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post #46 of 872
7/20/09 at 8:38pm
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Originally Posted by RushNerd View Post
"i eq'd up to 20 db of extra bass end into these and they just kept on going!"
Sounds like MY KINDA PHONES!!! Want
keep your ebay eyes open. they pop up regularly and usualy go for $20-50$ depending on condition and other bidders
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post #47 of 872
8/11/09 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by JadeEast View Post
Akg k180 late 60s.

From the brochue.

"The SCS approach.

Subjectively controllable sound

This means: The acoustically effective auditory volume (ie the volume between the headphone driver and the eardrum) can be infinitely varied by a turn of the adjusting knobs; this feature allowing, for the first time, the individual selection of your "seat in the concert hall" and the adaptation of the sound to your individual physiological acoustic taste."
They have simple and nice design
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post #48 of 872
8/20/09 at 11:21pm
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just got these chrome beauties. these pics dont do it justice. zero info on them. zenith headphones, open air type, volume controls, large magnet type speakers. so late 70s?
these actually arrived with a bad cable so i recabled it with a spare. sound is decent for the time. decent highs and mids, has a mid bass bump. a little of the distant sound of paper cone drivers but not too much
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post #49 of 872
8/21/09 at 1:25am
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Originally Posted by semaniaci View Post
the adaptation of the sound to your individual physiological acoustic taste."
Gotta love the sonic semantics.
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post #50 of 872
8/21/09 at 4:33am
Got a pair of these in 1981!
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post #51 of 872
8/21/09 at 2:08pm
Top of the Realistic/Radioshack line back then ! They look like new. Get much use out of them and what are your "Go To" cans now?
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post #52 of 872
8/21/09 at 8:54pm
Yes, for my then 18 year old ears, they were great! I found that photo as mine went into the trash in 94. Now I use a pair of Sony MDR - CD 870s from the mid 90s.
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post #53 of 872
8/21/09 at 9:17pm
I have a pair cd 870 too. do the red shifter mod from the cd1700 mods to them.(page was deleted) some dampening in back of the driver and foam removal from the front of the drivers. The cd870 sound like a fuller sony v6.

Edit: oops was think of 780s
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post #54 of 872
10/30/09 at 5:30pm

what are these

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Originally Posted by DefectiveAudioComponent View Post
A somewhat unusual vintage headphone. I'm still modding it, so I don't know yet how good it can be. Stock, it's underwhelming.

i really like em,
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post #55 of 872
10/30/09 at 5:31pm
dig the cans-

ourfpshero -b4. stanton dynaphase sixt
,Sonic pro 90
JadeEast
Akg k180 late 60s.these




gear: koss pro4AAA, denon7000-audio technica ha25d amp/dac
ue superfi 5 eb, triplefi 10vi-Rsa Predator amp/dac
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post #56 of 872
10/30/09 at 6:50pm
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post #57 of 872
10/30/09 at 6:51pm
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Originally Posted by Currawong View Post
My first headphones were my father's Sennheiser HD-424's. I remember the yellow pads disintegrated, so i made some by cutting up bits of foam from elsewhere. The picture isn't of my pair, as they are in Australia.
Had a pair just like that from 1975 until they completely gave out somewhere around 1995. I had to make some foam pads as the originals only lasted about 15 years!! They were amazing phones!
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post #58 of 872
10/30/09 at 7:00pm
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Originally Posted by Kabeer View Post

yay! Wharfedale ID1 and Aiwa FTW!!
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post #59 of 872
10/30/09 at 9:47pm
Phodis complete with its volume control and the Nova 40 both from back in the pre CD days.
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post #60 of 872
10/30/09 at 10:32pm
Pioneer Monitor 10.



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