January 19, 201511 yr My "new" old way to look strange during listening to the music ... ;-) I have also made some mod, it helps with the reproduction of lower bass. It is nice that new set of foams is still produced, but still waiting for delivery. Energizer is model PS2 with four transformers inside.
January 19, 201511 yr Can you help measure the exact dimension of the driver? Aren't there any dust covers on the driver? Wachara C.
January 19, 201511 yr Hello Chinsettawong I am your big fan since your first electrostatic headphones on http://www.diyaudio.com/ The whole driver is 9,32 mm thick and dimensions are 119x105 mm. The window with visible stator is 74x85 mm. The are dust covers, but different from those in Stax drivers. It is smooth and looks like mylar, but it is not. It is different plastic foil, very thin and delicate. It is very easy to damage them. Edited January 19, 201511 yr by Pirx
January 20, 201511 yr I've been on the hunt for years now after any of the older Ergo's, Jecklins and Koss ? floats but no dice. They are hard to come by. Edited January 20, 201511 yr by DefQon
January 20, 201511 yr I've been on the hunt for years now after any of the older Ergo's, Jecklins and Koss ? floats but no dice. They are hard to come by. Sad true I had luck and bought two pairs with one Power Suply PS2. One pair plays bright and light with bass, and the other plays with more bass and impact, but little less highs. Sound signature is far away from my Stax earspeakers, and this is fantastic. My wife said "there is more music in them" (in Jecklin she meant). Good news is there are spares for them at: http://www.quad-musik.de/html/spares.html New foams are for 38 €, and one new driver is about 170 € (pair for 340 €). But there is none new cables, plugs or sockets for this old Electrostat Try to search www.ebay.de for Jecklin Float. Price is almost always too high http://www.ebay.de/itm/FLOAT-JECKLIN-PS2-BOX-HEADPHONES-HEADPHONE-ECLECTROSTAT-/171594963370?pt=FR_Image_son_Ecouteurs&hash=item27f3db59aa Edited January 20, 201511 yr by Pirx
August 17, 2025Aug 17 Author Time for a necro bump but this arrived a couple of weeks ago: Naturally I bought them used as I always wanted to try these and well... they are some of the worst headphones ever made. Seriously... this is so fucking bad it isn't even funny. Now they barely fit my head so that might be a factor but they are somehow very peaky and dull sounding at the same time. Open baffle and all that but the sound is just all over the place. I'm sure these would benefit greatly from an adjustable arc setup and some earpads to close them up. Maybe something like the PMB units, an L-shaped pads at the back of the ears. At the same time I got these, I refurbished what might be the most disgusting SR-Sigma I've ever seen (though the drivers were fine), and they are much better in ever way. Super soundstage, nice extension at both ends of the spectrum and they just sound lovely off a SRM-313. Now I naturally had to rip the Transdyn box apart and well... It doesn't start well, this is the power switch. Yeah... one trace of something conductive and all hell would break loose. Bia Bias supply and why they have it half populated for 230V and then add more parts for 115V is beyond me. Just throw a transformer on it (also for safety). Speaking of which... Gotta love it seeing this trash in there. Rifa caps known for going bad and blowing up right on the mains. This set is fitted with a motorized RK27 but I didn't get a remote control with it. The sensor underneath the front panel. This is actual Transdyn module and I can't say it made much of a difference to me. Another angle. The actual power amp driving the transformer: Not sure what Icepower model that is, haven't looked into it yet. This is certainly a way of doing this... It's hard to tell but no insulation on the mains wiring here either. I don't know what to think about this setup but it does work but looks very silly indeed. I'm tempted to design something long the lines of a 4070 arc setup which would carry the weight and be adjustable as this is not comfy for me. The space between the arcs just isn't wide enough for me. This cable is super thin, roughly 5mm in diameter and to think of the voltage in there... I hope it is made out of something very insulated. Genuine Fischer plugs though these are not the special HV ones used on the HE90 Just normal pins and 12mm across so a S104 plug if I remember correctly.
