please help, question about AKG 240 hphones

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I have set as well. The problem is not the headphones, but the CD or whatever..... I think they are smething like 600 ohm impedance and take more power to drive them. Output power is a problem smaller playback units have. You are correct, will have better luck with volume on a cheaper pair of headphone.
 
I have a the AKG 240 headphones...and i have a question. when i'm listenin in a quiet area, they're great...but anywhere where there is background noise (outside, on the bus) i can barely hear anything, even with the volume on my cd player all the way up? what the deal? is it the cd player? i swear i've listened to louder stuff on a pair of crap ass headphones...please help!
 
Yo Professa Plum:]

Try a pair of Beyer 250 headphones. They come with 1/4 inch plug; the 1/4 inch plug unscrews to give you the RCA plug if needed.

They sound great. Cost: around 141 last time I looked. I have two sets and use them in my studio.

Cheers,
Green Hornet
 
And if I may add my 1 1/2 cents too,
try the AKG k66 they are only 32 ohms with
a 96 db sensitivity rating. These work and sound well with walkmans and c/d players.
Most of all they only cost 39.95 tops!
 
Professa, the AKG 240 is a high-end studio headphone. As with a lot of high end, accurate (audiophile-grade) speakers (yeah headphones are just miniature speakers), they are quite inefficient. That means they require a lot of power compared with cheaper units. I'm surprised you can hear them at all powered only by a portable CD unit. On my mixing board I have to crank up everything to maximum if I'm listening via my AKG's. If I had everything that loud with my speakers on there would be pieces of speaker cone paper stuck to the back wall of my studio.
 
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