LUXURY

If you're ready to push on into four figures with your next headphone purchase, send your butler down to the shops with instructions to snaffle up one of these

AUSTRIAN AUDIO THE COMPOSER

No area of the headphones market, it would seem, is off-limits to Austrian Audio. The company hasn't even been around for a decade yet, but since its inception (naturally enough in Vienna), it's proved that age is just a number.

Until now, though, its products have been aimed at the mainstream.

But these phones are different.

With The Composer, it wants to take the fight to the big names who might have thought they'd sewn up the 'luxury' market before Austrian Audio was even a thing.

As you'd expect at the price, these are beautifully built and finished from premium materials, and are so carefully constructed that they remain comfortable for hours on end. All the contact points feel as good as they look, and the attention to detail - from the discreet branding to the flexibility of the earcups - is quite impeccable.