[Nocturnal310]

I saw some guy selling a headphone called HD1000 ...first i thot its a typo but he posted clear pics.

i was thinking if this is some another league of headphone from Sennheiser?

never heard of it before.

Notice the Springs on the exterior:

 

[Mc.Nick]

grado semi look alike

 

[Nocturnal310]

well apparently its Supra aural ..seems very world war type design.

i liked the leather Buckle on the headband.

shud i audition it?

alrite i found someone selling it long time back on head-fi also.. more awesome pics:

 

[Rednamalas1]

here are the tech specs. well manual anyways:
http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/old_manual.nsf/resources/HD_1000_charleston_49485_1092_Sp6.pdf/$File/HD_1000_charleston_49485_1092_Sp6.pdf

 

[RockCity]

Yes, a few members here know these phones. I have seen them a couple of times myself. If I remember they don't sound as good as the more well-known collectibles here.

 

[AJan]

Nice find. Looks very old school. Can be a rare collector's item.

 

[rapier84]

These been around for sometime now, special ed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Senn

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/rec...-today-181858/

 

[Audio-Omega]

Not something new from Sennheiser ?

 

[hentai]

So some guy from SIM university is selling these pair of retro looking senn headphone. SIM has such a box?

 

[jma790]

I wonder if their name come from a type of dance...

 

[stuge(original)]

How do these Sound ?in comparison to other high end Sennheiser

 

[ecclesand]

They almost look like some sort of medieval torture device. How do they sound?

 

[mofonyx]

Apparently sounds like the HD580, but isn't as good.

 

[Duggeh]

They're based on the old HD-435 IIRC. Those springs are purely cosmetic, they don't actually hold the housings in place, good thing too. Duderuud had a pair for a while but I'm fairly certain that he sold them on. I think that our favourite headphone nutcase on the Ratheon boat has a set.

They sometimes go for absolutely bonkers prices on ebay, or at least people try to ask such prices. Sonically they aren't worth much given their tech. Really for the collectors only, and even then they aren't super rare by headphone rarity standards.

Money best spent elsewhere unless you want the dubious bragging card tbh.

 

[krmathis]

Yeah, the HD1000 looks quite nice.
Its not all that common, but I have seen pictures here at head-Fi numerous times anyway.