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Koss KSC75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« on: April 20, 2012, 05:58:53 PM »

Koss KSC75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
Tonally, these remind me of HF-2s a little bit.



Lots of pounding high bass and a little strong in the upper mids. Sort of a poor man's HF2.
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2012, 06:06:59 PM »

I think this is very respectable for a $16 can!  8)
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2012, 06:09:40 PM »

I think this is very respectable for a $16 can!  8)

I agree. Not too bad for the price at all.
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2012, 06:15:08 PM »

They look pretty darn fast and clean!  I prefer these to a lot of much more expensive headphones.  ultrabike, you're not alone on that one!  Though I haven't listened to mine in a while because the left side went out.  Koss warranty isn't really worth it for these things. 
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2012, 06:16:37 PM »

They look pretty darn fast and clean!  I prefer these to a lot of much more expensive headphones.  ultrabike, you're not alone on that one!  Though I haven't listened to mine in a while because the left side went out.  Koss warranty isn't really worth it for these things.

My right side went out a couple of years ago. I tried to half ass it and reflow the solder where the cable entry goes into the earpiece to no avail. I liked them a lot as well.
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2012, 06:23:10 PM »

Mine were recabled with something schitty so that could be to blame.  I actually preferred the ksc-35 back in the day but they were prone to getting rattley after a while.  They were warmer though, I imagine they'd measure smoother and more neutral.  Would be interesting to see.  I'm suspicious that the titanium coating on the ksc-75 was done for durability, not SQ. 

I love using the ksc-75 for comparison on head-fi.  Always fun to say that I prefer them to a 1k flagship.  :-)
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2012, 08:00:09 PM »

Don't they need the Karmer quarter mod??   ???
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2012, 10:03:02 PM »

Don't they need the Karmer quarter mod??   ???

I think that takes them from HF2 to RS1.   :'(   

I'm actually surprised these measured this bright, I never thought of them as being particularly bright or bassy.  But it's been a while, as I said
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2012, 10:08:03 PM »

Yeah, the graph doesn't look bad for such an inexpensive headphone. How bad is that 5K peak?

Do these sound the same as PortaPros, or are they different? Always thought the PortaPros looked cool and retro -- but was surprised to see they cost twice as much as these KSC75s.
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Re: Koss KSC-75 Frequency Response and CSD Waterfall Plots
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2012, 10:46:30 PM »

The SportaPros have KSC-35 drivers in them. But they do not sound like KSC-35
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