Philips SHP9600
The SHP9500's warmer sequel: the comfort and the big stage survived, and the arguments moved to its upper mids — and its hinges.
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Philips
Consumer electronics; the Fidelio audio line
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Philips (Koninklijke Philips N.V.) is a Dutch technology company founded in 1891 in Eindhoven and now headquartered in Amsterdam, today focused largely on health technology. Its consumer-audio range — including the premium Fidelio line, home of the X2HR open-back headphones — has for years been produced under brand licence by partner companies rather than by Philips directly.
- Founded
- 1891
- Based in
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Philips Fidelio X2HR
The cheap open-back with a huge stage and a treble nobody can agree on — now discontinued, and still arguing.
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Philips SHP9500
The comfort king of budget open-backs, measured eight ways and argued over for a decade: airy and honest, or thin, bright and grainy.
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