I think it's awesome you got so many vintage headphones and had Tyll measure them. really did a service for the community. However, seems like most measured poorly and you weren't keen to keep them.
@Azteca No. Tyll measured my headphones without getting a proper seal with any of the good ones. He also disregarded all the info sheets I sent with the last batch of vintage gear he measured for me and spread misinformation about the vintage gear I sent. And no I will never stop being upset about it! The SE-500 is PIEZOELECTRIC, not planar magnetic!!
Promptly thereafter, I built my own measurement rig and started building a database for it. I also started a vintage collection. I now have the greater half of the past 60 years worth of siginificant developments in headphone technology in my closet and daily an SR-Lambda Signature.
HD800 has been forsaken, having left my stable a few years ago. But I may rebuy one cheaply to toy around with mods for it. ;)
@Azteca The AT-706 and other models from this time period were from the period where AT's headphone division was just starting out, so they're just cheap OEM drivers in their own housing. AT did not start making their own driver designs until the ATH-5 and ATH-6D, which are 53mm dome drivers that share much of the same DNA as the modern Art monitor series (ATH-AD5/7/900/X and such)
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