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You're welcome mate! I'll be shipping them out today. It was much more interesting to review them than I thought it would be. Quite an interesting pair of cans. Thanks!
To anyone who's disassembled the Sextett, I've popped off the front grill, but can't seem to find a way to pull off the back grill to get at the diffusers. Help?
Hmm well I got that far, but I was wondering if the diffusers themselves can be taken out... this is mine: http://www.head-fi.org/gallery/image/view/id/182230
No, those don't come out, at least not without cutting the plastic. Each individual disc is put into the baffle from behind, then the plastic is melted in spots to permanently fix it in place.
Tyll I completely agree with your findings. Especially with the bass response. The biggest flaw of their bass is extension.
Tyll just posted measurements of my Sextetts on InnerFidelity
I'm surprised by the FR measurements. The midrange doesn't seem as pronounced as I would have thought, and the treble seems more pronounced. But it's cool how much he liked them.
Thanks Tyll!!
that is interesting. thing i remember don't he measure in a diffused field environment? i'm not sure how he measures headphones and from my understanding the sexetts are actually free-field equalized. i have docs i think i posted here before showing the sextetts were measured using a head dummy in an anechoic chamber. wouldn't it be kinda odd measuring a headphone in a diffused field environment which were free-field equalized? i'm just curious.
Hi there, I have some AKG K240 sextetts which I was given many years ago, although they sound great they were in a pretty poor condition when I got them initially, so I stripped them down and gave them a thorough clean / service.
While I was doing this, on one side the red/white leads snapped off due to me moving them around, and maybe age. I resoldered them back on, but was just wondering recently if the phase mattered? I seem to remember putting them the same way as the other side, but it was months ago now so I can't really remember.
As I said they sound fine, but my OCD has me worrying now if one side is actually out of phase, and if this is even possible on such a thing? I mean it'd be like connecting a speaker the wrong way around surely?
Was just wondering if there is an easy way to test, I have the wiring diagram, would have to peel the little labels off the headphones again and totally dismantle them if I wanted to check that's all.
I asked someone before more knowledgeable than me and he just said 'use a multimeter' which is fair enough, but the wiring diagram no matter how simple, confuses me to begin with.
So just asking if it would actually make a difference first off and then I'll decide to open them up again and check. cheers!
These are the wires I'm talking about (not my photo)
http://imageshack.us/f/178/1494913xh9.jpg/
Hi there, long time reader but first post. I was advised to come here by some guys over at HiFi Wigwam to see if I could get any answers to my question.
I've done a search regarding my question but I'm still not entirely sure, so I'll just post my thread here too:
Quote:Hi there, I have some AKG K240 sextetts which I was given many years ago, although they sound great they were in a pretty poor condition when I got them initially, so I stripped them down and gave them a thorough clean / service.
While I was doing this, on one side the red/white leads snapped off due to me moving them around, and maybe age. I resoldered them back on, but was just wondering recently if the phase mattered? I seem to remember putting them the same way as the other side, but it was months ago now so I can't really remember.
As I said they sound fine, but my OCD has me worrying now if one side is actually out of phase, and if this is even possible on such a thing? I mean it'd be like connecting a speaker the wrong way around surely?
Was just wondering if there is an easy way to test, I have the wiring diagram, would have to peel the little labels off the headphones again and totally dismantle them if I wanted to check that's all.
I asked someone before more knowledgeable than me and he just said 'use a multimeter' which is fair enough, but the wiring diagram no matter how simple, confuses me to begin with.
So just asking if it would actually make a difference first off and then I'll decide to open them up again and check. cheers!
These are the wires I'm talking about (not my photo)
http://imageshack.us/f/178/1494913xh9.jpg/
I've read from here that the wiring is as follows:
Red = Right +
White = Right -
Yellow = Left +
Blue = Left -
But it'd be nice to find out which way +/- is on the actual driver!
Any help would be great! thanks, I love the K240 Sextett and hope I have soldered the connector the correct way around!