Heavy Grado Modding Project - Page 3

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you know, some people would actually pay some serious money for this kind of works...

Well I cant say i haven't thought about it. Maybe if i get over five orders it could be something.....

and how much would they cost?

Absolutely brilliant mod!

Fantastic work. But how wide are the headbands? In order to be comfortable, they'd have to be wide enough to have the HD25 paddings stuck on?

I guess logically - the portapro headband comfort is fine and that's just one metal band so I suppose it would be fine, I didn't think of that.

Anyway, it's a really fantastic piece of work, congratulations. 

Wow, that looks really slick! I'd be scrambling to give you my wallet if I were more interested in Grado's sound sig. Good work.

By the way, how come Grado phones attract so many more DIY guys than other phones seem to? I know people mod other headphones, but for the most part those mods just consist of recabling, new earpads/headbands, and new wood housings, but with Grados it'd probably be easier to compile a list of mods that HAVEN'T been done.  

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Originally Posted by loremipsum 

Wow, that looks really slick! I'd be scrambling to give you my wallet if I were more interested in Grado's sound sig. Good work.

 

By the way, how come Grado phones attract so many more DIY guys than other phones seem to? I know people mod other headphones, but for the most part those mods just consist of recabling, new earpads/headbands, and new wood housings, but with Grados it'd probably be easier to compile a list of mods that HAVEN'T been done.  

Grados are very functionally simple and are easy to take apart. The design has been around for a very long time, and many people have posted about how to take them apart, do some mods, etc etc. This becomes a snowball effect with people piggybacking off of other people's efforts (like Kramer and bilavideo).
 

Those look great.  Good work.

I don't see the purpose of this thread when theres 2 grado mod threads already.

On a side note, love what you did with the collapsible structure but I'll never be able to afford your price for it.

Did you sand the housing by hand? also, what type of glue did you use to stick the mesh on the cans. 

Much appreciated!
 

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Originally Posted by chippechanga 

First of all if you're new to grado mods you should look through these threads:

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/508459/sr60-mod
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/119314/post-your-grado-mods

 

About the grills.

I heated them up with a hairdryer before i removed them. This melted the glue so there weren't any plastic left after the removal. If you already have removed them, and there's still plastic left, you could try to warm them up again and remove the remaining bits, or you could use a dremel or something similar.

 

You should use some wire mesh made of stainless steel. If you live in europe I know a great website that sells it: http://www.inoxia.co.uk/rw/category/9.aspx If you live in America there's plenty of websites that sells it, just google "wire mesh"

 

About the sandpaper. 

By writing 60 to 1200 I mean the sandpaper the grit number of the sandpaper i started with, and the one i finished with.

 

Thank you for your questions it's only fun to answer them. 

 

Happy listening

Chippechanga

I forgot to add, did you polish the housing at the very end?