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post #5896 of 21662
11/22/08 at 1:26pm
Congrats to Smeggy on the Wharfedale and Wualta on the HP-50A giant killers.And with Ludo and his kool YH-100 damping scheme,this morning is becoming ideal ortho prozac for the post YH1K fleabay debacle blues.
I wonder what the rest of the day will bring...
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post #5897 of 21662
11/22/08 at 3:29pm
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Originally Posted by yoginasser View Post
Congrats to Smeggy on the Wharfedale and Wualta on the HP-50A giant killers.And with Ludo and his kool YH-100 damping scheme,this morning is becoming ideal ortho prozac for the post YH1K fleabay debacle blues.
I wonder what the rest of the day will bring...
HP-50S
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post #5898 of 21662
11/22/08 at 3:30pm
hmm, maybe i should try horsefelt for vent damping in my yh-100 . . .

(felt horse blanket - 1/4" thick, medium density)
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post #5899 of 21662
11/22/08 at 3:37pm
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HP-50S
I stand corrected
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post #5900 of 21662
11/22/08 at 3:44pm
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Finally, so you can all snortle at these classic '70s icons, I present the giggling idiot


At least I don't see a mullet hairdoo, or was that the 80's?
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post #5901 of 21662
11/22/08 at 4:06pm
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Yay the Wharfedale! Only one thing lacks-- photos of the driver with that hand-drawn diaphragm and the string-and-leather magnets.

And of course, since the 'dale is the pioneering isodynamic headphone, about 5 years before any of the other known orthos or isos, we'd like to know its history, who designed it, etc., but I fear that info will elude us. That's sad, because someone over in Blighty had caught the Issigonis spirit of genius simplicity and managed to git 'er done. The 'dale is beyond Wallace, all the way to Gromit, British down to its socks. [stands to gives RAF salute with jelly spoon and Weetabix but faints from clamping force of HP-50S]

Fascinating that only the least and the most expensive iso headphones managed to get the damping right!

Back to that quiet place in Brooklyn for a moment-- the HP-50S comes to me in exchange for a Signet TK33 back-electret electrostatic. Be prepared for shrieks of "Where's the @#$% BASS??!" to split the tranquil Brooklyn calm.
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post #5902 of 21662
11/22/08 at 4:14pm

Thats it....time for some King Pickerbling recable lust!

First off,thank you ortho sensei dBel84 for you mad masterful skills and help
I will not pretend that I thought that recabling my beloved Pickerbling (thanks for the great name Smeggy ) will dramatically improve the SQ because of the majority of opinions regarding this subject on this thread,I just thought that using the Jena Labs ulrawire would look beautiful with the aesthetics of my favorite ortho headphones.That being said,the base is now noticeably deeper,it is even more resolute then before and the soundstage has busted wide open I can easily say that these are the best ortho headphones that I own at the moment.I used to prefer the YH-1 that I have from a SQ standpoint but in comparison they just sound veiled now,this makes me wonder what improvements theses cables will make on the yammy drivers?!
So without further delay....the money shots:

18AWG pure copper cable with Dayton plug and Cardas solder










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post #5903 of 21662
11/22/08 at 4:23pm
Ok, now wait a sec, who is on that last pic???
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post #5904 of 21662
11/22/08 at 4:28pm
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That being said,the base is now noticeably deeper,it is even more resolute then before and the soundstage has busted wide open I can easily say that these are the best ortho headphones that I own at the moment.I used to prefer the YH-1 that I have from a SQ standpoint but in comparison they just sound veiled now,this makes me wonder what improvements theses cables will make on the yammy drivers?!
What do I get for having preached the "recable your Yamas" mantra for the past few months?
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post #5905 of 21662
11/22/08 at 4:45pm
Wow, that last pic really spices up this thread...

Ok, now another "must-do" ortho mods... Hopefully it will never end.
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post #5906 of 21662
11/22/08 at 4:52pm
Wow, nice photo!....Yo-..Smeggy .
Also good lord that cryo cable + the pickering harness, blingest headphones around lol.

Ludo, gotta say your recabling looks awesome, I guessed right that they would be reveal themselves as slightly overdamped after the recable huh .

Great stuff on the thread, those giant Wharfedales are tres cool as well.
And it was Wualta who got the 50S! No idea if Wualta's is like mine, or even if dBel's are like mine, but they are awesome headphones. Its a real shame mine are in shabby condition.
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post #5907 of 21662
11/22/08 at 5:17pm
goddamit...i never knew ortho mods included those...i bet those sound great while doing the motorboat...
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post #5908 of 21662
11/22/08 at 5:30pm
Uhm, wow, I have seriously been underestimating the power of that Jena wire!
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post #5909 of 21662
11/22/08 at 5:45pm
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...the soundstage has busted wide open...
So without further delay....the money shots:
Awesome yoginasser! I must admit I didn't catch the foreshadowing in the beginning comments... I hope nobody minds that I quoted that pic.
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post #5910 of 21662
11/22/08 at 7:59pm
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So without further delay....the money shots:
OMG!!

It will take me years to get that picture out of my head, not that I want it to go away...

Can we assume this is a photo of the President of Girl-Fi, errrr I mean photo of the JL cable being modeled on the... Um, you know what I mean?
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