THOMSON HED 430

THOMSON HED 430 

This is a special headphone case of the failure product listing. It has been bought at least 6 years ago with the  scope to be used with our television that is 3-4 meters far as its cable is really log , very  logs about 5 meters!

The design is similar to the AKG deign  with a belt below the main skeleton. Nice design and not tough to the ears as the the previous  posting of the Sennheiser model . the only difference  is the very thin plastic deign that seems  to be easily breakable . The phone sleeves  have a different feeling than the others with also a strong sense  of plastic that seems a  bit annoying


Once again   the first plus is the cable length . It is ca 5 m . The cable used is double possibly coaxial as with the Sennheiser head-models

Another very interesting with it , is the built in-line  attenuator that quite close to the  headphones

A third  also more interesting is the provided plug adapter from 3.9 to 1.9 mm as below

But here the interesting pros stop

The sound is very bad. tested  with the Carrefour  earbuds/EAR 23  (here is as a reference ). the sound level  is same as with these earphones . But they sounded quite bad : they lack  soem bass (as shifted  upwards )  little treble and sound as plastic.

I think that  the oly of value for these  earphones is .... the adapter !!!! You normally  cannot find easily this type of adapters.  The main base /socket is too short from the similar adapters  and very good for using it to my R75 ICOM receiver !!

Therefore : 4/5  for the whole set 2/5 for audio