Hermès Headphones Priced at $15,000: Are You Listening to Music or Dreams?
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Editor's Pick: In this era where "anything can be luxurious," luxury brands always find new ways to test the limits of your wallet. Case in point: Hermès (yes, the same one that sells those bags) has suddenly decided to enter the headphone market with a pair of over-ear headphones priced at a staggering $15,000.
Yes, you read that right, not a single zero missing. This isn't an Hermès dog leash—it's headphones, actual headphones, meant for listening to music—presumably.
Sound quality? Let's not talk about sound quality yet
Reportedly, these headphones draw inspiration from Hermès' iconic Kelly bag and are handcrafted at the Ateliers Hermès Horizons workshop near Paris. Wrapped in calfskin with metal details so exquisite they could reflect the anxiety in your bank account balance, the ear cushions even feature fine stitching on the inside, as if to say: "You're not just hearing sound, you're hearing status."
But the question remains: how's the sound quality?
Well... Hermès doesn't emphasize that much. You think these are headphones, but they say it's a "mobile art installation + audio experience unit + social status amplifier."
Bluetooth? Yes. Wired option? Sure. Noise cancellation? Perhaps, but you're not wearing these in public for quiet—you're wearing them to be seen. They don't cancel the noise of the world; they cancel the world's poverty and amplify your "uniqueness."
Color options matter more than sound quality
The color selection is luxury to the core: natural, chocolate brown, burgundy, classic black, and a touch of Prussian blue—just hearing the names sounds expensive. Not sure about you, but this is the first time I've seen headphone marketing where "sound quality" ranks after "leather type" and "stitching details."
These headphones aren't designed for "audiophiles," they're for "wallet-philes." While you're looking for balanced frequencies, they're looking for imbalanced bank accounts. They're not meant to pair with your phone, but with your Rolex and private jet.
In this day and age, the mission of headphones has shifted from "letting you hear more" to "letting others see more." Hermès' headphones perfectly embody the ultimate level of "even listening to music requires Chanel."
As for the $15,000 price tag... regular folks like us should probably stick with our AirPods Max and listen to songs about "things we can't reach."
