Need an inexpensive donor shell for my next project. Needs to fit a 55 mm driver.   Angled drivers/lofted earpads helps, but is not necessary if the housing is large enough.   Currently looking at the Nady QH560, maybe a used/broken HD600, SA1/3/5000, MDR-MA1/300, ATH-ADx00.  ...

Need to make some earpads. What's the best open cell foam for this and where can I get it? Amazon is proving useless but I saw some potentially usable stuff on eBay. I'd rather not waste a lot of money buying around if possible, though.    Cheers.

Simply, which headphones were the first you ever used? Excluding things like iBuds and the on-ear foam cheapies that come with walkmans, of course.   Mine were the KOSS K/6X Plus. Got them when I was 8, found them at a local garage sale for $5 and made my grandma buy them for me. Didn't...

These...   http://www.ebay.com/itm/111253804572?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1426.l2649   Never seen them before, tried to win them but a trader backed out on me so I got screwed over. Anyone have them or any information? Google is useless...

A bit of an introduction, I'm kind of a vintage headphone nut and I've been using the KOSS PRO/4AAA (original, 1976) for quite some time now, a headphone I still believe trumps most modern options in the $1-200 range effortlessly, and can get even better with modifications.   The 4AAA has been...

The Massive Vintage headphone Review Thread   My fascination with vintage headphones and vintage technology in general has led to the creation of this massive article. In it I'll be posting review after review of many of the rarer and more elusive vintage headphones as well as some of the more...

Yeah yeah, I know I'm pretty infamous for putting down all the T50RP mods and modders on this forum, and I'm probably going to get a lot of shıt for posting this. However, I have three SE-700s sitting around, one of which doesn't work at all, and I need to get rid of them. Rare as it is, I knew...

I just picked up a decent condition ATH-6 for dirt cheap... but without the energizer.   I know that some electrets can be driven without the energizer but as for these I'm not so sure. Anyone know anything about them? Can I reterminate them or fashion an adapter and use them with a regular...

I have quite a few rare (and common) headphones so I'd like a measuring system to assist in benchmarking their performance, without having to send them out to Tyll or someone else to test them for me.   A couple of members I know use REW V5 to do this but I don't know what other software is...

I need a home amp with extremely high current and gain. I need to drive the Pioneer SE-700 to its maximum potential, and that requires a monstrous amount of current. It also needs a considerable amount of gain; the Audio-GD SA-31 I tried was not capable of getting enough volume. I'm looking for...

Mainly looking for simple suggestions for my home rig. Final cost being $800 or less.   Currently in consideration are the following:   --KOSS ESP/950 --Fostex TH600 --HiFiMAN HE-500 --Sennheiser HD600   I also have the opportunity to get a Sansui SS-100 if someone will vouch...

I've been hard pressed to find a good synthetic leather to use for earpads, everything I've tried so far is way too stiff and hard to be used as an earpad. I need to make a new pair of pads for my SE-700s since their pleather has long since disintegrated and flaked off.  Can anyone help me out?

I think that I'm severely underpowering my K240 Studios and that's part of the reason why I can't stand to listen to them. I'm willing to take a chance on an amp for them as I need one anyways.   I have an E7 so I have been looking at the FiiO E9 pretty much exclusively (as I won't need to...

I think one of my old sets has a channel imbalance. It could also be that one side of the unit isn't sealing properly due to a malformed earpad. I don't know which it is. One side sounds hollow and brighter than the other. They ARE single-sided so a channel imbalance is very possible. How can I...

Ok, so some of you have probably heard of that awesome little PocketPC, called the Pandora, that's used for emulating older consoles and things like that.    One thing you probably didn't hear however, is that an audiophile was on the development team for the handheld, and put some extremely...

I just received a <beautiful> pair of Pioneer SE-700s. I am absolutely in love with them, both looks and sound.   However, merely one day after I got them, the headphone side of the cable began going out. I desperately need someone to recable them, but they're so hard to work with I can't...

These: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BCJVVG/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_3?ie=UTF8&smid=A3QE6AQWT6LP41   Anyone know anything about them? I've seen them somewhere before but I just don't know where, and I'm curious as to what they're like.

I recently bought a pair of Pioneer SE-500s, a power-hungry piezoelectric beast. Nothing I have has anywhere close to the output power needed to drive these things properly. I need a good speaker amp that will put out enough power for these headphones. They're most likely equally or harder to...

I need to re-fabricate earpads for an old vintage headphone on which the earpads and headband are worn-out.    I had been looking at some vinyl/pleather but I've heard that pleather doesn't breathe very well. Maximum comfort is the goal here, because the headphones are painfully...

I need replacement earpads for a pair of old headphones I have. They're not T50RPs, they're an old vintage set for which pads no longer exist. If at all possible I want to have to avoid having to make my own earpads for them, and the T50RP's pads seem like they would fit.   Someone who has a...