Audio-Technica’s new audiophile open-back headphones hit a sub-$1,000 price

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Audio-Technica (A-T) says its caller ATH-ADX3000 open-back headphones usage nan aforesaid driver exertion recovered successful its flagship $1,999 ATH-ADX5000 model, but they person a acold little price. The ATH-ADX3000 are disposable for $999, starting October 24.

A-T says that nan ATH-ADX3000 Open-Air Dynamic Headphones bring existent high-end sound value and natural, freely audio acknowledgment to nan company’s astir precocious driver technology.

Audio-Technica ATH-ADX3000 Open-Air Dynamic Headphones.

The halfway of nan ADX3000 are a group of massive, 58mm tungsten-coated diaphragms pinch a axenic robust magnetic circuit, sound coil, and aluminum housing. All 4 elements are mixed successful a azygous integrated driver unit. The diaphragm is highly lightweight and responsive, according to A-T, and nan axenic robust magnet enables exceptional move scope and precocious efficiency. The institution promises that this driver — which was designed by in-house engineers and manufactured and hand-assembled successful Audio-Technica’s Machida, Japan mill — creates an optimum building that offers superb clarity and stereo imaging, pinch articulate bass, a soft midrange, and detailed, extended precocious frequencies.

A-T’s Core Mount Technology is utilized to position nan driver’s sound coil successful nan mediate of its housing. This ensures that nan acoustic abstraction is balanced successful some nan beforehand and nan backmost of nan driver. “Our engineers worked difficult to execute a wave consequence that is not easy to get by utilizing only earthy aerial flow,” Audio-Technica lead technologist Hiromichi Ozawa said successful a property release. “Our expertise successful driver exertion influenced our attack to open-back headphones, and enabled america to guarantee that nan driver diaphragm moves pinch nan purest mobility possible.”

The claimed wave consequence successful mobility is an awesome 5Hz-45kHz, which goes moreover beyond nan requirements of nan Japan Audio Society’s hi-res audio certification. With a 50-ohm impedance, nan ADX3000 should beryllium easy to drive, moreover without a dedicated headphone amp. Maximum input powerfulness is pegged astatine 700 milliwatts, and A-T says nan sensitivity is 98 dB/mW.

With a framework made from magnesium alloy and weighing conscionable 9.8 ounces, nan ADX3000 are very light. They travel pinch a detachable, 9.8-foot cablegram pinch A-T’s proprietary A2DC connectors astatine nan headphones extremity and a 1/4-inch gold-plated stereo plug for root devices. Both nan cans and cablegram get wrong an aluminum retention and recreation case, which should connection fantabulous protection for your investment.