August 18, 2025Aug 18 Author That's never going to happen and interesting to see the headband on what was probably a prototype.
August 18, 2025Aug 18 I had a pair that I bought and listened to once or twice for maybe 5-10 minutes, and then posted about them at Head-Fi, Bunch of people were interested in heading them so I came up with this brilliant idea of a floating pair of Jecklin Floats. First 10 people to sign up got on the list. Idea was that I'd send them out to the first person on the list, who could them listen to them for 2 weeks or less, and he would then send them off to the second person and so on. Had all of the names and addresses of the first 10 people who contacted me. Might have been a minimum number of posts requirement, or something like that to ensure that these were all honest and legit people. They were asked only to pay the shipping cost to send them to the next person, and to post their impressions on the thread. All good to go. So I sent them out to the first person, then forget to follow up on it to ensure that they were being passed along as agreed... And that was that. Gone in 60 seconds. Or 60 days, or however long it was until I got my head out of my ass and tried to see what happened. Never made it past the first guy. No idea now of even who that was. Should have started with known people. Oh well. Whoever it was is a royal cunt.
August 20, 2025Aug 20 On 8/18/2025 at 4:57 PM, Wmcmanus said: I had a pair that I bought and listened to once or twice for maybe 5-10 minutes, and then posted about them at Head-Fi, Bunch of people were interested in heading them so I came up with this brilliant idea of a floating pair of Jecklin Floats. First 10 people to sign up got on the list. Idea was that I'd send them out to the first person on the list, who could them listen to them for 2 weeks or less, and he would then send them off to the second person and so on. Had all of the names and addresses of the first 10 people who contacted me. Might have been a minimum number of posts requirement, or something like that to ensure that these were all honest and legit people. They were asked only to pay the shipping cost to send them to the next person, and to post their impressions on the thread. All good to go. So I sent them out to the first person, then forget to follow up on it to ensure that they were being passed along as agreed... And that was that. Gone in 60 seconds. Or 60 days, or however long it was until I got my head out of my ass and tried to see what happened. Never made it past the first guy. No idea now of even who that was. Should have started with known people. Oh well. Whoever it was is a royal cunt. I'll bet Reks' watch collection that the pair you donated to the cause now resides at spritzer's.
August 20, 2025Aug 20 17 hours ago, MexicanDragon said: I'll bet Reks' watch collection that the pair you donated to the cause now resides at spritzer's. Too funny! I very much doubt that and would never be dumb enough to fight him over it! 😅
August 21, 2025Aug 21 Author Hehe, this unit was never set to 115V so unless it was natively 230V, I'd doubt it. There are a few of these floating around out there though, at least 4 have sold in recent months and this one was by far the cheapest.
August 21, 2025Aug 21 I was hopping that the latest version will be a lot better than the old I still have ... and not using. Now my hope was killed by Spritzer, thanks!
August 21, 2025Aug 21 Author I aim to please!! I think these are old though... but can't find anything on them.
August 21, 2025Aug 21 The original Jecklin Float Electrostatic headphone wasn't much chop sonically - yes it had vast, bright dynamics, but at the expense of no bass whatsoever. Also, no-one in their right mind would wear these anywhere near a camera. They didn't hold a candle to any version of the Stax Sigma or Sigma Pro and so they were sold. The original ....and the reconstruction Edited August 22, 2025Aug 22 by John Buchanan
September 1, 2025Sep 1 You know if this topic is on build I get it , but sound and stage wise if classical off the charts very sensitive to source in an extreme manner. as a kid way way before most all here I’m guessing I used bookshelf speakers as headphones in bed lol later for headphones and my first source was tape back rhen they were cheap to buy the jecklin had little bass for sure much like Hifiman jade 2 lol met Mr j at a Hifi show many years ago too nice old guy
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