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Their construction methods and materials make me believe they’re not worth much, look like inside you’ll find a little speaker with a whizzer cone. I agree that headphones with volume sliders are typical of very cheap headphones.
Slam us as you will, but with a title like Need help! And toxic comments though, you really aren’t here to make friends and won’t get much help.
As to being a professional etc., we’re all taller on the internet.
Slam us as you will, but with a title like Need help! And toxic comments though, you really aren’t here to make friends and won’t get much help.
As to being a professional etc., we’re all taller on the internet.
Help means, just that. Needing help doesn't mean I need people to post ignorant comments. Your reply was great information and then you felt the need to try and throw shade.
Well I think you found your answer, there is no information about them , so you can listen to the veterans from this site from whom you asked for help or you can see your own conclusions. Either way if you say you think they sound incredible then sit back and enjoy them , whether they’re $50k ultra high end cans or $2 gas station cans.
Audiofreak71
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swechsler
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I'll just add a few more comments. The styling and mono switch say to me mid 70s or earlier. Most Japanese-manufactured headphones made in the 70s, by and large, sucked (yes, I know there are a few exceptions, but none of them look like this). The construction looks very cheap. Chances are that these were fairly generic headphones OEMed by some Japanese company that none of us have heard of, and slapped with several different labels depending on who was selling them.
To the OP, If they sound good to you, then great, enjoy them. We're just evaluating these based on our years of experience with vintage audio. We're not professionals and we haven't had the advantage of actually seeing them in person or hearing them. However, we probably do have more experience and knowledge of vintage audio than you do (otherwise you wouldn't have made the post in the first place). Take that for what it's worth.
To the OP, If they sound good to you, then great, enjoy them. We're just evaluating these based on our years of experience with vintage audio. We're not professionals and we haven't had the advantage of actually seeing them in person or hearing them. However, we probably do have more experience and knowledge of vintage audio than you do (otherwise you wouldn't have made the post in the first place). Take that for what it's worth.
Volume control was popular for a while in the 70s. High end brands produced very similar headphones with Vol control. Also Japan was where almost any good audio equipment came from at the time. Technics, Realistic, Pioneer, Luxman, Accuphase, Sansui etc.
I was unable to find any information. This site wasn't really able to find any information. So I guess it'll remain a mystery.
Thanks.
I doubt they were part of some hearing test apparatus...the volume controls & stereo/mono switches would introduce undesirable variables. Might have been made for some long-defunct electronics or department store chain. Just wait...someone on here will pop up with an identical pair with a different brand name.
I doubt they were part of some hearing test apparatus...the volume controls & stereo/mono switches would introduce undesirable variables. Might have been made for some long-defunct electronics or department store chain. Just wait...someone on here will pop up with an identical pair with a different brand name.
Thank you!
swechsler
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Electronics, yes. Headphones, essentially no. At the time, most good headphones came either from the US (Koss) or Germany (Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic). Pioneer did make quite a few models of headphones back then (even some quad ones) but most of them were not what I'd call particularly good. The only really good headphones coming out of Japan at the time were Stax, and these are obviously nowhere close to those.
I have to agree, volume controls are not typically high-end, and the plastic fan baffles would be far from acoustically transparent so that alone to me indicates something on the level of Soundesign. I had Sansui headphones that had volume pots (not sliders though), they were definitely not high-end but sounded decent for what they were.
I did have a pair of Sennheisers around 1980 with volume sliders, but that was necessary due to the IR wireless design, some electrostats had volume controls on the cord IIRC.
I did have a pair of Sennheisers around 1980 with volume sliders, but that was necessary due to the IR wireless design, some electrostats had volume controls on the cord IIRC.
swechsler
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Really? IR headphones in 1980? I wasn't aware the technology was capable of it back then. Do you recall the model number? Back then, the only wireless headphones I was aware of were those with a radio built in.
It was a Sennheiser set, I don’t remember the model, they were $$$ though.
I bought them to disassemble, didn’t work very well unless the room was fairly dark, they were analog and if you turned toward a window you would hear static.
I tore them apart, used them for the transmit/receive to take the digital out of a modified CD player, beam it across my LR to my speakers which each had a 24bit B-B DAC and 20amp BB op-amp (flat DC to 100kHz, all military stuff) and a 1:1 power supply to reduce the analog chain and give me the audio power and accuracy that I wanted for digital audio (I loved the concept, but didn’t love the execution of early digital audio).
It was a short-lived experiment, even though I was using the transmitter & receiver as digital only (as they were dismal as analog) they just didn’t have the power to overcome hight ambient light levels.
I bought them to disassemble, didn’t work very well unless the room was fairly dark, they were analog and if you turned toward a window you would hear static.
I tore them apart, used them for the transmit/receive to take the digital out of a modified CD player, beam it across my LR to my speakers which each had a 24bit B-B DAC and 20amp BB op-amp (flat DC to 100kHz, all military stuff) and a 1:1 power supply to reduce the analog chain and give me the audio power and accuracy that I wanted for digital audio (I loved the concept, but didn’t love the execution of early digital audio).
It was a short-lived experiment, even though I was using the transmitter & receiver as digital only (as they were dismal as analog) they just didn’t have the power to overcome hight ambient light levels.
Bingo!
Missing the transmitter though.
Missing the transmitter though.
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Vintagebill1
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I have the exact pair of headphones. I also bought them from a multi millionaire estate. These musician headphones are absolutely amazing and I would never sell them. And yes I believe these are worth $1000 all day.
Vintagebill1
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I know many "multi millionaires", most of them have no stereo, no headphones, they didn't make their money sitting home alone listening to music.
