Outlaw Headphones?!

I'm a headphone guy and have been for 30 years. Anyone walking into this saloon knows that Outlaw as a company can develop and provide cost-effective/high value electronics (receivers, pre-pros,amps), speakers/subs, cables. Why not a good/great series of headphones?
If Outlaw makes a headphone I would buy 'em and try 'em- how is that for market analysis?!

I'm basically a Sennheiser guy starting with their HD-450, then the HD-580 and now the HD-650. I did get Grado's well regarded SR60 phones the same year that Stereophile picked them as budget component of the year. To me they sounded good and felt bad!
No ear buds will get my vote, since I've been underwhelmed with Shure's $100 entry model; and now the Skullcandy 11mm driver phones can be had for $15 and they sound like an AM clock radio playing MP3's. No profit margin and no resemblance to high-end sound- IMHO.

As a Maggie owner/lover, I am very intrigued by Audizee's planar phones. Has anyone heard them???

I'd like an over the ear, open design and whether Outlaw designs a driver based, an electrostatic, or a planar based headphone...I'll buy a pair!


I always prefer a headphone amp and started with Audio Alchemy's little headphone amp. Then at the '97 Stereophile show in San Fran, I bought the unstackable Musical Fidelity X-cans, which I still use and like.
There is my two cents worth, but I'll pay a lot more than that for some Outlaw headphones. I trust you guys in spite of your name!

KJMAN

I see some discussion on the "new products" and I would also like to see a headphone amp from the Outlaws!

Prettty crowded field and populated with a weird mix of tube based and/or external DAC units to facilitate the trend du jour of "extracting a musical" sound from iPod...

I just want new PrePro !

Keep in mind that Outlaw typically doesn't produce equipment. They design equipment for others to build and then sell it without the big box store. I am not sure they could design a headphone that economically competes with the others out there. As a point of curiousity can you tell me if headphone cables are similar to speaker and interconnect cable as far as the superior claims for the various materials they are made of.

RE: Headphone "upgrade" cables. As a Sennheiser man, I did try the Cardas cable sold specifically as an upgrade for several models, including mine. I tell you the honest truth...I did not hear any difference at all from the factory cable. Not only did I not hear any difference, good or bad, the Cardas cable started shorting out (Rt ear)after 6-8 weeks. They politely sent me another one when I returned the defective product. The 2nd one also shorted out within a month, but at the other end where it plugged into my amp. This time, they just sent me a new 3rd cable and didn't even ask for the 2nd one back. Meanwhile, I ordered another Sennheiser factory cable for $29, instead of the $229 or whatever it was I paid for the Cardas. I get 5 years of good service from the factory cords.

I'm not jogging with these either, as it was my bedroom system consisting of a Marantz CC4001 5-disc changer, into a Musical Fidelity X-24 DAC, then into my Musical Fidleity X-Cans then the Cardas cable to my 580's and 650's.
So to answer your question, it pains me as a "true believer" in cable making a difference; I can't say that the Cardas cable "upgrade" did any good at all for me. All I can say is 3 Cardas "upgrade" cables, no sonic or other benefits- they had sighted 'durability' in their ad, but that certainly wasn't my experience!
KJMAN