[Bloosman]

Hi Folks...
 
Just joined the forum, so go easy on me if this has been asked before.
 
I have unearthed my AKG K240 Cardan 'phones, and started listening to them quite regularly.
 
I purchased them new back in the 80's, listened to them occassionaly and then stored them back in their original packaging.
 
Were these "cans" considered a reasonable purchase, and how do they compare to modern equipment...?
 
I'm listening through my Cairn Aria amp, but looking to go for a valve driven headphone amp this year.
 
Dougie,
Aberdeenshire
Scotland.

 

[Adda]

Hello and welcome to the forum

As far as I know the K240 Cardan is in fact a K240 Sextett.
The Sextetts are the most popular K240's around, possibly the most popular vintage cans around too.
Are yours black with silver details and have K240 4-600 Ohm printed on the badge?

 

[Bloosman]

Adda,
 
Thanks for the welcome, and yes, you describe my headphones correctly...
 
...I'm surpirsed there has been no degradation to the foam/padding in all those years of storage, and they still sound fine.
 
Dougie.

 

[Kevin Brown]

You might want to think about getting new pads.  I've bought quite a few of these used over the last year, and while most of them seemed to have very nice pads, without exception, new pads were firmer (and resulted in a hair more bass).
 
But yes, some of us really rate these quite highly among older and current headphones !!