Soundstage mod for Sennheiser HD-555/595 (Re-Mastered) - Page 3

noob question. but would this let more outside noise in? and would people around me get more annoyed from leakage?

u have a 555 and ur worried about leakage? 

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Originally Posted by kgomez1992 

noob question. but would this let more outside noise in? and would people around me get more annoyed from leakage?

To me, really no difference between modded and unmodded...maybe it allows a bit more noise in.

yeah im sorry im pretty new at this! i actually just bought a pair of HD598's today and well lets just say as far as leakage goes...... well there isnt a point in even talking about it haha.

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Originally Posted by kgomez1992 

yeah im sorry im pretty new at this! i actually just bought a pair of HD598's today and well lets just say as far as leakage goes...... well there isnt a point in even talking about it haha.

:DDD indeed.

If you bought a 598 I wouldn't touch them.

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Originally Posted by kgomez1992 

yeah im sorry im pretty new at this! i actually just bought a pair of HD598's today and well lets just say as far as leakage goes...... well there isnt a point in even talking about it haha.

Don't do it on your HD 598.

I've listened to them without the enclosure and the bass is too overwhelming. It killed all the details and clarity.

I've had my pair of 555s for more then a year now and have loved them oh so much.  I've been thinking of doing this mod for a few months and was deterred by the fact that I couldn't go back if I didn't like what I heard.  I then took the suggestion above to just take the drivers outside the housing to test the sound.  Man...why did I not do this sooner.

The sound has come out of the box it was in and sounds a lot more clear than before.  There was a little bit of punch lost on the low end, but it's well worth the clarity and improved distance of the sound for sure, especially if they are amped.  Just make sure that whoever you live with knows that what they heard before will be much louder :D

Dunno if anyone else has suggested this, but I used a variable-speed dremel to mod my 555's. The flex-shaft attachment made things much easier, but you could probably pull this off without it.

To prep, I put a small piece of clear tape over the holes on the backs of my drivers. If you've ever used a dremel on plastic before, you'll know that little bits of plastic get EVERYWHERE, and you certainly don't want those in your drivers.

To get most of the plastic grill out, I used a spiral saw bit, then used a grinder to remove the rest of it up to the outer edge. I cleaned the edges up with sanding drums and used a utility knife to get rid of the frayed pieces of mesh around the edge. 

The final product came out just as clean (if not a little cleaner) than the "perfect" image on the first page, so it was well worth the few hours of work it took to do this. 

Overall, I'm very satisfied with this mod. The improvement in sound quality definitely justifies the risk in this mod. At the cost of a little bass, the clarity of the highs and mids was significantly improved. I just can't believe that I didn't do this sooner, since I've had my 555s for about a year now, but was too scared to do anything beyond the foam removal mod until now.