Igor Sirodzha featuring Sonya Suhorukova - The Rain. Igor Sirodzha is guitarist and composer, member of vast amount of underground and popmusic projects.

MC Fame - beatbox, rap musician. One of "quickest" rappers on the russian stage. Prolific composer, maybe half of russian rappers sing his songs. Has beatbox masterclasses in Kiev, Ukraine. Mc Fame singing on the street, song "Dal Pape Sdache"    

5'nizza ("Friday" in English) - brilliant underground project of the middle of 2000s. Duet consisted of two people: Andrey Zaporozhets and Sergey Babkin. Clips below gained millions of views on youtube:   Soldat ("Soldier") - megahit, every teenager in Russia and Ukraine knows this song...

Sunsay - one of the most popular underground music stars in Russia        

Master Of Puppets is interesting, next two songs are garbage.

Here you can find some info:   http://www.humanspeakers.com/e/epi-he19.htm

What is absent in my collection?   TDS 5 - early predecessor of TDS 5M, nearly identical to 5M. They are out of my interest. Everything about TDS 5\5M here: http://lossy.ru/forums/showthread.php?t=43 There are different manufacturers of TDS 5M, completely identical to each other.  ...

  Quote: Sure, information about TDS can be used in wikiphonia. Dual DK 720, I had them, but let them go, too many headphones in the house, I've sold part of collection. Dual DK 330 is enough for me from this german line.   Soviet orthos cost more nowadays. The same story happened...

How they sound? TDS 5M supposed to be soviet analog of Yamaha HP-1. I did not take direct comparison. I like these cans more when listening some of 80s stuff - punk, new wave, pop. They have enough drive for such music, a little hump in upper bass, timed with extra dampening. Lots of owners...

More pictures:       TDS 5M and TDS 7:       TDS 7, TDS 15, TDS 16 Echo (Kiev):       TDS 16 Echo (Kiev) and TDS 16 (Smela). The same drivers, different housing, cables. They sound very different.    

Hi, folks, I've been here very looong time ago. Why I cannot see any rumours about TDS? OK, I'll fill the gap.   USSR basic orthodynamic headphones:     From left to right: TDS 5M (Saratov) TDS 7 (Kishinev) TDS 15 (black version) TDS 16 Echo (Kiev) TDS 16 Echo (Smela)...

Quote: Originally Posted by wualta I believe it was the Russian headphones chart posted by Angelic that tipped me to the SS-100's existence. Interesting that Kabeer will be getting the headphone inspired by the big-driver Fostexen, the TDS-15, which looks a lot more like an old T50 than...

Quote: Originally Posted by glitch39 PG - yes, those look right. Not sure about the diamond markings in the back (if they mean anything) Markings in the back are the date of production: 9 month 1990 year and factory quality control mark usual for russian factories. Difference...

The same images posted at the beginning of this thread there are in posts 1011 and 1012 in .rar archives. As I know only the one first amp was sold at doctorhead.ru. It's not in the catalogue yet, I suppose, mass production will start next year.

Favourite orthos? It's a tough question. I like TDS 15 for heavy metal listening (especially from USSR, China, Japan). For these cans I don't feel I need any modding. TDS 5M (bass-light version, I hate bass-heavy version) for 80-s rock, dream pop, 4AD rock. These cans have the same...