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Were the AKG1000 this popular when they were still in production?

post #1 of 85
2/21/07 at 5:32pm
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If not, why??
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post #2 of 85
2/21/07 at 5:38pm
Obviously not or they would still be in production.

I think it's a Head-Fi thing.

I just bought a pair here and they were supposed to ship yesterday.

Gene
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post #3 of 85
2/21/07 at 5:39pm
Nope. In fact, at the end of the production run, Todd dropped the price to $399 to clear out his stock.
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post #4 of 85
2/21/07 at 5:55pm
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Obviously not or they would still be in production.
I thought that the very reason they were discontinued is because they started competing with the flagship K701... am I wrong?
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post #5 of 85
2/21/07 at 6:24pm
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I thought that the very reason they were discontinued is because they started competing with the flagship K701... am I wrong?
Yes.
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post #6 of 85
2/21/07 at 6:31pm
They still aren't all that popular, sure you see quite a few threads/posts about them now but thats just the normal ebb and flow of head-fi more than anything else.
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post #7 of 85
2/21/07 at 6:33pm
i thought they were discontinued because the machinery used in their production broke down...?

i don't have any sources for that, i just remember a thread about that somewhere... maybe i'm mixing them up with the K340
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post #8 of 85
2/21/07 at 6:38pm
AKG could've re-invested in the machinery, but since they weren't selling enough, there was no point in re-investing.
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post #9 of 85
2/21/07 at 6:47pm
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Nope. In fact, at the end of the production run, Todd dropped the price to $399 to clear out his stock.
no, i think that was earlier cause i bought from todd..his last 2 pairs in fact and they were not 399 by any stretch of the imagination.
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post #10 of 85
2/21/07 at 7:37pm
This has been discussed on http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=220567
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post #11 of 85
2/21/07 at 7:51pm
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Right you are.

I would go mostly with this argument:

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I wonder if one of the reasons why it lost popularity was how hard it is to drive.
It took me now at least 3 years to find an amp able to drive them the way I like (CEC AMP 53).

In addition I learnt that they had some quality problems.
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post #12 of 85
2/21/07 at 7:54pm
but they are easy to drive. you can just use a speaker amp which more much more common than headphone amps.
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post #13 of 85
2/21/07 at 9:01pm
My K1K has been popular with me before and after production stopped. However, the accumulated knowledge base about how to make K1000 sound great has grown quite a bit since I've owned mine, and quite a few people are now achieving close to what K1K are actually capable of. This is leading to more favorable comparisons to REAlly expensive competition, which is spawning even more interest in the K1K.
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post #14 of 85
2/21/07 at 9:05pm
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It took me now at least 3 years to find an amp able to drive them the way I like (CEC AMP 53).

that doesn't make them "hard to drive"; that makes you picky!
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post #15 of 85
2/21/07 at 9:31pm
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but they are easy to drive. you can just use a speaker amp which more much more common than headphone amps.
The fact that the K1000's need a speaker amp for power makes them easier to drive? How does that make sense? Sure, maybe speaker amplifiers are just as easy or easier to come by than headphone amplifiers, but what does that have to do with the power required to drive the K1000's?
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