Submitted by Panchenima t3_z5grnf in headphones
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Muhmmdmahdii t1_ixwi2ku wrote
How can you even power it up? This shit is beyond endgame dude!
Nervous-Resort-7708 t1_ixxm1q3 wrote
It has been ended, the souls of marines are living inside.
Expensive-Crab7701 t1_ixwjkn1 wrote
Grado prototypes
NYCrucial t1_ixw6x4m wrote
100%
2E26 t1_ixwlp81 wrote
I have a pair of headphones like these. They have coils that make a thin steel diaphragm vibrate. They were used with crystal radios and vacuum tube receivers, as they have a much higher impedance (takes much less current).
They don't sound great for music, as they were made for telephone or morse code. They don't sound bad for piano music, though.
Panchenima OP t1_ixwpr0e wrote
Yes, i did remove the wiring some 25 years ago since the fabric was quite deteriorated and put modern ones but never get a clean result, i want to restore them in the near future with fabric sleeving wires and a TRS connector that i have and is period correct, the otiginal connector were banana plugs and the sound was mono.
2E26 t1_ixwq5iy wrote
Interesting.
I replaced the cabling for mine but they're wired in series (I intend to use them for amateur radio). I used ethernet cable, a TRS plug, and for fabric sleeving I pulled the core out of some olive green paracord.
I've been meaning to make some kind of stylized button to clamp over the Y part but never got around to that.
alexanderfry t1_ixy7ev6 wrote
Vintage Audeze! Nice!
ItDoesntSeemToBeWrkn t1_ixyxxym wrote
me resisting the urge to ask for a frequency response
Panchenima OP t1_ixz022w wrote
I can only find the impedance....4kOhm.
For what i remember they were all mids, absolutely no bass there.
ItDoesntSeemToBeWrkn t1_iy2bgls wrote
holy crap...
4000 ohms lol, wonder if you could somehow wire it into a modern dac/amp and see if it was any better
TheSodaPopGamer2312 t1_ixzc4wp wrote
Not endgame, endergame
R4K45H1 t1_iy2wfqa wrote
No, but those surely are in their endgame
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Fynniboyy t1_ixwellf wrote
I guess
G65434-2_II t1_ixwig5n wrote
Nah, more like the startgame!
Panchenima OP t1_ixvylpf wrote
This headphones were from my grandfather who worked as manager on a port, so i think it was used in a marine setting, they're too hard to drive since the sound comes from a nickel plated metal circle, the frequency response is quite tight but surprisingly clear for voice communication performing quite well 100 years ago on a radio communications station.