BruinAnteater
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My Vintage Cans -
Sennheiser HD414
Sennheiser HD410SL
Sennheiser HD414
Sennheiser HD410SL
Show us your vintage headphones!
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Dug these out today. 1970's finest
. AKA the Rotel RH-711 Supreme.
Dug these out today. 1970's finest
Nice pic how do they sound
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Surprisingly non atrocious for 70's vintage. Bass waffle as was prominent at the time, but decent detailing and soundstage. I suspect with some internal damping they could run with the middle of the pack today.
GREQ
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I've also seen these branded 'Manta 5000'.
Had a listen to them too. Just your average paper-cone shindig if you ask me.
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Radio Shack Realistic Pro-60. They have Koss embossed on them but I couldn't tell you what model they are based on. Very lightweight so they may be from the late 80's-early 90's. They came with homemade cushions but I replaced them with a some Earzonk copies of Grado L cushions that fit over my ears because of the Pro-60's flat baffles. They came with the original box and spec sheet and the spec sheet says 100 ohms. They respond to my amp quite well.
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Radio Shack Realistic Pro-60. They have Koss embossed on them but I couldn't tell you what model they are based on. Very lightweight so they may be from the late 80's-early 90's. They came with homemade cushions but I replaced them with a some Earzonk copies of Grado L cushions that fit over my ears because of the Pro-60's flat baffles. They came with the original box and spec sheet and the spec sheet says 100 ohms. They respond to my amp quite well.
Looks like the Koss HV1A gussied up in RS livery. For their day they were an exceptional phone.
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It crossed my mind that they are HV/1A's in a different guise.
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Radio Shack Realistic Pro-60. They have Koss embossed on them but I couldn't tell you what model they are based on. Very lightweight so they may be from the late 80's-early 90's. They came with homemade cushions but I replaced them with a some Earzonk copies of Grado L cushions that fit over my ears because of the Pro-60's flat baffles. They came with the original box and spec sheet and the spec sheet says 100 ohms. They respond to my amp quite well.
That's a KOSS HV/X rebadge, which was their flagship in the 80's. It's supposed to be pretty good.
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They do sound good. I have been using the HV/1 for general listening but the Pro-60/HV/X bests it with better bass.
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I have a set of Audio Technica AT-703s and would be interested to know other people's impression of them as my ears are not so refined yet. I have some thoughts about them but just layman's vague generalities. How would they compare to the sextetts or what would be a comparable modern set of cans?
Thanks and this thread is really interesting. Some really beautiful engineering.
Thanks and this thread is really interesting. Some really beautiful engineering.
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Haven't heard those, but the AT dynamics I've had from the 1980s were all pretty underwhelming, so it's probably safe to say they're a couple notches below the sextett.
AT seems to have problems with extension extremes and managing the IMD of their headphone transducers, even nowadays...
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Thanks for the input. Yeah, it does seem underwhelming, nothing exciting about them and they seem, well, muffled or veiled. I bought them mostly for their aesthetics since it was so hard to find anything about the SQ. I have a set of Realistic Pro 50s coming my way soon so that will be interesting. Not much in the bass department but maybe there will be something fun and new.
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