The Jecklin Floats thread

[Pirx]

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.

 

[Pirx]

... and driver:

[chinsettawong]

Can you help measure the exact dimension of the driver? 

 

Aren't there any dust covers on the driver?

 

Wachara C. 

[Pirx]

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, 2015 by Pirx

[chinsettawong]

Thank you so much, Pirx.

Wachara C.

[DefQon]

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, 2015 by DefQon

[Pirx]

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, 2015 by Pirx

[spritzer]

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.   

[Craig Sawyers]

And this is actually Mr Jecklin back in the day

And later in life

[TMoney]

@spritzer great post! We need that picture of you wearing them!