spritzer
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The Koss is a brute, weighing in at nearly 2lbs. (830gr.) and the Suprex was the first affordable electrostatic headphone made. Both are classics but need some care to be useful today. You can use both of them with Stax amps (normal bias) if you replace the cable/plug.
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Stax has always been very well made and thought out but the others aren't. You have a snowballs chance in hell of finding a 100% functioning Micro Seiki because the film dries out, the Koss models have foam inside the cups that breaks down an causes shorts and the Suprex was built by people that didn't really know what they were doing. It's easy to rebuild them and make them better, even much better as it the case with the Suprex. They are probably the best rock phones ever made with the right mods and slam like crazy. Who said that Grado was the best NY based headphone manufacturer...
Originally Posted by usc goose /img/forum/go_quote.gif nice stuff spritzer, i dig the superex and the koss with those frankenstein bolts. |
The Koss is a brute, weighing in at nearly 2lbs. (830gr.) and the Suprex was the first affordable electrostatic headphone made. Both are classics but need some care to be useful today. You can use both of them with Stax amps (normal bias) if you replace the cable/plug.
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Originally Posted by fuzzy fuzzbucket /img/forum/go_quote.gif man i love vintage designs.. i think thats one reason why i got Grados... things back then were made to last dont you think?? |
Stax has always been very well made and thought out but the others aren't. You have a snowballs chance in hell of finding a 100% functioning Micro Seiki because the film dries out, the Koss models have foam inside the cups that breaks down an causes shorts and the Suprex was built by people that didn't really know what they were doing. It's easy to rebuild them and make them better, even much better as it the case with the Suprex. They are probably the best rock phones ever made with the right mods and slam like crazy. Who said that Grado was the best NY based headphone manufacturer...