Thanks Head Injury and Navermyr. Great link on the history; that was a big help. Looks pretty consistent. I really have to save up for a pair of these.

Finally getting back to the headphones in THX 1138. After looking around, I tend to think that the headphones look most like the AKG K-60 model (the image shown by Acix). The earcups at the very least! I'm not such an expert on the Telefunken or Pioneer models. The vintage Pioneer models I...

I have been trying to figure out the history of the Sennheiser HD 25 and the various models that have been released: HD 25-1 II, etc. It seems quite complicated. It's impressive that the original Sennheiser HD 25 was released way back in 1988!! It seemed to make a big impact then as studio...

To Acix and Negakinu, Thanks so much for the info regarding THX1138 and the suggestions regarding Telefunken versus Pioneer headphones. Yeah, I think there are a number of headphones used over the course of the film, some with the leatherbands stripped and others without: there are even earbuds...

Awesome scene. Gotta love Spaceballs and Princess Vespa. I just knew there was a headphone logic to that hairstyle.

Hi everybody on Head-fi,   I am new here and am looking forward to being part of this wonderful community. As a first post (not sure if this has been discussed before), I wanted to write about an ongoing project of mine. It concerns finding and examining movies that have either (1)...