Hard to say that design is Sennheiser's strength. Their pop-up stores in NY an SF were all kinds of creepy. (H/T Godwin)

The morbid overtones of the granite chassis may be part of the design language, intentional or not.

I was thinking the same thing.

I showed the "new flagship" to my wife. Her first comment was "wait, I thought this was headphones, where are the --oh, in that box?" Then she was silent for a bit and said "It looks like the 70's, or like they want it to look like what people in the 70's thought was 'the future!' ... are there guys in leisure suits somewhere?"

Whelp. Hopefully they show it off at CES in January.

I wonder how people who sold their Orpheus off to get one of these feels now...

ding ding ding! my favorite part about the whole forced opulence is that the only people who stand a chance at being impressed by this will already know how outrageously expensive it is, because they are headphone geeks. Everyone else is going to think its a marble wrapped humidor until they lift the lid, see headphones, and ask "wtf?"