[dynavit]

Yes it is.
There is a crazy story behind this headphone. The guy who sold it, has got the AMT as a present at his marriage. He didn't know anything about headphones, didn't have an amp, only a TV. But he thought, that this strange things are not comfortable enough for watching TV. So he packed it back in the ovp and sold it many forgotten years later for 15.-€!

 

[SHAMuuu]

Yes it is.
There is a crazy story behind this headphone. The guy who sold it, has got the AMT as a present at his marriage. He didn't know anything about headphones, didn't have an amp, only a TV. But he thought, that this strange things are not comfortable enough for watching TV. So he packed it back in the ovp and sold it many forgotten years later for 15.-€!

Is that the dynamic driver model or the Ribbon .. or is it electrostatic like the old models it's based on

 

[dynavit]

Is that the dynamic driver model or the Ribbon .. or is it electrostatic like the old models it's based on

Ribbon

 

[takato14]

Mad jealous. Still need to find one of these... largest AMT driver ever put in a headphone despite being the second one ever produced.

AMTs can freak out a bit in the midrange, and theoretically that should get worse with more surface area... but even the smallest driver (ESS Mark 1) has tactility and raw speed that is something else to behold. This coming from a stat user...

 

[Max Choiral]

AMTs can freak out a bit in the midrange

what exactly did you mean by that?

 

[HBIII]

Are the Sony MDR-7506 considered vintage yet? Can’t believe they came out more than 30 years ago lol!

 

[GREQ]

Are the Sony MDR-7506 considered vintage yet? Can’t believe they came out more than 30 years ago lol!

By most widely accepted definitions...
20 years = vintage
100 years = antique

 

[Philimon]

Nakamichi SP-7 and Grado SR60

Family resemblance is no coincidence. SP-7 uses a driver of similar origins and design as Grado HP-1000. Sounds like a vintage Grado! Plan to transplant driver to SR60.

Sansui SS-100

:>

edit: to show Nak suspension strap.

 

[GREQ]

It took me 11 years to find this one.

36mm ceramic titanium diaphragm
165g - super feather weight

This model has the Master designation, which I didn't know before I got it.


Colour coding!


Funky suspension design


Obviously soundstage is nothing special, just like all most-ear headphones.
Most other faculties are surprisingly good, bordering on the excellent.
Stock FR is the only weird part, but it takes tone correction shockingly well (I give it a health bass boost, and reduction in the mids).

Considering the driver size, the overall performance is great and among the better on-ear headphones I've heard.

 

[ludoo]

Nothing new, but had two of my 3 favorite headphones out and took a picture: the SR-Xmk3 I bought from Japan, who have SR-5 white cable and sound different from all my other SR-X (they are mids cannons), who knows which driver they have inside; and the TDS-15 which for my tastes are the best out of all the vintage planars I have/tried. As an aside, I find the Russian orthos a marvel of simple engineering: they were probably designed to be assembled by an unskilled and disinterested labor force, and this makes them a modder's dream.

Spoiler: bonus: measurements on my flat plate rig with my L500, including the inevitable Lambda seal issues in bass