The Composer is a premium reference headphone designed for connoisseurs and professionals to hear their music in its finest form.
These headphones deliver spacious yet precise high frequencies and faithful and swift bass impulses at remarkably low THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) levels, ensuring an incredibly revealing listening journey that sets new standards in high-end listening.
The adjustable headband employs a mesh material to release heat and avoid perspiration, and the design weighs in at under 400 grams. Tiltable earcups enable four positions to help achieve a flawless fit. The cables attach directly to the headband to protect the ears from undue strain.
Made in Austria
Best in combination with the Austrian Audio Full Score one headphone amplifier.
Key Features
New Hi-X Driver Design
New 49mm driver design featuring a diaphragm coated with diamond-like carbon.
3x Detachable Cable
1x balanced 4pin XLR 3 m, 1x balanced 4.4 mm Pentaconn 3 m, 1x 3.5 mm Jack 3 m including 6.3 mm adapter
Fully Servicable Product
This product can be fully serviced.
Banana Jack connector
Nonproprietary Banana Jack connector on headphone
Adjustable and tiltable Earcups
Adjustable and tiltable Earcups - easily replaceable due to magnetic connection
Made in Austria
Engineered and manufactured in Vienna / Austria.
Reviews
There is no denying that The Composer are excellent headphones for the money. They manage to deliver a combination of naturalness and resolution that is deeply impressive. Add excellent build and superb engineering into the equation and they become easy to recommend for those that are lucky enough to shop at this level.
What Hi-Fi!
The Austrian Audio ‘The Composer’ is an impressive high-end set of dynamic drive headphones tuned with a reference-like focus on clarity and resolution.
Headfonics
They can retain and reveal an extraordinary amount of detail and are just as attentive to the transient, fleeting elements of a recording as they are the broad stroke.
techradar
It can take the listener deep into both performance and recording, and provides a compelling experience that’s as rewarding as it is intriguing, always revealing something new even in familiar tracks.
Sound Advice
Hi-X49 DLC
New driver design
The Composer incorporates Austrian Audio’s award-winning Hi-X technology, but with a new 49mm driver design: The Hi-X49 DLC, featuring a diaphragm coated with diamond-like carbon for exceptional rigidity and an authentic listening experience at all loudness levels.
