[Mercuttio]

That thing is like the great grandfather of the earbud!

 

[skudmunky]

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Originally Posted by Mercuttio [IM]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/dirty_d/DSCF0020.jpg[/IMG] That thing is like the great grandfather of the earbud!

thats what I was thinking. Maybe for godzilla!

 

[devwild]

I want a pair of them to rig up to look like earbuds and hang on my wall

 

[afxdave]

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Originally Posted by The_Duke_Of_Eli That's got to be the strangest headphone ever; how do you even mix with one hand? Lol. I don't think these were very popular; and if they were; wow.

This style of headphone is my bread and butter (check my profile). It is very popular with todays dance music DJs (aka "house" DJs). Stick headphones are very ideal as it allows the DJ to focus on the party rather than the mixing of the music. The DJ will cue the record into the mix by monitoring the incoming record on one ear while listening to the party/monitor speakers with the other ear. Once the record is ready to be presented into the mix they can easily put the headphone down.

The Sennheiser HD412 is an early model actually made for record stores. Beyerdynamic made a similar one (DT49). The idea for them was so that customers wouldn't get too comfortable when they were listening to music (no loitering). By the 70s; dance music gained popularity for DJs at parties and this headphone style worked out for their presentation. Stick headphones are a niche market (that I cater to) and at the fringes of DJ subculture.

 

[digitalmind]

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Originally Posted by afxdave THE Disco DJ headphone []http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/dirty_d/DSCF0017.jpg[/IMG] []http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/dirty_d/1978danny3.jpg[/IMG] []http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/dirty_d/DSCF0025.jpg[/IMG]

Why on earth does that thing have a stereo plug?

 

[afxdave]

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Originally Posted by digitalmind Why on earth does that thing have a stereo plug?

Monitoring both left + right channels at the same time. Say, if you are bringing in a record where the high-hats are panned hard right, then it wouldn't be good to only hear the left side.

 

[Meyvn]

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Originally Posted by das_bill Here is a neat pair of phones. Don't sound great out of a HEADPHONE out but I need to try them out of my amp. They are 8ohm so they should sound better hopefully.

Those look like they belong in a high school language lab.

 

[Meyvn]

oops. delete.

 

[boss]

Koss KO727. These have been sitting in my closet for years. Can anyone dig up info on these? There seems to be nothing about them on the internet.

 

[Duggeh]

http://www.thismanwillkillyou.com/bu...i/DSC00035.JPG

 

[rickcr42]

Kinda cool and likely would kick butt as HT cans with a four channel amp + crossfeed from the HT DVD player Dolby Digital outs

http://members.cox.net/surround/quaddisc/quadhead.htm

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Koss KO727. These have been sitting in my closet for years. Can anyone dig up info on these? There seems to be nothing about them on the internet.

I actually remember those (yes I am THAT old so hold it right there

) which were an entry model sold at just about every electronics outpet such as Radio shack and Lafayette Radio.
There was a web site that specialised in vintage headphone information,and where I initially got my Realistic HP-100 info,but since moving to a new server provided by "parts conneXion" I have had zero luck finding anything I need.Maybe you will have better luck

http://www.audiocircuit.com/9112-dyn...t/9112IMAI.htm

 

[rickcr42]

was this already posted ?

http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/esl/comp/comp.htm


if not then enjoy.Not a whole lot of inforamtion other than the basic specs but the best group of rare and vintage 'stat pics I have come across

 

[studeb]

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Originally Posted by wualta Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I didn't want newbie 'stat buyers to be disappointed or confused. We've been saying the old Realistic (Radio Shack) HP-100 model was made by Stax, and while this may be true, the HP-100 will not work properly out of a low-bias jack on a Stax amp. The plug will fit and if the diaphragms are charged you'll hear sound, but the channels are summed, so it's mono, and there's no bass. I just got a very dirty HP-100 from That Auction Site that looked like it'd been sitting on the floor of somebody's garage for 30 years and was very upset when I heard zilch the first time I plugged it into my SRM-1 Mk 2 Pro amp. I left it overnight on its transformer box to make sure the diaphragms were being charged, then tried it again on the Stax and got mono with very little bass. Yet it sounds wonderful out of its transformer box hooked up to an old Hitachi MOSFET amp. Almost shockingly good. So from this I conclude that the original HP-100 plug, though it will fit, is wired differently and would have to be modified to be used with, say, an SRD-7 transformer box or with any of Stax's direct-drive amps. If you can get one cheap, ballpark $40 or less, grab 'em. You can't know how good they were back in the day unless you've suffered the sound of the dynamic headphones of the '70s era. If you can get 'em cheap enough, they may be top candidate for the Cheap Stats beauty contest.

i just bought a pair of the HP-100 with box and owners manual. It has a schematic with pinouts. They are indeed different from the STAX pinouts i have seen. The pins on either side of the bias pin are not the same channel. i would guess that Stax did this so that the RS stuff would not work with their noble equipment.
On another note, does anyone have schematic of the SRD 6 or SRD 7 to share? i would like to know what else is different.

 

[wualta]

Thanks for the confirming information. It's a disappointment but certainly no dealbreaker. In the $50 (less shipping) price bracket, they're The Deal as far as stat headphones are concerned. Still not the same out-of-the-head imaging power as the often similarly-priced Sony ECR-500s, but very good, solid, nonscreechy (which is to say, not even close to the Bass Lite electrostat stereotype) sound. And rugged, to go by the careless storage my pair's had. I have to take a shower after wearing 'em, but with some headband bending and a thorough disassembly and cleanup, they'll be winners.

 

[studeb]

further to the stax debate, i removed one of the driver units, and it looks identical to the ones for sale on eBaY from the person in Denmark.

http://cgi.ebay.com/STAX-N-O-S-SPARE...QQcmdZViewItem

And you could fabricate a Realistic to Stax converter quite easily.