Sennheiser Orpheus Recognized as CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree in Two Categories

Sennheiser has been named a CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree for its state-of-the-art Orpheus headphones. The electrostatic headphone system has been honored in both the ‘Headphones’ Category and the ‘High Performance Home Audio-Video’ Category. Sennheiser’s Orpheus, which will be hand-crafted in Germany and available from mid-2016, impressed the jury with its combination of innovative technology with carefully selected materials and highest-quality craftsmanship.

Following the intriguing teaser web campaign “Reshaping Excellence”, launched September 1st during an event in London to celebrate its 70th anniversary year, Sennheiser finally revealed the successor to the legendary Orpheus, originally introduced in 1990. The 2015 Orpheus reintroduces the concept of the world’s best headphones.

Do you want to know how good audio from smartphones actually is? Would you like to know which sound measurement apps are available for smartphones? Or would you prefer to build The PhaseBuster, a unique way to manipulate the phase between stereo channels? Or would you prefer to build a headphone hybrid amplifier? All that and much more can be found in audioXpress November 2015, available online.

June 2015 is – we have to say it – undoubtedly one of the most diverse and interesting issues we have put together. The magazine has something for everyone and lots of great content we are certain will be greatly appreciated by our community. Discover the “outside-the-box” thinking that resulted in one of the most interesting loudspeaker designs in recent times and much more.