[ironstar]

Hello,
 
Just sharing my thoughts since I have started collecting headphones when I started visiting Head-fi.
 
The idea is to collect one headphone from each brand to show it to my future son/daughter that this were the headphones when I was your age.
 
I'll just start with budget in mind since headphones in my country are expensive.
 
The first is my Koss Portapro since this was the first headphone I bought when I visited Head-fi.
 
Any thoughts?
 

 

[wilzc]

Owh many icons around!!
 
Apple: iBuds
 
Audio Technica: Ath m50, Ath ad700, Ath CK10
 
Beats by Dre: Studio, JustBeats Solo.
 
Beyerdynamic: DT250 or DT48
 
Bose: Triport, QC3/QC15
 
Etymotic: er4p
 
Fostex: T50p
 
Grado: Sr60
 
Hifiman: Re0
 
JHAudio: Any customs, JH16 if you will
 
JVC: HA FX 700
 
Klipsch: Image s4, Image x10
 
Koss: KSC75, PortaPro
 
Monster: Turbines
 
Ortofon: Eq-7
 
Pioneer: SE L40
 
Sennheiser: PX100, HD25-i-ii, HD600, HD800, HE90, CX300
 
Shure: SCL5, SE530
 
Skullcandy: Pick any..  really..
 
Sony: MDR v6, R10, 010
 
Ultimate Ears: Triple.fi 10
 
Ultrasone: HFi 15g.
 
Westone: UM2, Westone 4
 
 

 

[goodvibes]

ER4s, Stax Lambda, Sennheiser HD424 . You could open up a 20 or 30 year capsule and be doing pretty well for yourself.

Grado SR60s will be 20 years old on a couple and they're also pretty significant.

 

[ironstar]

Thanks for sharing
 
 
Well I have put my portapro in the time capsule now. This will be my representative for the bang-for-the-buck Koss sound.
 
For Grado should I put the Alessandro MS1i or the SR60i or both?

 

[Lurkumaural]

SR60 (i or no i); more iconic.

I like the other suggestions to the thread. Excellent call on the TF10. If there's no small proportion of IEM's I'd add the ADDIEM to stand with the Apple buds, just so we know Apple tried to aim quite a bit higher. I'd substitute MDR-7506 for V6, and maybe the wooden full-size JVC because it's quite sexy. Also if we're including rather pricey phones, the TOTL Audio Technica open phones would represent well. The Senn lineup over the years deserves its own time capsule .

And being a KSC75 owner, it gets my vote for singularly epitomizing cost versus performance (though recently in my head-fi journey I have found it wanting).

 

[ironstar]

Thanks for the suggestions wilzc, goodvibes and Lurkumaural
 
Now putting my UE TF10...
 

 

[Leynar]

Fitting. Since they're discontinuing the tf10s

 

[ironstar]

Next is my Superlux HD668B since this are so cheap here...

 

[some1]

Sony MDR-D77, so overpriced now and harder to find than hens teeth

 

[lucozade]

Definitely a true classic of its time ,which deserves its place in history .
 
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Thanks for the suggestions wilzc, goodvibes and Lurkumaural
 
Now putting my UE TF10...
 

 

 

[xII DM IIx]

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Fitting. Since they're discontinuing the tf10s

What. Are you serious? Will they replace it with an updated triple driver model or what?
 

 

[Kanashimu]

AKG - K1000
Audio Technica - ESW10
 

 

[NotSoSerious]

Very creative and clever..
Do you think they will continue working 30 years from now?
 
 

 

[Leynar]

 
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What. Are you serious? Will they replace it with an updated triple driver model or what?
 

 
Not sure. They recently released a identical TF10 in a different name

 

[nickosiris]

The original Radius DDM (TWF11R).
 
In my brain they casually blow away IEMs costing four times their price, and are the least fatiguing universals I've come across. A true classic.