To judge any single big or little mods is fiendlish difficult and never objective. I'd dare say that every single mods adds and subtracts in the same time, influencing several different parameters. Cans are not exceptions. But, colinharding found the screens useful to keep ears off the...

Quote: Since you noticed no significant difference and screens do keep your ears away from the transducers, I guess that it's better to let the plastic screens on. I have no experience of this mod alone.  As I didn't modify myself the cans, I couldn't check the impact (pos or neg) of each...

Quote: May I? Hardwiring is not easy and quite a risk. Maybe it's not so necessary, a proper tailspin cable can do a lot without any risk. In my experience, the "bass light" k-1000 do not like silver cables and even spc cables. I would prefer copper with them. Pls. excuse my meddling.

Quote: I will not comment on prices, but I agree on the RW. Having spent many years swapping valve and hybrid amplifiers, without satisfaction and spending too much money, to reach the k-1000 nirvana, a few years ago, I read the 6Moons reviews of the RW 30.2 and Pass/FirstWatt F1...

Quote:   I'm not really an expert, but as far as I read, elastics come in every sort of size, diameter, colour and strenght. Better try a shop or department store than peering in your daughter's drawers... Male ponytailers have been storming these shops for years  Seems that...

I own a so-called bass-light K-340, I've been keeping them stock for 3 or 4 years ago, I felt they hadn't the kind of sound I like and were heavy and offerred a little or no wearing comfort.  I eventually decided to invest some money in a modding, as I wouldn't be able to DIY.   I decided...

Seems a nice bargain for an almost new (or NOS) AKG k340. Is the one you already have a stock one? That's mandatory that they are both stock, unmodified, for a proper comparison.

- To DefectiveAudioComponent: An interesting solution indeed. Who will volunteer bringing in the much cherished k-340 for the bag?  May I add that measurements were very fashionable in the Seventies, when the best performers are longtime forgotten, nowadays, we  will never consider that...

Quote: My two cents: there is very scarce evidence of "facts" all over the hifi world. That do not exclude that differences among headphones of the same model are quite noticeable.  Nobody, I guess, would be able to measure those differences (there is a problem of cost, time, technical...

AFAIK, the problem is that any stock version, regardless of drivers' colour, reproduce a different sonic signature when modified and each modder give a different tuning. Most of the difference being introduced by cutting the stock plastic screens off (replacing with fabric screens) and changing...

I have an old pair of bass-light K-340, I think I paid 120 euros (bought second hand in Italy 3 or 4 years ago), they were in quite good condition, but without original box or manual.   I seldom use them, because they haven't really the kind of sound I like and were heavy and offerred a...

I guess you already got your AKG k-340 from Daroid. Maybe I'm OT, but I'm curious. How dou you compare your new cans with the k-601? The old ladies can be shokingly different from the very polite (and somewhat sterile) 601. How do you drive the k-340? I feel they are quite heavy to...

My Jecklin Float will be 20 years old in a few days. It’s a Model Two, I remember I got it for my birthday, in 1988. It's worked flawlessy for years and, in 2005, I had it checked and revamped with new foams. A nice job, so I can still enjoy it, time to time. Ok maybe it sounds a bit old...