Final Audio D8000 Pro planar magnetic headphonesHeavy metal
Aug 16, 2021
4 minutes
Extraordinary headphones, once again, from Japan’s Final Audio. The last pair of their cans to cross our threshold were the giant golden Sonorous X design, which sold for $7399. These silvery (actually aluminium-magnesium alloy) D8000 Pro headphones are a mere $4999.
But before you get hung up on their price, consider how much you could pay for a pair of speakers, or a high-end power amplifier. We do believe, very much, that there is no upper limit on hi-fi, nor on how it should be priced, provided there are sonic gains still to be wrung from the additional cost, and that the price reflects that cost, rather than being plucked from thin air as an enormous geffen mark-up
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