how to tell which sextett?

[unkle11]

so based on curiosity i bid for and won a pair of sextetts on ebay, now i'm just wondering how i tell visually, which model it is, from what i understand there are 3 different types, i remember seeing a thread with pics up here before but i can no longer find it, any help would be great thanks

 

[ericj]

Please read through any of the existing sextett discussions.

this has been covered several times.

 

[unkle11]

i apologize, specifically can someone point out the thread with the photos of the different models of k240s side by side?

 

[kamal007]

silver ring?
post the ebay link and let us determine whether its a sextett or not

 

[OverlordXenu]

003's signature.

 

[unkle11]

wow kama, that statement scares me http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tab%3DWatching
well come to think of it, they might not be just cos of the headbands huh,


and thank you overlord xenu

 

[jellojoe]

Ah, I almost bid on that one. Compared to yesterday, you got a nice 50% discount. It's definitely a sextet unless the seller put up a misleading picture. Don't worry about the text description, lots of ebay sellers mess up the sextet info. You'd have to go through the sextet thread to figure out which production it is though.

 

[003]

Link in my signature. You probably won't be able to tell from the ebay pictures, most likely.

 

[Fitz]

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Originally Posted by jellojoe /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ah, I almost bid on that one. Compared to yesterday, you got a nice 50% discount. It's definitely a sextet unless the seller put up a misleading picture. Don't worry about the text description, lots of ebay sellers mess up the sextet info. You'd have to go through the sextet thread to figure out which production it is though.

It's still on the expensive side for a Sextett.

 

[Zorander]

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Originally Posted by Fitz /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's still on the expensive side for a Sextett.

Agreed. I bought mine for much less than that (though insured shipping to Australia jacked up the price

).

 

[jellojoe]

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Originally Posted by Fitz /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's still on the expensive side for a Sextett.

I think I paid about the same for mine. I was not part of team 30-year-mortgage at the time so it wasn't so bad.

 

[kamal007]

darn it.. so you were the one that outbidded me. im not going to help. =)

imo thats a sextett.

 

[unkle11]

lol sorry man i had been eyeing the first 2 sets but the bids just went nuts, yea the pic says 600ohms on the side.. so i'm hoping i'm right, although the guys description was of the newer model k240s

 

[ericj]

It's never been in question whether it's a sextett - it is. Silver rings are only on the sextett model of the k240 (and on the k260 and k340 and probably some others - but no other version of the k240).

The question is what version sextett - you have to see the baffle to know. With some major image enhancement you might be able to find some orange-ish pixels in the grille area on one of the pictures, but, just pull the earpads off it when it gets there and compare it to the identification info we've got.

Fitz says that he's seen broken grilles from trying to get them off of sextetts, so be careful taking it of for cleaning if you do, but i personally had no trouble getting the grilles off of either of my sextetts. My guess is that the trick is to pry gently around the edge with a mediocre tool (like your thumbnail) even though it will seem as though you're making no progress until you've gone around the whole grille maybe two or three times. In essence, you have to just worry it out - it you go in with too much leverage you'll break it.

 

[unkle11]

ah well, we'll see whether my ears think they are worth it or not i guess hehe but i got into a mini ebay frenzy at the final moments and went like.. 10 bucks over my initial limit


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Originally Posted by Fitz /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's still on the expensive side for a Sextett.