[ARC5] Headphones H-43 B/U

[Tim]

Hi Ken - do you get DC continuity through them?  Maybe one of those very
fine wires broke inside the coil - but there is enough capacitance between
all those turns to conduct some signal.  I had a pair of Brandes HiZ phones
that had that problem....
Tim


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> I have a set if the subject headphones. I was told when I bought them
> that their impedance is 20K. These are brand-new.
>
> Trying to use them with any of my rigs shows very low output levels. I
> tried to connect them to the FT-890 through a 5K to 4 ohm transformer,
> and the levels were even lower.
>
> So what ARE the specs for these?
>
> Ken W7EKB
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