{"id":83229,"date":"2015-11-05T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=83229"},"modified":"2015-11-05T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:02:32","slug":"fancy-a-headset-worth-r768-000-the-sennheiser-orpheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83229-fancy-a-headset-worth-r768-000-the-sennheiser-orpheus","title":{"rendered":"Fancy a headset worth R768, 000: the Sennheiser Orpheus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sennheiser has unveiled its latest pair of high-performance headphones \u2013 called\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en-de.sennheiser.com\/orpheus\" target=\"_blank\">Orpheus<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sennheiser-Orpheus-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83233\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sennheiser-Orpheus-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sennheiser Orpheus (1)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The headphones, which will retail for $55,000 (R768,000), are based on the company\u2019s\u00a01991 headset of the same name.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_83239\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1991-Sennheiser-Orpheus-HE90.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83239\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83239\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1991-Sennheiser-Orpheus-HE90.jpg\" alt=\"1991 Sennheiser Orpheus HE90\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The original Sennheiser Orpheus HE90 headset from 1991.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The latest model includes a\u00a0new signal processor, marble-clad design, oxygen-free copper cabling, and German leather.<\/p>\n<p>Amps are built into the ear cups to avoid noise introduced by cabling, while design improvements include eight DACs with a sampling rate of up to 384kHz.<\/p>\n<p>The frequency response is from 8Hz to over 100KHz.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/144903-these-are-sennheisers-r700000-headphones.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Seeing as we&#8217;re on the topic of things we can&#8217;t afford<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81403-would-you-look-at-that-an-8k-r1-8-million-tv.html\">Would you look at that, an 8K R1.8 million TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81005-an-r9-nano-powers-this-nearly-r100-000-10-tflop-pc.html\">An R9 Nano powers this nearly R100, 000, 10 TFlop PC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80921-asus-8-antenna-rt-ac5300-router-boasts-2-2gbps.html\">ASUS\u2019 8 antenna RT-AC5300 router boasts 2.2Gbps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, we&#8217;re not kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":83231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1929,1085,5722,1969,16325],"class_list":["post-83229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gadget","tag-hardware-2","tag-headset","tag-news-2","tag-sennheiser-orpheus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83237,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83229\/revisions\/83237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}