Need Help Identifying Headphone

[Agnostic]

Click for larger pictures. Do they look like electrostats or electrets?

 

[Duggeh]

Nope. Those are old cheap paper cone driver dynamics. Good value for say, 5 bucks, if you're lucky. Personally I'd stay well away, my guess is they sound awful.

 

[Agnostic]

lol thanks, guess I'll let the slip then...

 

[ericj]

http://classicsansui.net/images/Lite...neous/ss2a.jpg

http://classicsansui.net/images/Lite...neous/ss2b.jpg

They're paper cone headphones and probably sound like a cardboard fart.

 

[Agnostic]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericj /img/forum/go_quote.gif http://classicsansui.net/images/Lite...neous/ss2a.jpg http://classicsansui.net/images/Lite...neous/ss2b.jpg They're paper cone headphones and probably sound like a cardboard fart.

I've never heard a cardboard fart before...I might buy them just to know what that sounds like!

 

[Mindless]

Funky headband.

 

[Nagasaki_Kid]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agnostic /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do they look like electrostats or electrets?

they say 8 impedance on the side. If these were electrostats wouldn't you think they have higher impendence.

 

[ericj]

Yeah, the brochure pics i linked to say 8 ohms as well.

Electrostatic headphones don't have ohmic impedance. Not in the usual sense anyway - it's more meaningful to state their capacitance. But nobody bothers to.

 

[MontyPythizzle]

I was wondering what you guys were going to say about something like these.
I think we had these on our music bus (yes they had headphones that old on this bus in ~1998)(all you do is play piano), and thought that these would be awesome if I could find them at a music store or such.

 

[ericj]

Keep in mind, if you do buy them, 8 ohm impedance means that you need something with a lot of oomph to drive them.

Like a solid state speaker amplifier (with headphone jack) from the same era.

 

[spritzer]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericj /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yeah, the brochure pics i linked to say 8 ohms as well. Electrostatic headphones don't have ohmic impedance. Not in the usual sense anyway - it's more meaningful to state their capacitance. But nobody bothers to.

It's true that capacitance is the only meaningful spec but they have impedance as well. A 4070 is about 145k at 10kHz.. ;p

Those headphones will sound like crap but you could use the housing for some other drivers.

 

[Fitz]

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Originally Posted by ericj /img/forum/go_quote.gif They're paper cone headphones and probably sound like a cardboard fart.

Mmmm... cardboard fartphones. I'm gonna use that to describe phones I don't like from now on.