Paul Winkler wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:30:36PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > >>That's true, and because of this, AKG isstill selling out the older >>models very cheap. I got my own 240DF for little money. 240DF is the >>the reference headphone at german radio stations. I see them >>everywhere at work. Still for our PCs at work, we bought the lower >>resistance newer AKG-140 models, because the directly plug into the >>soundcard there. > > > FWIW, I've had no trouble driving my 600-ohm K240 phones > directly from a consumer soundcard, or anything else. > I guess it depends how loud you want to go, for me it's fine. > I don't know if the efficiency is the same with the various 240 models. > (K240, 240DF etc). I had a pair of K141's, and I had to crank the headphone control on my mixer to 10/10 (with per-channel levels at 0 db). With 271S's and anything else, louder than 5/10 is actually painful. But, I really loved the sound of the K141's as well (they fell apart eventually). By the way, is any old leather softener fine for the ear pieces? I find that the hardened leather hurts my ears after a while. Chris
