Koss ESP-950 Electrostatic Stereophone

Average customer rating: 4.5

Not much of a big deal
Extremely Pleasing Transcients
This is one real good stereophone. Stereophones. Plural.

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Koss ESP-950 Electrostatic Stereophone

Manufacturer: Koss
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000056ULH

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Product Description

New advances in materials and design have served to expand the performance of Koss products. The company's product development team and engineers look for the most innovative combinations of existing and new technologies to deliver the most exciting products possible.Koss ESP-950 model incorporates state of the art electrostatic transducers that operate on currentless electrostatic charges on push-pull capacitor plates to cause movement of the intervening, low-mass semi-conductive diaphragm. It also features soft, vinyl closed ear cushion design for better isolation.

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Audiophiles seeking the best headphones money can buy should definitely consider the Koss ESP-950 electrostatic stereophone. The headset uses state-of-the-art electrostatic transducers rather than the fiber cone drivers typically used in headphones and loudspeakers. These transducers operate on currentless electrostatic charges with push-pull capacitor plates to induce movement in an intervening, low-mass, semiconductive diaphragm. That's a technical way of saying that these ear pieces are highly sensitive and very responsive to minute fluctuations in audio, rendering your music with delicacy and warmth, and with microdynamics--tiny fluctuations in the musicians' output level--intact. The stereophone uses a soft, vinyl closed-ear design for sonic isolation and includes a battery pack, a leather carrying case, connecting cables, and a 120-volt AC adapter.

Customer Reviews:

Not much of a big deal.......2007-05-26

It's hard to properly review this headphone system since Koss had an awful little $10 budget portable CD player hooked up to it at CES. However, it definitely sounded far too bright. I also found the construction to be very cheap: lots of plastic and a feel of low cost mass production. The volume and balance knobs are imprecise and inconveniently placed on top of each other. I'm sure the diaphram probably is indeed very fast and revealing, but I can't say I was impressed beyond that.

Extremely Pleasing Transcients.......2003-02-27

I bought a pair of the ESP 950's in 1994 from a wholesaler for 495.00, I have collected high end audio gear my whole life and have several complete systems; however night time listening can
make your family very hostile...so I use these for stealth listening of my SACD and Hybrid Surrond encoded DVD's and Cd's.
The transcients on electrostatic phones are amazing, they tend to be a little bright with standard supplied connects, so I use my Transparent Audio Music Plus RCA inter-connects to the koss
E 90 unit which come with and runs these babies. Shear heaven!
I have been thinking of having some one build me a tube headphone amp for these headphones...then my family would be hostile again ..cause I would not want to go to work anymore.

This is one real good stereophone. Stereophones. Plural........2001-04-26

Real good and real expensive. What else can you say?

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