As entertainment goes hi-tech and audiences look for nuance (the exact shade of blue in a blazer or the most natural sound from a guitar), device manufacturers are paying greater attention to detail. And the focus on product engineering and design is growing. Here's a selection of luxury products in the home entertainment space that make your music and movies come alive within the comfortable confines of your room
Speakers
California Audio TechnologY MBX Yosemite Speaker
California Audio Technology is known for its custom-made designs, and manufactures speakers of all sizes, shapes, colours and material (from stainless steel and concrete to marble and granite). Its Yosemite speakers are among the costliest in the Indian market; it has separate amplifiers for each woofer that give out a pulsating sound, and has 5.5-inch aluminium drivers that further refine the sound output. A real boom box, this.
Price: Rs 2.5 crore (a pair)
Headphones
Sennheiser HD 800 – Dynamic Stereo Headphones
They incorporate Sennheiser’s most advanced driver technology that redefines reference-level (85-105 decibels) audio, and is almost a sound system fitted in the ears—the kind you read about in William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels where technology is permanently embedded in the bodies of characters.
Price: Rs 95,000
(This story appears in the 14 November, 2014 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)