Sixty years is a milestone value celebrating – which is strictly what Audio Technica is doing with its latest set of wi-fi headphones. The ATH-WB2022 has been given the total picket enclosure therapy, reserved for the very best of the Japanese agency’s high-end fashions.
It joins the revived Sound Burger transportable file participant and limited-run AT-MC2022 stylus cartridge as the newest in a line of birthday exclusives.
Audio Technica’s mix of strong flame maple, walnut, and mahogany woods is seemingly nice for absorbing undesirable vibrations, letting the newly-designed 45mm drivers ship ‘studio-level sound high quality’, whereas the alcantara-wrapped ear cups and headband present a luxuriously cozy match.
It doesn’t skimp on helpful extras like on-ear buttons for music and quantity controls, muting the built-in microphone (useful for voice calls) and waking your telephone’s voice assistant.
There’s rather a lot happening beneath, together with an ESS ES9038Q2M DAC and separate battery powering every channel, for a totally unbiased left-right steadiness that isn’t affected by cross discuss. They’ll play 24-bit/96kHz wirelessly utilizing the LDAC Bluetooth codec, or wired over USB. The latter allows you to hold listening even as soon as the batteries have run flat. Moveable listening must be good for as much as 9 hours.
These ultra-exclusive over-ears will set you again a considerable £2600/€3000/$2700 after they go on sale early subsequent yr, direct from the Audio Technica web site. Solely a restricted quantity will go into manufacturing, and Audio Technica isn’t saying precisely what number of will discover properties, so if you happen to’re eager you would possibly wish to break the bank card out early.
That type of scratch doesn’t simply purchase the headphones, both: every pair comes with a rugged case designed with assist from Zero Halliburton, the corporate trusted to make Apollo 11’s lunar baggage for bringing moon rocks again to earth.
