Originally Posted by RushNerd /img/forum/go_quote.gif "i eq'd up to 20 db of extra bass end into these and they just kept on going!"
Sounds like MY KINDA PHONES!!! Want
keep your ebay eyes open. they pop up regularly and usualy go for $20-50$ depending on condition and other bidders
Originally Posted by JadeEast /img/forum/go_quote.gif Akg k180 late 60s.
From the brochue.
"The SCS approach.
Subjectively controllable sound
This means: The acoustically effective auditory volume (ie the volume between the headphone driver and the eardrum) can be infinitely varied by a turn of the adjusting knobs; this feature allowing, for the first time, the individual selection of your "seat in the concert hall" and the adaptation of the sound to your individual physiological acoustic taste."
just got these chrome beauties. these pics dont do it justice. zero info on them. zenith headphones, open air type, volume controls, large magnet type speakers. so late 70s?
these actually arrived with a bad cable so i recabled it with a spare. sound is decent for the time. decent highs and mids, has a mid bass bump. a little of the distant sound of paper cone drivers but not too much
Yes, for my then 18 year old ears, they were great! I found that photo as mine went into the trash in 94. Now I use a pair of Sony MDR - CD 870s from the mid 90s.
I have a pair cd 870 too. do the red shifter mod from the cd1700 mods to them.(page was deleted) some dampening in back of the driver and foam removal from the front of the drivers. The cd870 sound like a fuller sony v6.
Originally Posted by DefectiveAudioComponent /img/forum/go_quote.gif A somewhat unusual vintage headphone. I'm still modding it, so I don't know yet how good it can be. Stock, it's underwhelming.
Originally Posted by Currawong /img/forum/go_quote.gif My first headphones were my father's Sennheiser HD-424's. I remember the yellow pads disintegrated, so i made some by cutting up bits of foam from elsewhere. The picture isn't of my pair, as they are in Australia.
Had a pair just like that from 1975 until they completely gave out somewhere around 1995. I had to make some foam pads as the originals only lasted about 15 years!! They were amazing phones!
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