What Can Has Been Around The Longest?

[CVTC]

What is the longest current production run of a headphone?

What is the "The Price is Right" of heaphones? What is the VW Beatle of headphones?

 

[philodox]

The K240 in its various incarnations perhaps?

 

[CVTC]

The Koss Pro 4AAT perhaps? Make that the Koss Pro 4AA in its various forms.

 

[ayt999]

according to this timeline at beyerdynamic, possibly the DT 48?
http://www.beyerdynamic.com/com/comp/history/cont.htm

 

[rickcr42]

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The Koss Pro 4AAT perhaps?

One version or another has been around for a seriously long time and my first exposure to headphones was a pair of KOSS PRO 4xx cans in 1970.
I know that around the same time there where also studio cans by AKG,beyer and Sennheiser but they were not in widespread use and very hard to obtain.The model numbers did not migrate as in the koss example (just adding 4s or letters) so mabe not purely a "current" production run like the Pro 4

 

[philodox]

Is the DT 48 still made?

EDIT: I see that it is... impressive.

 

[CVTC]

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Originally Posted by ayt999 according to this timeline at beyerdynamic, possibly the DT 48? http://www.beyerdynamic.com/com/comp/history/cont.htm

Yeah that might be it, since 1937 I read.

 

[CVTC]

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Originally Posted by philodox Is the DT 48 still made?

Beyerdynamic makes the DT48 A.00 currently for studio use.

 

[CVTC]

Anyone can pick up a pair of DT48 A.00s from here for a mear ~$285 shipped (Con./US).

 

[kramer5150]

My first real can was a koss pro4X plus in 1986.
Prior to that I had a senn portable of some kind, I forget the HD model number. It looked a little like a PX100.

Garrett

 

[gpalmer]

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Originally Posted by CVTC What Can Has Been Around The Longest?

I'm guessing Hirsh has one of the older ones if you mean absolute age but it's either Jude or Neil if you just mean around Head-Fi...