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Sennheiser HD 820

Original price was: $4,299.00.Current price is: $2,999.00.

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A benchmark listening experience as vivid as it is uninterrupted.

The new audiophile standard

The critics said closed headphones could never sound as immersive as their open-air counterparts. They said physics would never allow it. To that we simply said, “listen”. The HD 820 combines an innovative glass reflector and ring radiator transducer technology for a benchmark listening experience.

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  • The new audiophile standard for closed-back headphones
  • Concave Gorilla Glass reflectors deliver impressive spatial sound reproduction
  • Ultra-ergonomic adjustable metal headband with inner damping element
  • Developed in Germany and precision-built at Sennheiser’s state-of-the-art Ireland plant
  • Frequency Response: 6 – 48,000 Hz (-10 dB)
  • 56mm Ring Radiator dynamic transducer system
  • Acoustic absorber system prevents frequency masking for unheralded detail
  • Luxuriously comfortable microfiber ear and headband padding on key contact points
  • Impedance: 300 ohms
  • Total harmonic distortion: 0.02 % (1 kHz 1 Vrms)

What’s in the box?

  • Headphones HD 820 (closed, dynamic headphones)
  • connection cable: ¼” (6.35 mm) stereo jack plug (connected ex works), unbalanced
  • 4.4 mm Pentaconn stereo jack plug, balanced
  • XLR-4 connector, balanced
  • USB flash drive (SD-U16L version) with instruction manual (as PDF file) and individually diffuse-field frequency response curve
  • instruction manual
  • storage box
  • microfiber cloth

The look of superior quality

A well-conceived audio component always looks good – inside and out. With their unique glass covers the HD 820 display all the evidence to prove this. They are an aesthetical timeless classic and a natural technical beauty.

Audiophile connectivity

Only what gets in can eventually get out. That’s why the HD 820 come with a specially tuned symmetrical, impedance-matching cable with low capacitance and a balanced 4.4 mm gold plug, which offers superior characteristics in contact resistance, and thus in sound.

An all-star team of excellent components

Made in Germany, the HD 820 stand apart also because of the extraordinary attention that is given to every detail: From the extra comfortable handcrafted ear pads that insulate the listener from ambient noise, to the silvercladded OFC cables and gold-plated plugs, to the robust metal headband with an inner damping element. This package offers an unparalleled listening experience, which can even be improved by the Sennheiser HDV 820 amplifier for dynamic headphones – the perfect companion to the HD 820.

The technology of transparency

The breakthrough transparent performance of the HD 820 has been achieved through a special innovation: Their legendary Sennheiser Ring Radiator transducers are fitted with unique glass covers. Revealing the great look of the technical component within, this visually striking feature was actually developed wholly in service to the sound: The concave glass reflects the sound waves from the rear of the transducer to an absorber, which results in minimal resonance. Thus, the sound waves are effectively “gone” like they would be in open headphones.

Into the great wide open

Vivid, wide, transparent, natural. The sound field of the HD 820 is wide open. Which is not what you would expect at all from closed circumaural headphones. With the HD 820 you can explore and rediscover your music in absolute reference-class quality without intruding on the aural comfort zone of others. Thus, the HD 820 not only open up the sound field, but also new places and opportunities for you to enjoy your music.

Frequency Response: 12 – 43800 Hz (-3 dB) 6 – 48000 Hz (-10 dB)

Sound Pressure Level: 103 dB at 1 kHz, 1V

Jack Plug: 6.3 mm / Pentaconn / (XLR4)

Cable Length: 3m

Impedance: 300 Ohms