Sennheiser HD-490-PRO, Professional Reference Open-Back Studio Headphones

The Sennheiser HD-490-PRO, Professional Reference Open-Back Studio Headphones is providing musicians, producers, engineers, and content creators with an open-backed headphone monitoring solution that's ready for today's workflows. Everyday mixes now routinely demand massive computing power, surgically precise parameter automation, and dramatically enhanced audio resolutions. With this increased creative horsepower comes increased complexity and the potential for audio blind spots like crowded, muddy mixes with competing frequencies making your choice of headphones critical. The HD 490 PRO advanced headphones are designed to capture all the subtleties that could make or break your mix, ensuring your work sounds as good to listeners in the real world as it does in your production studio.

This HD-490 PRO Plus edition is identical in design and performance to the HD-490 PRO model, but in addition to the 5.9' cable, producing ear pads, and mixing ear pads, it also includes a 9.8' cable, additional headband pad, and semihard travel case.

The Perfect Mix of Clarity, Comfort, and Reliability

Harnessing decades of Sennheiser engineering expertise, HD 490 PRO headphones are equipped to handle all the complexities of today’s music production, mixing, and mastering. Featuring an open-back design that delivers an extremely wide, dimensional sound stage and ultra-precise sound reproduction, HD 490 PRO gives you the clarity needed for your most critical decisions.

Full Spectrum Audio Accuracy

You will achieve enhanced clarity and balance in your masters with Sennheiser's innovative Open-frame Architecture, which delivers a comprehensive, precise, and intelligibly defined audio experience. This advancement significantly aids in the identification and resolution of issues related to panning placement and conflicting frequencies, ensuring a more refined final master.

Eliminate the Blind Spots in Your Productions

At the core of each HD 490 PRO earcup is a state-of-the-art neodymium magnet and an innovative low-frequency cylinder. These components synchronize and work together to deliver full, accurate, and clearly defined bass, helping you pinpoint and resolve troublesome low-end frequencies that can hinder the achievement of meticulously clear mixes and masters.

The Most Comfortable Headphones in Pro Audio

HD 490 PRO lets you feel the music and forget about the headphones. With a lightweight, flexible yet sturdy design, HD 490 PRO’s precision-engineered ergonomics eliminate pressure points while the open-back design provides natural ventilation, making hours in the music feel like minutes.

Game Changing Innovation with Switchable, Washable Ear Pads

HD 490 PRO headphones come with two sets of switchable ear pads, each with a unique sound signature for long hours of mixing and producing. Sennheiser’s proprietary ear pad technology also helps eliminate ear fatigue while keeping sustainability and durability in mind — they’re both washable and replaceable.

Experience the Sennheiser Difference

Your mixing decisions are the backbone to your music productions. Sennheiser’s trusted heritage of delivering audio excellence, quality design, innovation, and rigorous manufacturing protocols are all behind the HD 490 PRO headphones, helping you to achieve your full creative vision. From state-of-the-art components to first-to-market headphone innovations, HD 490 PRO are the perfect mix of clarity, comfort, and reliability.

Features at a glance...

Backed by decades of Sennheiser engineering, technology, research and development.

Open-back design with an extremely wide, dimensional sound stage and ultra-precise localization.

Uncolored frequency response for honest, dynamic sound reproduction across the full spectrum.

Innovative low-frequency cylinder system for full, accurate, and clearly defined low end.

Precision-engineered ergonomics eliminate pressure points and deliver supreme, flexible, lightweight comfort.

Product Specifications:

Wearing Style: Dual Ear with Headband

Foldable: No

Earpiece Swivel: Yes

Earpiece Design: Over-Ear (Circumaural)

Open/Closed-Back: Open-Back

Sound Field: Stereo

Driver Type: Dynamic

Driver Size: 1.5" / 38 mm

Impedance: 130 Ohms

Active Noise Cancellation: No

Frequency Response: 5 Hz to 36 kHz

Sensitivity:

105 dB SPL at 1 kHz / 1 Vrms

96 dB SPL at 1 kHz / 1 mW

Maximum Sound Pressure Level (SPL): 128 dB at 1 kHz

Maximum Power Handling: 300 mW

Volume Limiting / Child-Safe: No

Built-In Controls: No

Microphone:

Built-In Mic: No

Connectivity:

Audio Connector: 1x 1/8" / 3.5 mm TRS

Included Adapter: 1/4" TRS

Connector Plating: Gold

Cable Design: Detachable / Straight with Relief Coil

Cable Length:

5.9' / 1.8 m

9.8' / 3 m

Physical:

Color: Black

Environmental Resistance: No

Weight: 9.2 oz / 260 g (without Cable)

Shipping Weight: 2.48 lbs.

Shipping Dimensions: 10.7 x 9.4 x 4"