Orthodynamic Roundup - Page 436

Yes, and I can also see a need for less massive pads, mostly for dynamic type 'phones. The original T50 pads would've been perfect alternatives to the velour on the HD 600. They really were very high quality, just not the right kind of pad for our kind of isodynamic. But they'd be great alternapads for a bass-heavy dynamic.

I think weatherstrip makes an excellent DIY pad, especially if it's nice dense closed-cell foam. Did you ever show us a photo of the box that weatherstrip comes in? And tell us again: what sort of glue do you use to butt-splice the ends together?



Excellent work. If you don't mind, I may Photoshop and re-post some photos to show more detail in the dark areas. Looks like you've constructed the Canonical Ideal Ortho Earpad. And you're starting to show a healthy paranoia about bass backwave. That kind of paranoia always pays off.


You know, that's actually a good idea. The more mass concentrated on the surfaces of the pad, the better.

Wow! Where'd you find it? Or did one our ninjanistas find it for you?

Yaaay! I mean, excellent. And thank you.


Holy carp! That's hilarious and pathetic all at the same time! So much for hoping Fostex could help us. Thanks for sharing this; it will help harden us in our ultimate showdown with the outside world.


Wives always think you're completely nuts long before you suspect that they think you're completely nuts. It's part of the power sharing arrangement written into the marriage EULA (did you read yours? thought so).


Which is all that matters. The fact that you got some bass out of them without EQ is accomplishment enough for one lifetime.


With good earpads like yours (and a thin layer of felt on the inside of that screen in the HOK's back), I don't think you'll hear a difference. Any backwave blockage offered by that disc will be balanced by extra treble caused by reflections from it. But it's an easy experiment to try on the HOK, which is still the only Ortho Convertible I know of.


Couldn't have put it better myself. I like my HD 600, it's very pleasing and it's comfortable. But up against a properly damped planar, you can hear the compromises. Not that planars are perfect. It's just that what one type of headphone does better can teach you what must be done when it comes time to design the other type. The learning goes both ways.


Fear not. You are in fact adding to our fun! There's a lot of good things in the current Fostex line-- good magnets, good diaphragm voice coil design... Fostex just didn't seem to care to make them sound like we want headphones to sound until recently, and they didn't phone any of us to let us know they'd made a change (see customer service story above).

The bass won't be as deep as with some of the more capable older iso/orthos, but it will satisfy, and the treble is all there, if a little buried, in stock form. The thing to remember is, this headphone can be made significantly better with very little effort. But no one will blame you for enjoying them as they are now. Sometimes it's good to quit when you're ahead.

Just as the treble is buried in the stock T50RPv2, the modded YH-1's bass is also buried. It's there, just crank up the bass below 150--200Hz a little. Or a lot. It can take it.




Yup. My sentiments exactly.


Hee hee. Thanks goodness, this is the one time that won't happen. This headphone surely isn't perfect, but it's the perfect answer for anyone who is thoroughly sick to death of online auctions.

Smeggy! did Kabeer and Ludo club together and get you a T50RPv2? Ah, such a beautiful thing, Team Ortho, that has such peoples in it. By the way, my offer of a T50RP chassis still stands. Might come in handy for experimental control or parts mule.

Here's that slightly clearer look at DAC's handiwork: