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there are some wrinkles on the lower pad. but if you say they're new then... ;)

yeah I was asking about their price at that store. 

 

great picture btw! 

I expect sitting in the box for such a long period of time has made those wrinkles, excellent find!

Thanks.

 

As I sad, I'm the first owner of this K1k.

It was standing for years, maybe it was not put properly into it's box and the foam pushed te pads.(?)  It was 'standing' on the lower pad in the box. The foam is not straight in the box, on the end it's round, and there the tips touch the foam.

 

I bought for reather good price, i paied ~$1000.

 

 

Edit: I read that there are bass light and heavy versions. How can I distinguish them?

Serial number seems to be the most usual way.

I'd say below 5000 tend to be Bass Heavy and above Bass light. There may be exceptions and the 5000 number might not be smack bang on the money but i think it's pretty close. People tend to assume the dark wood box as the older versions and the lighter box with newer.

 

My old pair had a dark box and were 46XX i think and were Bass Heavy

Thanks, so my one with 9114 is bass light.

 

Ps.: I've uploaded my pictures here as well.

Very nice find indeed, congrats.

The wrinkles are made from the way the headphones are stored in the box. The foam cut-out is very snug, hence you only see wrinkles on one side of the pads; the side that grooves the foam. I don't store the headphones in the box anymore because the cut-out is very tight.

#04493 here (with a black box). Connected to my Jolida 1501RC.

 

Yes, it has to be that.

e.g.: These pairs have wrinkles on the same place.

Have somebody here had an issue with vibrations come from grids (probably)? On my WA5 up to 10 o'clock is everything fine. Any suggestions? I suspect frame is not appropriate covered by adhesive.

 

Thank you.

Yep i had that after a recable, only on big bass notes but the frames would rattle. I found if i pinched them in a certain place the rattle would stop. Eventually stripped then down and re glued and they were fine after that

With very deep bass along with loud volume I noticed some rattle as well but it got fixed magically when I opened up the grills and reinstalled them (no adhesive).

Thank you very much for your info.

 

Exactly, when I pitched them the rattle is gone.

 

BTW - is it worth to recable it? 

 

Only water soluble adhesive can be used?

 

 

Thank you.

Hmmm I don't know, I had the equinox and it was expensive but there was an improvement in clarity if I remember right. The biggest improvement was going grill less but it isn't really viable so I ended up putting them back on. If you are completely happy with your amp and source and they are high quality and revealing go for the reachable. If you have a warm system I probably wouldn't bother.