Sennheiser’s latest earphones offer high-end looks for $150

I imply, certain, in the event you’re carrying wired in-ear headphones in 2023, you may completely purchase a pair with the cables going straight down. Or you may get a pair with wires that go up and swoops backward behind your ears like Sennheiser’s newest pair of earbuds, the IE 200, and faux you’re a musician onstage at Glastonbury each time you’re carrying them.

At $149.99, these in-ear headphones (or, I assume, in-ear screens) sit on the backside of Sennheiser’s IE vary, which matches as much as the eye-wateringly costly $1,499.95 IE 900. However the fundamentals are (ostensibly) the identical. They’ve that premium-looking cable-up type issue and are geared up with the identical sized 7mm “extra-wide band” transducers. Sennheiser claims these supply “beautifully balanced and sensible audio” and a “pure frequency response curve usually present in earphones costing considerably extra.”

Different options embrace a collection of each foam and silicone ear ideas that may be mounted in certainly one of two positions to seek out the correct match for you and removable cables for when the wires inevitably put on out over time. As What Hello-Fi? notes, there doesn’t look like any signal of an in-line distant on their cable, probably as a result of these have a repute for harming sound high quality on wired headphones. 

“With balanced, true-to-life audio copy, customers will be capable to hear the main points that they’ve been lacking in bizarre headphones,” says Sennheiser audiophile product supervisor Jermo Koehnke.

Sennheiser’s IE 200 headphones go on sale on January thirty first.