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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 17:51:57 GMT
Hi Guys, I ventured into the world of on-line auctions the other day and bought a job lot of 4 headphones which I collected today. The auction was for equipment from some now defunct BBC World Service studios so they should be reasonable standard gear I thought. TBH the main attraction was that one of the four was said to be a Beyer Dynamic. The Beyer Dynamic set turned out to be a 109 but it has a mic attached and a large 5 pin XLR type connector so I haven't been able to have a listen. I'll get them re-wired with a proper HP jack and get the mic taken off but I'm happy that they'll be great. Two of the others are Sennheiser HD 480s - they seem quite flimsy for serious listening but I've been very pleasantly surprised by the SQ - there seems to be a lot of clues to the recording environment that I have not noticed before with my other cans. The fourth set are labelled as Canford DMH285 - now these are totally new to me, I've never heard of such phones - has anybody else? Again I've been very pleasantly surprised by their SQ, and for the same reasons as for the Senn HD 480s. Much more robust than the HD 480s but very good with the recording environment clues. So, can anyone add anything to my virtually bone dry pool of knowledge on the Senn HD 480s or the Canford DMH285? TIA, Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 18:08:27 GMT
Yup,
Your sennys are from the 400 series (surprise huh) of which yours IIRC were the top model before the numbers shifted 500 series.
The baby 440 was a similar look in black, with pukey blue trim, next up was the 450 with red grills or mkii with reversed colours, then silver/grey & black 480s you have. All perfectly competitive at the time.
The Canfords are a new one to me too.
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Post by freddypipsqueek on Dec 6, 2012 19:31:33 GMT
I can't offer you much info but I did pull out my old HD480-II. And they sounded very dull. Canford made some of the BBC gear and particularly high impedance headphones for monitoring in the 1980s - I think a 120ohn version of the HD480s.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 19:49:23 GMT
Thanks Chris and Freddy, On further examination one of the HD480s has got 'CANFORD Audio' officially emblazened on it, together with 'LEVEL LIMITED AT 93dBa'. They are all the usual charcoal grey plastic except between the ear pads and each driver housing there is a thin turquoise blue plastic ring. These are bi-wired. The second HD 480 is a uniform charcoal grey (no turquoise rings) but has no Canford logo. It has been (semi-professionally) altered to single side wiring and a little black plastic box has been (green) cable tied to the outside of the head band just above the left ear piece bearing the legend 'BBC HEADPHONE LIMITER'. It seems as though I've bought a 'real bag o' mashings' but the plus side is that I've got 4 different sounding good quality headphones for not a lot of dosh . I've done a Google on Canford and it would appear that they make many headphones but aimed at the music industry rather than 'Joe Public' - perhaps Ian can throw some light on this aspect? Cheers, Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 19:57:05 GMT
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Post by gommer on Dec 6, 2012 20:17:23 GMT
Canford is an audio engineering distributor (PA, studio and the likes). I would think that if they sell headphones, it'll be re-badged OEM 'phones.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 11:53:04 GMT
Hi Dave, your DT109 appears to a microphone enabled lower impedance (50 ohms compared to 400 for the DT100) version of the DT100. I have the DT150 and after 3 or 4 months now, I'd have to say that you'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands. Mike didn't seem to like the DT100's much - main complaint being a lack of bass. Maybe your lower impedance cans might let the 'flavour flood out' a bit more. As ever, YMMV.rockgrotto.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=review&action=display&thread=4597
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 11:54:23 GMT
1700 ohms
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 14:52:46 GMT
Bluesboy, thanks for your input - all welcome . I can't say I notice any lack of bass with my 109s but it may be a touch 'boomy' - or that may just be me hearing the detailed reverberation of the strings or skins - I have some tracks that I previously heard as having very taught bass notes so I'll suspend judgement on that aspect for a while. FWIW I like silver interconnects and, as the DT 109s are modular construction, replacing all the cableing on them should be fairly easy so I've just arranged to have them completely recabled with pure silver wire. I'll post later whether the expense has been worthwhile . Cheers, Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 16:19:00 GMT
1700 ohms It allows headphones to be connected in parallel without damaging anything. You could also stick them on speaker wiring I guess!! They'd take something to drive them!! Dave's version is a bit lower.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2013 18:41:06 GMT
FWIW I like silver interconnects and, as the DT 109s are modular construction, replacing all the cableing on them should be fairly easy so I've just arranged to have them completely recabled with pure silver wire. I'll post later whether the expense has been worthwhile . Cheers, Dave. Dave, How did you get on with your 109's? Did you recable them and if so, what did you think of the result? Jeff
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