Koss PRO-4 AA vintage headpones

If you want uber-kool 70's headphones, there's rally only one contender:

http://www.hifi-wiki.de/images/6/6e/...lectrostat.jpg

If on the other hand you want good 70's headphones that won't give you cauliflower ears and neck muscles like the Minotaur (unlike anything Koss ever came up with!), then again, there's only one contender:

http://assets.head-fi.org/6/69/800x6...+%26+SRD-6.jpg

Do you know, believe it or not, that's one thing I've never heard is a pair of electrostatic headphones. Somehow, they've always passed me by.....

I prefer the look of the Koss, though, although doubtless the Stax would sound much better :)

However, I'm still expecting the PRO4-AAs to be potential 'giant-killers'. Any headphones which cost nearly a week's wages for some people in 1972, and yet only cost £70 now, have to be high in the SPPV stakes! :cool:

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Marco

However, I'm still expecting the PRO4-AAs to be potential 'giant-killers'. Any headphones which cost nearly a week's wages for some people in 1972, and yet only cost £70 now, have to be high in the SPPV stakes! :cool:

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they were quite expensive taking into account you could buy say a Trio 'KA200A' amplifier for around £36 back in '72 depending where you went..get this though you could buy a Ferrograph Series Seven: '702D' for just under £300.00, that is an inequivalent of approx £3,000 these days :eek:

I've still got mine and also the Koss case to put them in. Bought them in 75/6. Haven't used them for ages so I'm going to have to get them out of the cupboard and see how they stack up to the HD650s I use now.....

Hi Ray,

That would be very interesting, so let us know how you get on :)

Andre, WOW... Shows the sheer the quality of Ferrograph gear!

Marco.

Aye sure does

Whoa.... Nice one. Thanks for posting that, dude - can't wait to get them now :)

Marco.

Here's someone from the 70s wearing Koss headphones. As a bonus to win a packet of chocolate cigarettes and some space dust, can you tell me what the turntable is featured?

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/2...allery02lg.jpg

;)

Marco.

These are mine:

http://www.wefurnish.com/esp62.jpg

Bloody uncomfortable and sonically not a patch on a pair of mid-priced Sennheiser headphones I once had (Don't remember the model). Unfortuately, a fault developed with the connecting lead on these phone, so I had to throw them away. :(

Are Koss still in business? Marco are yours original (NOS), or has someone out there started re-manufacture?

Regards

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Originally Posted by Barry

Are Koss still in business? Marco are yours original (NOS), or has someone out there started re-manufacture?

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This is what i'm worried about, if i wouldnt expect the same quality