You Can Hear the Quality invites sound lovers to participate in Europe’s biggest SOUNDCHECK 2013

Wedemark, 2 September 2013 – For almost 70 years, Sennheiser has stood for excellently crafted audio solutions. The audio specialist tests its products rigorously to ensure flawless quality and is now inviting everyone else to do so too by sampling its MOMENTUM headphones in Europe’s biggest SOUNDCHECK.

Precise workmanship, expertise in transducer technology and excellent quality throughout – for nearly seven decades Sennheiser products have epitomised these values. On 2 September, the audio specialist is launching Europe’s biggest SOUNDCHECK 2013, a 100-day campaign which invites music lovers to experience the substance and performance of its acclaimed MOMENTUM range.

Promotion teams will ask passers-by in European cities including Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels to try the MOMENTUM headphone range, which have been designed to seamlessly bring together high-quality materials, flawless sound and uncompromising style. Music lovers are invited to sample the MOMENTUM either at any of the promotional stands or at their local headphone dealer and to write a short review on sennheiser.com/soundcheck, which will showcase user’s views and responses to the headphones from throughout the campaign.

A focus on excellent quality at the heart of Sennheiser’s heritage To meet customers’ high expectations of the Sennheiser brand and to comply with its own exacting standards, Sennheiser has always placed a very high priority on product quality. Nearly 250 employees at R&D locations in , Denmark, the USA and Singapore, as well as quality planners and system testers located at the company’s head office ensure excellent quality during all development and production stages. Sennheiser headphones are manufactured using only the best materials, such as the stainless steel and leather used in the over- ear version of the MOMENTUM. Before products are brought to market, they are subject to a range of tests including drop tests and bending tests. By checking all product components, Sennheiser not only ensures compliance with international standards, but also fulfils its own far more exacting quality benchmarks. Wolfgang Tschee, Manager Quality Laboratories at Sennheiser, comments: “Every test we carry out on our headphones ensures that we maintain these high standards: to only bring products to market which stand for extraordinary sound and product quality in their respective segments.” By setting up Europe’s biggest SOUNDCHECK 2013, Sennheiser is letting everyone try out its MOMENTUM headphones and hear for themselves.

The Sennheiser Group, with its headquarters in near , Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. In 2012 the family company, which was founded in 1945, achieved a turnover of around 584 million euros. Sennheiser employs more than 2,300 people worldwide, and has manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland and the USA. The company is represented worldwide by subsidiaries in France, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Germany, Denmark (Nordic), Russia, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Japan, China, Canada, Mexico, the USA and now Australia and New Zealand, as well as by long-term trading partners in many other countries. Also part of the Sennheiser Group are Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin (studio microphones and monitor loudspeakers) and the joint venture Sennheiser Communications A/S (headsets for PCs, offices and call centres).

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Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG Mareike Oer Global PR Manager Consumer Electronics Tel: +49 (0) 5130 / 600 719 Email: [email protected]

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MOMENTUM Brown.jpg: Music lovers are invited to test Sennheiser’s MOMENTUM range. Europe’s biggest SOUNDCHECK 2013.jpg: Reviews on the MOMENTUM will be collected and shared on sennheiser.com/soundcheck

Production and Technology Centre.jpg: Sennheiser’s Production and Technology Centre at the head office in Wedemark, Germany.