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You should be able to find someone, good luck.
As for the posts above yours by
palindrom, don't bother with velour pads for the Sextetts, it sound really bad. Unless you have plans to modify the velours somehow. I imagine the right ventilation holes or other mods could get them sounding good, but otherwise it's really not worth it.
Well, it worked for me
Maybe I'll show what kept me busy for last 3 hours. Starting point:
Of course elastic bands were long dead. Cardan was loose (foam decomposed) and squeaky. The smell was awful. I really hate cigarette smoke.
Maybe it doesn't look so obvious, but earpads were flat. Headband got strange shape, probably because of hanging HP on something
So I contacted AKG dealer in my country and...
got velour earpads, original rubber bands, 4xfoam and mini-XLR. Maybe in future I'll consider a little upgrade, but for now I'm staying with vintage Sextetts.
If adm allow, I'll show some HP pornography
Dismantling...
I've cleaned every single part using brushes, clothes and alcohol. Plastic parts went swimming in detergent.
I managed to take off only one grille. Plastic was broken there.
All elements in excellent condition. Beautiful!
What was done:
- Deep cleaning
- New elastics
- New foam
- New earpads
- Grilles bonded in few points with elastic polymer glue
- Cardan cleaned on joints and lubricated with small amount of dense silicon+Teflon grease
- Aluminum elements polished and glued with polymer glue
- Head strap ironed (carefully through cloth
)
I didn't recable them. Original cable is good enough for me.
This is how they look now:
As new. Try to find headphones of that quality today
It's a shame I can't post sound sample
PS
sorry for long-ish post.