Orthodynamic Roundup - Page 785

wualta knows what I'm talking about. All I have to do is tack some Hello Kitty stickers on both the T Amp and the electrostatic Floats and I'll become a veritable chick magnet. And yup, it's me, still being young.

I dislike buying "blind" because there's nothing worse than finding what I just bought sounds like junk so I try to make sure I know as much as I can about a headphone before I buy it, from impressions and whatnot. I assume you mean my ability to hear high frequencies is better, which I'm finding is true when comparing to most people. I definitely will let you know - treble extension/sibilance is the first thing I check for in a headphone, oddly enough.

I've never taken to EQ very well, both digital and analogue. Bass and treble knobs on receivers work decently enough with speakers but mess everything up with headphones, and I can usually tell there's something odd in the sound when I try using foobar2000's EQ, especially when I crank the bass up, since there's noticeable distortion. Maybe I need a proper EQ unit.

Seems like even the loosely tensioned bassy YH3 drivers weren't quite big enough to produce bass in such a large enclosure.

Aye, headphones that are hard to mod are such a turn-off for me. It's annoying enough having to continually disassemble and reassemble to test out mods, but if it's hard to do so, I just end up not doing it.

I only have a decent amount of experience with the YH100 and HP1 in terms of Yamahas, but reflections and weird resonances were what bugged me most about them. They were worse than on my T40, which is actually closed. It seems the YH3 also has similar problems, stock. I can see why the Euro method of damping was necessary to make the 3's sound good.

I'll put a plug in for Greg Ball's SKA Audio BassXT:
BassXt

I have 2 for my console refurb that will be going in soon. Unfortunately, Greg just moved to Malaysia, so his SKA Audio inventory is still sitting in boxes in Australia while he secures his work visa.

The tone controls on the Yamaha CR-620 work beautifully even with orthos, though I always tune and dampen with the controls at zero.

Trying some angled pads on the yhd2 - much better seal with less variability in bass with pressure on the cups. So far, so good.





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These look like some exotic candy I hope they sound sweet as well!

speaking of exotic, I couldn't get those gold nugget transistors of yours out of my mind today - kept popping up at the most inopportune moments!! is this why pole dancers are considered exotic? I digress ... yup there go those popping moments again ..dB

I was listening to my speaker system with gold transistors all day long today. Haven't listen to any phones in few weeks now. I think I will start again when it gets cooler in NYC.

I think there was an argument, and it escalated to the point where Hello Kitty lightsaber-dueled My Little Pony, winner became most popular. The learning curve was better for the Kitty because it was hard for the Pony's hooves to get a good grip on the lightsaber.

Leaps of faith aren't my style. Too many things can go wrong.

Yes, quite an annoying issue, especially since Stax decided to give up all of their previous designs except the Lambda frames and of course made the Omega 2. At least it's not an electret.

To be honest, even most dynamic headphones today can't handle either treble, bass, or both. It's annoying to have to decide what kind of coloration bugs us the least when looking to buy headphones. The e-stat Floats, which I've recently started listening to again, remind me again why I like them, especially for classical music: it's the only headphone (if you can call it that) I have that can actually put out a soundstage that is coherent, and it bathes the listener in oodles of warm treble, which does wonders for the upper harmonics, and has some serious rumble in the bass before it dies away at about 60Hz. Still needs modding, for sure, though.


Playing around with EQ is definitely the best and fastest way for me to determine deviations from a flat frequency response (flat according to my ear, of course). I think 5 band equalizers were pretty common in integrateds/receivers in the '80s. Yeah, the problem with bass and treble (and I guess mid) controls is the circuits connected to them aren't high enough order since they have to cover such a large range, so everything bleeds into everything else.

I've tried to wear a pair (cetoole's) and it is one of the most uncomfortable headphones I have ever tried in my life. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

So many layers of felt helps with the structural integrity (the drivers are no longer just loose in there), mitigates the effects of the weird reflex disc and overall backs of the cups, diminishes back wave and resonances, damps the vents, and of course damps the loosely tensioned diaphragms, all in one fell swoop.

OK, now I'm curious, what amp has the gold transistors and what transistors are they?

I am sure F2D will not mind me reposting his previous post

They are Russian KP902 transistors which form the heart of this little gem





One day east coast and west coast may meet up and I will get to hear it , until then ..... gold transistors will plague my memory intermittently

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Do gold transistors have good thermal stability?

Ah, very very sweet! Too bad they're rare.