Sennheiser HD 700: Somewhere Between Very High End and Madness

Since the launch of the HD 800 as Sennheiser's new top model, its catalogue had a gaping hole to fill. It can now say, job done!


The HD 700 had been making noise on the net, with several sites showing prototype photos. Finally presented at CES, it should be in stores some time in March.

This new generation set of headphones is positioned between the very costly HD 800s, that come in at a tidy £1200, and the older but no less deserving HD 650s, launched back in 2003 and now available at under £300. The new model will be on sale at something under £700.

The HD 700s have nothing to be ashamed of in terms of spec in comparison to its predecessors: a frequency response of 10 Hz to 42 kHz, harmonic distorsion under 0.003% and an SPL of 105 dB. Impedance is announced at 105 Ohms. We will of course test these new cans as soon as we get our hands on a pair.


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