Klipsch Heritage HP3

Klipsch headgear covering every niche from sporting earbud to luxury home headphone. 

Klipsch headphone may be designed to look like an oldie, but it’s a 21st century Goldie inside.

The HP-3 design bears Klipsch’s ‘Heritage’ tag, which has been used for a range of products that hark back in exterior design to the golden age of radio and the very earliest days of audio equipment, and the HP3s continue those design cues with deep bronze highlights, real hand-sanded wood head-shells.
In the same way that a company like Grado maintains modern design that includes heritage from earlier days. For good measure the Klipsch packaging is thoroughly ‘Heritaged’ with a luxurious solid wooden inner box of sliding compartments, and its generous inclusion in a lower drawer of a black steel-rod stand (pictured) on which your headgear can proudly perch.

The HP3’s sensitivity is achieved by coupling oversized (52mm) ‘biodynamic’ drivers together with enough magnetic power to deliver more than one tesla of flux density. ‘Biodynamic’ appears to refer to the material used for the driver, this being “a proprietary mixture of biocellulose and inorganic fiber”, while surrounds of urethane rubber grant the driver still further rigidity in what Klipsch calls a ‘Free Edge’ design, something we’ve seen previously on Denon designs.

SPECS Klipsch Heritage HP3  

Type: semi-open, over-ear, dynamic
 Driver: 52mm Biodynamic Free Edge
Impedance: 25 ohms
Sensitivity: 98dB (1mW)
Quoted frequency response: 5Hz-45kHz
Wood options: Ebony (reviewed), Walnut, Oak
Weight: 440g
Dimensions (whd): 200 x 260 x 50mm