Sennheiser at Recording Week 2026: Get accurate low-end and supreme comfort for professional recording and monitoring with Sennheiser's HD 480 PRO closed-back headphones

RECORDING WEEK 2026: Welcome to HD 480 PRO – Sennheiser’s top-of-the-range closed-back headphones, designed with the utmost care and precision to make them perfect for any and all studio and live environments.

The HD 480 PRO eliminate the two most-cited pain points of closed-back headphones by delivering a tight, accurate bass and ensuring supreme comfort for audio professionals tasked with recording, tracking, or monitoring in the studio, in live audio environments or on the move.

With closed-back headphones, a good reproduction of the low-end is usually difficult to achieve, but this is where the HD 480 PRO excel: Simply put, they are a lot tighter on the bass than other closed-back headphones, with an accurate and realistic low-end.

Comfort is of paramount importance when headphones are a work tool, as engineers often spend hours on end in their sessions. They need a lightweight, ergonomically designed pair of headphones to keep focus and concentration up. HD 480 PRO eliminate any pressure points and fit every head precisely and comfortably – even if users are wearing glasses.

Whether used in the studio by producers, mixers, musicians, recording engineers, and creators, in live environments by FoH engineers and monitor engineers, or again on the move, the HD 480 PRO are an ideal choice for monitoring, producing, and recording, but also for mixing, which makes them Sennheiser’s most versatile professional headphones to date.

Their absolute accuracy, uncoloured frequency response and honest low-end ensure that the audio translates reliably to any listening situation from home speakers to automobile use and PA systems.

To enable the user to fully concentrate on the audio and hear all detail, the HD 480 PRO feature multiple stages of passive sound shielding, while comfortable ear pads with soft grooves for the temples of glasses ensure the precise seal that is required for good audio reproduction.

A series of design measures – grouped under Sennheiser's “Vibration Attenuation System” tech – eliminate unwanted vibration, reflections and distortion, preserving the clarity of the signal. The ultralight voice coils of the HD 480 PRO ensure a remarkably authentic and dynamic reproduction.

And like its open-back counterpart, the HD 490 PRO, the HD 480 PRO benefits from several Sennheiser-patented features:

Special Axes Geometry: The mechanical design makes sure that the headphones optimally adapt to the head and maintain an equal contact pressure no matter what the shape of the user’s head. The listening experience is consistent across users.

Comfort zone for glasses: The ear pads do not press on the temples of glasses but rather have a soft zone, which ensures good sealing and high comfort at the same time.

To adapt to different set-ups, the detachable cable can be worn on the left or right side of the HD 480 PRO. This flexible cable routing is ideal for solo recording of instruments, for example, as it keeps the cable out of the way.

And to ensure accessibility, the left and right earcups are braille-marked.

Engineered by Sennheiser’s experienced professional development team, the HD 480 PRO have been designed to last and deliver consistent results over time.

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