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HIGH END CHOICE Audio-technica ATH-ADX5000 £1,990 Whatever way you justify spending almost £2,000 on this pair of Audio-technica headphones (above) you won’t be disappointed: you could argue that it’s £2.70 a day for two years; or it’s half the price of the new hi-fi you really need; or you’ve saved a fortune since paying for a streaming service rather than buying CDS. Made from magnesium and glass fibre, the ATH-ADX5000S are astonishingly light (270g) for a huge pair of 58mm openbacked dynamic headphones, which is just as well as you’re not going to want to take them off.
The combination of a light frame and rigid integrated speaker design, with a tungsten-coated diaphragm, helps create a truly epic sense of space. Balanced, nuanced and scarily realistic, the sensory experience of listening to, say, Teodor Currentzis and Musicaeterna’s f lawless hi-resolution recording of Tchaikovsy’s Sixth Symphony is as beautiful as it is awesome – the individual instrumentation is perfectly separated and every detail is audible. All things considered, the ATH-ADX5000 is justifiably expensive. eu.audio-technica.com