[MorbidToaster]

All the things we love come from suffering. 
 
Mostly suffering from the Chinese, but I'm glad to know that we're an equal opportunity suffering hobby. American, German, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
 
Who cares what color you are...as long as you're suffering for our sound...I salute you!
 

 
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Many engineers lost sleep over it, some lost their minds. Rumor has it that Jan Meier went catatonic after first hearing it, he laid in bed for weeks and kept mumbling something about impedance and crossfeed.
Even now I feel guilty listening to my HD800s knowing that the sound I enjoy comes at the expense of so much suffering

 

[anetode]

Geez, more like MasochistToaster

 

[.Sup]

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Many engineers lost sleep over it, some lost their minds. Rumor has it that Jan Meier went catatonic after first hearing it, he laid in bed for weeks and kept mumbling something about impedance and crossfeed.
Even now I feel guilty listening to my HD800s knowing that the sound I enjoy comes at the expense of so much suffering

haha loled

 

[Anaxilus]

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What if you were listening to crappy £100 instruments live? 
 
Yes you want your headphone to sound like real life, but in real life what sounds better £5000 violin or £20,000 violin? £3000 piano or £40,000 piano? Even real life instruments have a subjective quality.

 
I think I get what you are trying to say but that is quite the stretch.  Even a cheap instrument sounds like the instrument.  A bad headphone can make a drum sound like a recycle bin and cymbals sound like wood.

 

[Windsor]

^ ...and any decent headphone quality setup will take you to the heart of the music playing when you stop analysing, allow your thoughts to pass, and just enjoy the listening experience.

 

[vo_obgyn]

Hi Windsor,
 
As good as the Anaxilus mod is, I also found the HD 800 and the Moon Audio Black Dragon V2 cable to sound best without the Anaxilus mod. The treble sounds better and there is good bass without the "muddiness" that some people have observed with copper cable. Anaxilus said in an earlier post that he is working on another mod for the HD 800. I am looking forward to seeing how the mod will be received.
 
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Update (~3.5 hours later): I removed the Anaxilus mod and am utterly amazed at what I'm hearing! There's now a more realistic weight and timbre to instruments and crystal clear treble without seeming fatiguing. The Black Dragon cable is like a tone control for the HD 800 (without the distortion) that retains the sonic clarity of the stock-cabled HD 800 and reduces the brightness to a more "natural" setting. I'm honestly currently experiencing what is probably the highest quality headphone experience I've yet had. Wow indeed! 

 

[davidgotsa]

Muddy? The HD800? 
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The treble sounds better and there is good bass without the "muddiness" that some people have observed with copper cable. 
 

 

[SONIC BOOM]

dose anyone know a good way too fix paint scratches?

 

[OPrwtos]

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dose anyone know a good way too fix paint scratches?

yes, paint over it.

 

[sphinxvc]

Scratch against silver sharpie.

 

[SONIC BOOM]

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Scratch against silver sharpie

thanks, I was trying it before and I figured out it was because I was using the silver paint sharpie, the regular non paint silver sharpie works much better. But would anyone know of a service like colorware that lets you send in your products?(colorware stopped letting people send in there stuff its buy new only now)

 

[Windsor]

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Hi Windsor,
 
As good as the Anaxilus mod is, I also found the HD 800 and the Moon Audio Black Dragon V2 cable to sound best without the Anaxilus mod. The treble sounds better and there is good bass without the "muddiness" that some people have observed with copper cable. Anaxilus said in an earlier post that he is working on another mod for the HD 800. I am looking forward to seeing how the mod will be received.

 
I agree that the Black Dragon + HD 800 sounds 'better' without the Anaxilus mod. I'm still amazed at it actually; it's the most awesome headphone experience I've yet had (and I've had a few of them).
 
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Muddy? The HD800? 

 
With the Black Dragon aftermarket cable, which made of copper and adds more warmth in relation to the stock cable, and the anaxilus mod, I definitely detected a little muddiness in the bass which was reduced when I removed the mod. It really sounds amazing now.

 

[archigius]

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I'm now listening to the HD 800 with a single-ended Black Dragon cable (thank you, R) and I'm quite impressed. Compared to the stock HD 800 cable, the Black Dragon has tamed the HD 800's treble and beefed up the bass; recordings are now sounding slightly warmer but not to the point of being muddy. Listening to The Nightfly by Donald Fagen sounds more laid back and less in your face and much more easy on the ears than with the stock cable with no audible loss of fidelity at time of writing.
 
What a welcome audio chain component the Black Dragon is so far; I look forward to more sonic explorations!
 

I'm experiencing something similar with a OCC copper cable made by Toxic Cables (my impressions here).
 
The difference is noticeable, the music sounds much more natural, more real-life to my ears.

 

[TWIFOSP]

I have yet to hear a cable that made a significant difference for me, but due to the hype machine here I just bought the blackdragon v2 for my hd800s.   Here's hoping!

 

[davidgotsa]

Let us know what you think of it after some blind testing. 
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I have yet to hear a cable that made a significant difference for me, but due to the hype machine here I just bought the blackdragon v2 for my hd800s.   Here's hoping!