Onkyo adds 20 carat diamonds to its H900M headphones

Our sister brand Stuff was given an exclusive preview in a top-secret vault well away from prying eyes where the diamond-encrusted headphones are being kept under lock and key.

The earcups decorated with a highly polished stainless steel ring and aluminium plate hand-studded with 20ct of top-clarity diamonds.

And just in case that wasn't enough for you, the right earcups are denoted by an additional red ring of rubies.

Each earcup of the headphones is studded with diamonds

Each earcup of the headphones is studded with diamonds

There's a hand-crafted white headband in soft leather, and naturally you wouldn't expect them to be mass produced. Oh no. These are strictly 'made to order' and take weeks to decorate.

Onkyo is also showing off a similarly decorated pair of W800BT in-ear headphones, although if they were ours we'd be a bit nervous about taking them out and about with us.

Now obviously this level of craftmanship doesn't come cheap. There's no word on the pricing yet for the W800BTs, but the diamond/ruby H900Ms will cost upwards of €80,000 (£68,500), depending on the exact specification of the jewels.

The in-ear, diamond-studded W800BTs come in a lavish presentation box

The in-ear, diamond-studded W800BTs come in a lavish presentation box

Onkyo isn't the only headphone company to come up with a bejewelled pair of cans here at CES. French hi-fi specialist Focal has also unveiled its Utopia Tournaire jewel-encrusted design which it is claiming is "the most expensive pair of headphones in the world". At $120,000, with a bespoke stand costing an additional $12,000, we can hardly disagree.

You can read about the Focal Utopia Tournaire here.

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Andy Clough

Andy is Global Brand Director of What Hi-Fi? and has been a technology journalist for 30 years. During that time he has covered everything from VHS and Betamax, MiniDisc and DCC to CDi, Laserdisc and 3D TV, and any number of other formats that have come and gone. He loves nothing better than a good old format war. Andy edited several hi-fi and home cinema magazines before relaunching whathifi.com in 2008 and helping turn it into the global success it is today. When not listening to music or watching TV, he spends far too much of his time reading about cars he can't afford to buy.

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