated, but still somehow fit together. I could hear perfect detail on any element of the song I wanted to focus on. I spent the next few weeks genuinely depressed knowing how good music could sound, and how I'd likely never experience again because i couldn't afford 100k for headphones. Anywho, these headphones really are as good as they say they are.

Quality is everything. My man, you are so lucky to have this experience with the HE-1. I was aware about this masterpiece, but I am not that lucky to test it. Also, you have selected another masterpiece by HP. When the strongest emotions are triggered with these types of qualities and also if they are combined, a tear comes from heart. Big respect from Turkey. KR, Ugur.

It’s stunning the way the HE-1 grips & holds the music, bringing everything together & playing it as its originally intended.

I've been using HD650s for about 15 years now. I have not found anything that punches close to them without dropping a grand on some new cans that I feel I'd be afraid to even have my kids around. The 6XXs are such an INSANE workhorse. Big love to the 6XXs.

I’ve had the Sennheiser HD600 for 20 years now. No need to upgrade, ever! Kudos to any company like that offering spare parts instead of just replacements.

I'll never forget the first time I was blessed to be able to experience a Sennheier system when I was in high school and part of the band and being able to go to a college campus too have my ears delighted and graced to feel and experience a complete Sennheiser system within a sound proof audio chamber it literally brought tears to my eyes and resonated my whole body and soul! Maybe one day I'll be blessed to possess one of these exquisite and unique feat of engineering!! Ugh the good ole days of our youth that have come and gone! Stay blessed yall and remember to live life to the fullest and enjoy the life you have along with the simple things just as listening to music! 💯💞

I simply love your video style, truly refreshing and creative

the low end popping in from the 6XX to the HE-1 was mind blowing.

Thank you for sharing your incredible experience with us, Brandon. I'm becoming more and more of a fan of Sennheiser for the innovations they're pushing the industry forward. This thing is somethin' else. It's not a headphone. What they've created was an experience for that special person that can truly appreciate aural precision. I only wish my hearing was good enough to appreciate such amazing tech. For me this is the kind of experience equivalent to that of an expresso afficionado when they imbibe their very first god-shot. It was so amazing it kicked off a decade-plus year journey down the espresso rabbit hole. I've been searching for that elusive god-shot ever since. So I can definitely relate to what you've experienced, despite not having heard it (and I doubt I could experience it the same way because I don't have the same level of listening acuity as you do as a professional audio engineer)

Your reaction was priceless. Beautiful...Well done.

I truly cannot imagine what it feels like to listen to music from headphones of that caliber, i've been using mainstream closed-backs my whole life. Planars are next, but electrostatic is a whole different ballpark

Damn, that gave me chills. If it can give you such warmth of sound through the proxy - I can only imagine what it sounds like when actually worn. Great review.

Shoutout for using Tesseract's Seven Names. The mixing and production is so well done on that, and the writing is equally superb. Speaks to the quality of it when it's used in a test like this.

i was able to test it as well in a local hifi shop after talking about the pasison we share.... its hard to describe but it feels you ascend into another world.