Ear Candy: Ultrasone Edition 9 Headphones
The philosophy behind these handmade, über-engineered German headphones seems counterintuitive: Go for the bank shot instead of the swish. Rather than blasting concentrated tunes straight to your ear canal like every other high-priced headphone or earbud, these luxurious jam-cans marshal an indirect assault — their decentralized, featherweight Mylar drivers shoot sound at the pinna, the cartilage of the outer ear that collects sound out in the real world. Taking advantage of our morphology, the Edition 9s allow for greater audio depth perception, laying down every nuance of an artful mix. And they don't just sound amazing. Between the Sith-black chrome cups and — get ready for it — Ethiopian sheepskin padding, these pimped-out 'phones look hotter than a stolen Ferrari. The same type of mu-metal shielding that NASA has been using for decades to guard a spacecraft's sensors from interference (yes way) blocks nearly all of the low-frequency electromagnetic radiation generated by the headphones themselves — you know, just in case that turns out to be harmful. Now, if only those clever Germans would invent a way to make them affordable.
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