Not the ear pad ;) But the pad (or whatever you call it where you terminate the cables on to the driver has lifted on my SA5000s).   I only recently re-cabled these headphones with an old HD600 cable. Well, I feel asleep with them on to wake up a few hours later...with sound only coming out...

Thanks Amarphael, I will do.

shameless bump :(

bump :(

Not the ear pad ;) But the pad (or whatever you call it where you terminate the cables on to the driver has lifted on my SA5000s).   I only recently re-cabled these headphones with an old HD600 cable. Well, I feel asleep with them on to wake up a few hours later...with sound only coming out...

Got my SA5000s back up and working again after half a decade of no Sony love!   The cable had died (standard) and I think I just went and got a pair of AD2000s. Well one of the channels on there died...attempted to resolder it back as I have done many times before and all hell broke lose -...

Hi all...long time since I've been here, head-fi clawing me back again!!   So, my Taket H2 seemed to have developed a fault on the left channel, a long time ago. Think I might have overdriven it. So anyway whilst I'll get it fixed I noticed that there is a new H2...one with a + on the end...

Werther that is a mighty impressive collection you have built - heres to the next phone to enter it!

Hi Athfan, that is a truly stunning collection you have there, do you have a favourite amongst them?

Yes, there is next to nothing about this headphones anywhere. Its a shame that gems like these go unnoticed, I mean, without being too melodramatic, who knows what else lies out there. http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f13/wo...ctures-242385/

How about something outside the box...how about a Taket H2? :]

Amazing collection cwilson!!

I've always found to be levied VAT on items that pass from USPS to Parcelforce/RM. Always escape it with other couriers though (experience from some 10-15 big purchases where there was a chance for the taxman to rob me royally).

A UE hip flask? Man maybe its time to diversify to UE!! It's nice to put a pic to the ops of companies, nice job on the pics.

Must have been with some V150s or some Aiwa over the head-phones wayy back in the day. So young. So naiive :]

I am still disturbed by the lack of detail in some high end speakers I've had the displeasure of sitting with vs my lowly headphones. ...but then I do have a TakeT

Enjoy, they are very nice headphones.

Quote: Originally Posted by greggf ...made by a company that may soon disappear from the face of the earth, or, at the least, be transmogrified into a lowest-common-denominator boombox manufacturer?)) What? A well established company which makes some of the best AV receivers in...

TAKET H2s!!!! I know I keep singing their praises but its for a reason.

Not very long if it has 'Sony' written on the side. OK, maybe thats a little harsh, but at the very least the cable should become intermittent after a year or two.

I don't know maybe there is some bizarre reaction between the pleather and my skin (and no, cleanliness is next to godliness to me, I keep clean!!) and maybe by head is too oblong shaped thus destroying the headband. Or maybe just a bad batch? Joking aside I can recall threads concerning the...

I enjoyed using my CD3ks in the period that I did but the build quality is absolutely atrocious. The cheap imitation crap 'pleather' pads just seem to disintegrate even with the care I gave them. And what about the headband assembly with that ludicrous pin simply being woven into suspension...

Out of my all phones it still is by far the most fun to listen to and still blows me away by the amount of detail it can resolve and its positioning ability versus the same music on my other headphones. Now the change between when I moved from one headphone to another was something but from...

Can't help you with your question but wish you the best luck in finding the best system for you.

After years of the 580/600/650 I'd assume that R&D and the manufacturing facilities has long been covered. They are most definitely among the most highly respected audiophile headphones in existence and so with that all the people that has bought it, keeping the price down. Probably are...