Anyone want to purchase a classic?..
Inb4 they find out it’s harder to drive than an HE6 and needs (needs!) 1.3 W just to get listenable. 
LE:
OK, that was an exaggeration I vaguely remembered reading somewhere, but nevertheless they’re stupid hard to drive at 74 dB/mW and 120 ohms.
Ah, that was based on NwAvGuy’s highest target of 115 dB_SPL, which they need 13 W to reach. 
tbh if you are spending the outrageous price asked for those, then I don’t think you care how much power they need because you would happily cough up for a good amp.
I actually wish AKG would bring these back. Obviously with improved build, comfort and maybe a bit of modern tuning but just a touch.
For anyone that ever heard them, they know why. The sound is just very different from other things on the market,
Also someone might be able to pick up a pair from ebay for cheaper. A few ongoing bids sitting around 650 euro towards 800 pounds.
So maybe try there people.
If an updated version is what you’re looking for I think the closest thing is the MySphere design made by the original K1000 engineers, who no longer work for AKG: https://mysphere.at
1 Like
Considering how hard it was for me to drive my 55 ohm k240 to earbleeeding levels of volume and the 600 to e en listenable I can only imagine how hard that is to drive
since these have no pads and just kinda sit on your head are these actually earspeakers?
1 Like
At 3,300 Euro I think no. That’s just sheer stupidity prices.
an earspeaker isn’t really defined by not having earpads. Staxx are earspeakers and they have pads.
But as far as I know there is no clear definition for what an “earspeaker” means.
The only “definition” that can be found is Staxx’s reasoning for calling theirs earspeakers and not headphones.
STAX prefers to call its headphones “EARSPEAKERS”; such Ultra-High Fidelity devices for reproducing music can only be compared with the best loudspeakers, not other headphones. The term ”EARSPEAKER” is therefore more descriptive of STAX’s contribution to today’s most advanced level of sonic transduction.
Basically they believe that it is as close to speakers as headphones can get and only because of electrostatic tech.
Staxx did come up with the term. So whether anything other than electrostatics can be called earspeakers I have no idea. I think staxx might also have ownership of the word.
I know Tyll formerly from Innerfidelity (sad to see him leave the scene) did refer to them as earspeakers, but I believe AKG used to call them headphones, and I remember one place them might have called them headspeakers but that may not be an AKG official source.
Stax are not earspeakers. By every logic of how they’re built and how they fire sound into your ears, they’re headphones, plain and simple. K1000s and MySpheres, however, have a real claim to being called earspeakers due to the very different build and how they’re literally speakers hanging in open air and firing sound toward your ears rather than into them, channelled by earpad walls.
My comment was just a joke. Because they look like 2 speakers rather than a traditional Headphome