Sony is celebrating its 70th anniversary, and it's doing it up right. According to Wikipedia, a 70th anniversary is technically a "platinum" anniversary, but Sony's really exploring all the metals in this lavish new MDR-Z1R "Signature Series" pair of $2,300 headphones. There's the 70mm magnesium dome driver, an aluminum-coated diaphragm, neodymium magnets, and the headband is made out of beta titanium. Naturally, the jack is gold plated.
The precise internals give these headphones a frequency response all the way up to 120kHz, which is an impressive number but humans don't usually hear beyond 20kHz so it's not the most useful number ever. In fact, from the spec sheet the best indicator of exactly how good the Z1R might sound is the...
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