I've seen posts here and there commenting on the difficulty of recabling the K1000, and it's definitely not something a novice DIYer should attempt, but I think most of the fear and confusion over recabling them comes from their unusual construction and lack of information regarding safe...

Had to take this RK40 apart for some minor repairs & cleaning, so I thought I'd snap a couple pics for anybody who might be interested in what they look like inside...

Quick and simple question... what's the cheapest Sennheiser currently available that can fit the detachable cables like on the HD650? I won't be using them for listening, so sound quality isn't a factor.

Steve gave me this headphone stand a while ago, but I won't need it much longer since I am having him design and build me a new stand, so I am going to pass this one along to somebody else. To enter you must: 1) Post a picture of how you're storing/hanging your phones now. 2) Registered...

Like the title says, can anybody identify which headphones Shunichi Miyamoto is using in this photo? A lot of the detail is lost because of how dark it is, but maybe somebody will recognize them.

Ok, so since I am in the process of selling most of my headphone equipment, I've made the decision that I will keep three of the headphones. Although I've already pretty much narrowed it down, I am curious what other people would choose with the same options. It is a multiple choice poll, but...

Just to give a heads up so nobody freaks out when I start posting the FS ads, I will be selling most of my headphones over the next few weeks. If you are somebody I had promised dibs on a specific model next time I sold one, please PM me ASAP so I'll remember. If you don't I'll most likely...

I bought a broken K500 off of ebay to see if I could get some spare parts for another pair, but ended up finding something else very interesting. I've owned and serviced several pairs of K500s, and while cables and earpads had variations from production changes over time, they all shared the...

I have my closet shelves setup with some DIY headphone hangers that let me hang my AKGs by the headband wires, which works great for them. It also works great for the Stax Lambda, but when I try to hang the Stax Sigma like this, the earcaverns (they are too big to be earcups) flop outwards...

I wanted to get an extra set of the temple pads for my K1000, but I was quoted over $26 each and there's four of them! I can't figure out how these stupid little things could cost that much, especially compared to the prices for full-size pads. I wonder if there is a good DIY alternative to...

I've been thinking lately, since I'm rapidly running out of ways to get around the fact that I have twice as much stuff as I do storage space, whether or not I should sell many of my headphones (3 or 4 dozen). They take up a lot of valuable shelf space, and I could put the money to better use in...

Yesterday I happened to meet up with an old friend I haven't seen in years, and while on the road he was talking about his new (used) car. It has a Bose sound system, "which is like, the best." I just smiled and nodded, allowing such blasphemous words to pass without any retribution. Once we've...

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Or at least that's what I'd like to think. This is actually a serious thread, so let me give a little background information. Since pretty much as long as I can remember, I have heard slightly better out of my left ear than my right ear. In normal daily life it was a trivially small...

Check out what somebody just paid for a pair of K240 Sextetts: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=200159738937 For reference, a mint / NOS pair usually goes for half that much.

Usually I do not have to sign for international packages, but this time I did. The box is also bigger and heavier than the ones that usually come, and has a lot more stickers on it. I am not sure what it could be? Maybe you can help me, because the box has so much tape that I am still trying...

Ok, so I haven't bought a K1000 for a while because for how they sounded to me I did not feel they were worth the $1000+ price that they usually go for now. But I am running out of good out of production AKGs to track down (I have found so many in so little time, I misjudged the difficulty), so...

Okay, this is a stub for the mini-meet at my place, so for those of you who were here, go ahead and post your pictures and impressions when you get a chance. I'm still putting all my headphones back up and getting my system reassembled, so I'll post my own impressions later tonight or tomorrow.

It's time for the next installment in the AKG giveaway series. This time the K135/S is up for grabs. I haven't been able to think of anything clever for this contest, so just post in this thread that you want the phones in order to be included in the drawing. I want the phones to go to an...

So I finally got the new driver for my DT931 that I killed a few weeks ago. I decided rather than just throwing the broken one away, I would do something else with it, so now I have this hanging above my workbench: It is not very clear because I didn't use flash so you can see how the...

I was getting tired of the cables tangling up all the time, so I decided to clear off the headphones I currently had on my desk. After getting them all untangled, this is what I ended up with, all of which were indeed on my desk: Obviously this is not all of my collection, and I do not...

Does anyone know a place to source some coarse open cell foam in 1/16" thick sheets/rolls (similar to the stuff in Stax or Sennheiser headphones)? I want to make some acoustically transparent pads to go inside headphones that put your ear against bare plastic, for some extra comfort. I have...

After a few weeks of anxiously waiting for my new toy to show up, today it finally has! The AKG K290 Surround with the optional switchbox, both NOS, which I got a fair deal on from a guy in Austria. I'm not big on surround sound, as I don't even have a surround sound amp to run these. The real...

I've been trying to get some of my junk organized, and came across a ton of resistors like these. They're all 1% tolerance, and extremely light for their size (seems as though something small was potted inside a larger shell). I've never seen any resistors like this before though, and was hoping...

If I contribute more money to Head-Fi than I did last time, does the PM box size go up even more, and by how much? This 500 PM limit is killing me lately, I hate having to delete recent messages.