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How do vintage legendary headphones stack up against today modern totl headphones? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by zeus1001@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
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There must some guys here who had a chance to hear some of the headphones i'm thinking about, and i was wandering how do these headphones stack up against today flagships. Headphones i have in mind are AKG K1000, Sony Qualia 10, Sony mdr-10, Grado HP1000, Stax SR-Ω, Sennheiser he-60 I'm wondering how are these headphones in comparison to today's totl headphones.

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[–] Individual-Ride-2496@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I grabbed an old AKG K340 for 100USD and while I cannot compere it to TOTL headphones but it still beats headphones in terms of technicalities under 500USD (IMO). Some claim they are as good as HD800 but I never heard them so take that with a grain of salt. Also the tuning is intresting, you like it or not, but I would describe it as natural and the bass is nothing special. I'm still surprised how good they sound even after 40 years.