Silver AKG k141 ?! (pictures included)

Colour me jealous. I've been looking for a pair for a while. Nice score.

Yeah - the K140 led to the K141 and K240, which use the same driver, but obviously different housings.

Since it's a silver K141, it has the same driver as you'd find in a K240 Sextett - but without the passive drivers in the baffle, of course.

Not much in the way of bass, but sometimes that's a good thing.

Every now and then i consider getting a silver (or black) K141, but they get bid up higher than i want to pay most of the time. What I've got is an early 80's K141-M. Gold cups and a ridged cable. I like the way it sounds quite a bit, but it's less comfortable than my other AKGs, so i almost never use it.

You remember that black one in the auction with the K270S a little while back? I have it half disassembled because I didn't want to clean it up and restore it or anything, instead I was just going to part it out but never got around to actually doing it, but you can have it if you want, or Eric can have it if you don't want a pair that requires a bit of work (he likes the really nasty phones for some reason).

It's not that they're filthy, it's that they fit into my budget as a cheap bastard.

Some of my AKG purchases have been less than stellar in financial terms, compared to stuff you've found, Fitz, but that's probably because i only casually search for K240 variations.

The thing is, there are so many of them out there, and there are so many versions that automated search queries are annoying, bordering on useless. So I've probably missed dozens of good scores.

In some sense it's just so i can lord it over people who Pay Too Much. Like the ATH-A900 i picked up for $51. I'm actually starting to regret that because it needs new pads and came with a broken wing. Audio-Technica must be f'ing joking, what they charge for the pads. Pads that belong on $10 headphones from BigLots, and it'd cost me $50 after shipping to get a pair through audiocubes2. It's a damn travesty. Another $35 and possibly another $16 for shipping if i want to replace rather than repair the wing.

I'm not sure i care for the A-T sound signature at all, and I'm starting to not like my prospects for reselling them.

But yeah, if philodox doesn't want 'em, I'll take 'em.

in that case, use hair elastics. Smaller diameter (in both senses) is generally better.

Thanks for the offer Fitz, feel free to send those to ericj... my vanity demands a silver pair.

Silver K140S' that look almost identical to these, but with a more K240S style headband assembly and the cool 'holey' headband are now on their way to me.

Oh, and they are NOS/NIB.

Actually, I came in second place, but the seller had two and offered me a second chance offer.

The k140 were my favorite headphone as a kid growing, up my pops had two pairs they are long gone now. I've been curious how my memories of how good they sound would relate to me ears today.

How bad do these leak? I think these would be awesome as portable headphones... if they will work on the bus without driving everyone nuts.