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I remember this one: It was pretty shameless! Next page said "Make it happen", and so on.
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Haven't seen an original brochure since the early 1980s, but it's been reproduced in part in 2024's Audio Erotica by Jonny Trunk, Fuel Design, ISBN 978-1-7398878-1-0
 
respice finem said:
IDK if it applies to all models, but early Sennheiser had steel cables.
If you stepped on the cable, the headphones just unplugged themselves.
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I only use various Sennheiser wireless ones. I never had to worry about cables for headphones (except when I worked at radio stations from 1974-1986).
I rarely use headphones anyway. And my neighbors are too far away for me to have enough volume for the sound to get to them. (Even with 1800 watts available per Sub woofer X 2) and the windows open, I can sonically only reach about 1/3 of the way.
 
Audionaut said:
Koss was relatively unknown in Germany.
Most people who wanted headphones bought those.
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I think all the HD414s sold in the US were white with yellow cushions. Bach in high school I ditched a pair of gigantic Shure cans for a pair of these, and have never worn closed-back headphones since (except when I fly, for noise cancellation).
 
dr0ss said:
think all the HD414s sold in the US were white with yellow cushions. Bach in high school I ditched a pair of gigantic Shure cans for a pair of these, and have never worn closed-back headphones since
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I started out with the 424.
Together with the Philips cassette deck, it was my first hi-fi system. I was able to record using my brother's system.

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^^^^ ooooh. :)

... that Philips cassette deck echoes the design of the (short-lived?) Philips reel to reel consumer decks of the late 1970s.
If nothing else, they looked great! :cool:




(N.B. this is a US brochure & US product line -- Magnavox and Philips were sort of fused in terms of hifi products, at least those marketed in the US, for a while)
 
mhardy6647 said:
that Philips cassette deck echoes the design of the (short-lived?) Philips reel to reel consumer decks of the late 1970s.
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Yes, it had a very unique design that I really liked as a teenager. Considering that it was the top-of-the-line model and Philips was the pioneer of the system, the technology was actually more mid-range, with its dual-head design and standard drive.
It was no match for the Pioneer CT 93, the Kenwood KX 1100 HX, and the 9050S, which I owned later on.
The Pioneer was built like a tank, and the sound was really very good for a cassette deck; the Kenwoods were also very good, but not as solidly built.
 
Wonderful to look at the colourful adverts of the past. Given this group's vision of hifi fidelity, should advertisements include spinorama graphs, or an explanation of SINEAD numbers? ;)
 
she would not be like that in some of the dusty rooms shown elsewhere, with 800 miles of dangerous cables.
 
oh. while we're on the subject of sex sells -- and while I am 1) engaging in displacement behavior instead of working on our garden and 2) wasting bandwidth in this thread...
in case all y'all aren't aware of this old-school photoblog -- you might enjoy it. Especially on Fridays. :cool:
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