Audio-Technica’s hand-crafted 50th anniversary headphones are a a serious audio celebration

Audio-Technica has been making headphones for 50 years, and to people nan anniversary, nan patient has created a brace of headphones that'll make immoderate audiophile drool. The caller Audio-Technica ATH-ADX3000 person been hand-crafted successful Tokyo arsenic "a testament to Audio-Technica's six decades of audio innovation", according to nan company.

The open-back headphones are very ray astatine conscionable 257g, and they're based astir nan aforesaid Core Mount exertion that first appeared successful nan ATH-ADX5000 open-air move headphones. Core Mount integrates nan driver straight into nan baffle, which A-T says improves some airflow and full-range audio reproduction.

Audio-Technica ATH-ADX3000: pricing and availability

The caller Audio-Technica ATH-ADX3000 headphones are disposable now pinch a value tag of £859 / €999 / $999.

That's importantly little than nan ATH-ADX5000, and it intends you tin get nan aforesaid benignant of reference-quality audio acquisition for astir half nan cash; fixed nan glowing reviews nan 5000s person attracted, that intends these headphones could beryllium thing rather special, and a superior contender for our database of nan best wired headphones.

As for Audio-Technica, nan patient says that while it's celebrating 50 years of headphones, it's excited astir nan early – particularly pinch nan resurgence of vinyl and high-quality location audio setups. According to Kazuo Matsushita, Audio-Technica's president, “Since 1974, we person developed various technologies to bespeak nan changes successful nan marketplace – from nan take of smartphones to nan description of location studios – however, we person ever remained existent to our analogue core, arsenic we still commencement each process successful our HQ pinch a transducer. I look guardant to nan adjacent 50 years of bringing value audio to all.”

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