Sennheiser history with images?

[Raymate]

Does any know of a web site that has a history of all Sennheiser models ever made, I had three pairs of early Senns which I no longer have and was trying to rember the numbers.


One pair was just bad so in went in the bin a few years back.

My very first the headphone cord went very sticky and the pads feel apart, just put them in the bin too and that would have been about ten years ago.

And the final pair I think I may have still but cant find them!!

R

 

[gshan]

try the gallery link in my sig

 

[Raymate]

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Originally Posted by gshan try the gallery link in my sig

Thanks, I found one pair HD455... well they look like them anyway

 

[sgrossklass]

From what I know:
HD414: 1968-? (1979?)
HD424: ~1976..1979
Early 80s: HD400 (old), HD414X, HD420, HD424X, HD430
Mid-80s (~'84..87): HD410, HD410SL, HD414SL, HD420SL (apparently the '430 still was the top model then?)
~'87..'92: HD440, HD442, HD450, HD480, HD520, HD530, HD540, later HD560
~'92...'95/'96: HD442 II, HD450 II, HD480 II, HD5[2|3|4]0 II; HD3x0 must also be about from that time
~'94/'95/'96..'99: HD435, HD445, HD455, HD465 (old), HD475, HD525, HD535, HD545, HD565; HD580: '94..present.
The later years should be documented well enough.

 

[mart242]

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Originally Posted by Raymate Thanks, I found one pair HD455... well they look like them anyway

holy crap. what a coincidence. I've got an old pair of sennheiser I want to replace (the foam is too thin now and it hurts my ears). I was wondering what model it was and I've looked at the gallery too. Well, they are HD455 too!

 

[Citizen Z]

Thats a cool site, gshan. I was wondering about the HE90's and why they're $14,000 MSRP. Why are certain headphones so damn expensive? They certainly don't cost that much to make. Unless their drivers are made of platium or diamond or something.

 

[Raymate]

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Originally Posted by mart242 holy crap. what a coincidence. I've got an old pair of sennheiser I want to replace (the foam is too thin now and it hurts my ears). I was wondering what model it was and I've looked at the gallery too. Well, they are HD455 too!

Cool... I cant find mine now, I saw them a few months ago in a box and now I cant seem to find them. I wanted to try them with my Amp as I have had one for about two months now and it made my HD200 sound better, so thought it may do that with my older cans.

R

 

[Senn20]

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Originally Posted by Citizen Z Thats a cool site, gshan. I was wondering about the HE90's and why they're $14,000 MSRP. Why are certain headphones so damn expensive? They certainly don't cost that much to make. Unless their drivers are made of platium or diamond or something.

The amplifier is 2/3 of that cost.

The headphones themselves cost just under 5 grand, but you can spend $80,000 on a pair of floor standing speakers. When you think of it that way, they're relatively cheap.

Consider other things you can blow $5,000. You can buy a piece of crap car for that, and I bet the stereo doesn't sound 1/1,000,000th as good.

 

[fewtch]

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Originally Posted by Senn20 Consider other things you can blow $5,000. You can buy a piece of crap car for that, and I bet the stereo doesn't sound 1/1,000,000th as good.

Hey, I always buy cars to sit around in and listen to the stereo

.

 

[Mano]

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Originally Posted by Senn20 The amplifier is 2/3 of that cost. The headphones themselves cost just under 5 grand, but you can spend $80,000 on a pair of floor standing speakers. When you think of it that way, they're relatively cheap. Consider other things you can blow $5,000. You can buy a piece of crap car for that, and I bet the stereo doesn't sound 1/1,000,000th as good.

And i was using cars to go to places.... foolish me, i dont get my priorities straight

 

[bahamot]

Sorry for OT, but what's the published year of AKG K501? Thanks.

 

[Veniogenesis]

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Originally Posted by bahamot Sorry for OT, but what's the published year of AKG K501? Thanks.

1996 I believe.

Regards,
Venio

 

[Krause]

rofl I buy cars to sit in them and listen to the radio

I love this place. Anything to justify spending un godly amounts of money on headphones.

 

[pecanu]

What about the HD 110 I think they were the first headphones Sennheiser produced.

 

[trgz]

Necro-ing the thread... I just bought a pair of HD600s and seeing the little connectors that go into the cans themselves reminded me of a 400 series phone that I once had - I've had a google around and they weren't 455, 424, 414, 495, or 435s, but I finally found them - the 430. But I was wondering if there were any better means to finding older models as I vaguely recall a pair from even further back but can't be sur if they weren't just a yellow-foamed lookalike in the late 70s(?). I couldn't find any link in gshan's sig