 So a huge shout out to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at CES 2016. You can check out the link in the video description to learn more. So here we are in the private listening room on the show floor at the Sennheiser booth, and we are going to be seeing, for the first time, the $50,000 follow-up to the original Sennheiser Orpheus headphones. I haven't seen it yet, but apparently they're here somewhere. I actually don't know where they are. So let's go find out, because there's not a whole lot in here. Okay, so, oh, there's an activation experience. Yes, and this is one of the coolest things. Okay. So you have that knob right there with the red light. If you just press it in very gently, right there in front, just tap that in. Turns white. Yep. And then you'll see the front knobs. Ah, they all come out. The thing is motorized, and then the tubes will open up, and then the case will open up on its own and then kind of raise the headphones slightly. And this is done for two reasons. One, it's really fun to watch. Two, it also only takes 20 seconds for the tubes to warm up to be ready for use. So it's, the whole process is done with purpose. So that now you put your glass down, hit the button, have a sip of your drink, and then you're ready to go. Okay, so, so now what? I just take them out and off I go, or? You just take them out and run as fast as you can. Yeah, okay. So let's talk about the transducer for a minute. The main difference between an electrostatic headphone and a, well, a more traditional magnetic driven headphone is that, well, there's no magnets. You don't have magnets and a diaphragm, and then the differing magnetic fields move it back and forth and cause the vibration that creates the sound waves that you hear. Instead, we are actually using, we're actually manipulating these tiny thin sheets of, in this case, vaporized platinum to move back and forth to deliver the best possible sound. And when I say best possible sound, I really do mean they spend a lot of time figuring out that 2.8 micrometers was the optimal thickness for the vaporized platinum transducer. In order to achieve what they're saying is 8 Hertz, all the way up to 100,000 Hertz of frequency response. So to put that in perspective, I could not hear how good they are. Neither could you. I don't care how much of an audiophile. They are literally beyond human comprehension. It's true. The rest of the unit features fairly exotic materials and construction techniques as well. Everything from the aluminum fins on the outsides of the ear cups in order to keep the power sources cool, to the actual like hybrid velour sort of soft material and genuine leather material that sits up against your head for maximum comfort. Now, that's not to say that all of the craziness is necessarily in just the headphones. And let's move our attention to the entire completed unit. 6,000 hand-built components make up the entire Orpheus experience. Everything from the single slab of it's some fancy marble. I'm sure we can put a note in the video. I've forgotten what it is, but it's apparently very, very amazing. There we go. Carrera marble for the base station itself. It takes an entire day to create one of these units with someone assembling it in Germany. Yes, an entire day to build one of them. And they've even they thought of everything because the bottom of the amplifier unit itself is actually a shock absorber. So just in case you're on a crowded show floor hall floor and people are thundering around outside like elephants, it will be able to absorb some of that so it doesn't transfer it to the listener. But all of that's in theory. I haven't actually put them on yet. So why don't we do that next? I've always wondered what a $50,000 pair of headphones sounds like. Kind of shaky. So Hotel California is just the universal song that everyone's obviously heard on their high end headphones. Good choice. Well, The appointments are unfortunately only 15 minutes long, but it's very clear and this is not going to come as a surprise to anyone that that is by far the best rendition of Hotel California I have ever heard. However, would I pay $50,000 for it? Well, that's going to come down to the individual buyer. And this is the part of my CES coverage of the Orpheus that Sennheiser's probably not going to like that much. With the original Orpheus, what I liked about it was the exclusivity of the item. And while this one is expensive enough that not all of your neighbors are going to have one in their basement next to their, you know, old lazy boy from the 80s that's just the right kind of comfortable, they are not limiting production this time outside of a yearly maximum quota. So, would you, if you had the money, pay $50,000 even knowing that someone else could buy one if they could scrape together the dough? Or would you prefer Sennheiser had gone the same route as last time and made it a numbered limited edition? Let me know in the comments. And let me know in the comments below if you guys are enjoying our CES coverage so far. Don't forget to get subscribed to Linus Tech Tips so you don't miss any. And a huge thanks to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at CES 2016. Remember guys, if you're building a beautiful website, visit squarespace.com slash Linus, use offer code LINUS and you can save 10% on your website today. That is, that is just, I mean that is just incredible. I mean obviously any high-end pair of headphones you can kind of pick out an individual instrument, but this is, this is a very, very different level. This is like you've, yeah, it's, yeah.