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Originally Posted by
calipilot227 
ohh man...now I wanna do this!!! :D How much did it end up costing you? (and of course, how do they sound?)
$5 atm, because I've only bought a Neutrik 3.5mm plug and still waiting for it to be shipped here. Once I receive the Neutrik plug, I will be recabling these phones along with 1/8 mono-variant braiding. The headphone housing and band was from a good looking $60 headphone I bought from way back in the day, took out the drivers, made the driver hole housing to 45mm to fit my other salvaged drivers albeit very good ones along with some mods I've done on them. Its using some cheap stock cable atm which will be replaced. I've sanded down the housing's from the previous silver to plain sanded black using the final 800 watersoaked grit sand paper, will be spray painting it matte black but then with enamel coating (which don't come cheap $18-20 a can) so it turns out with a shiny Piano black finish along with protection from fingers and scratches. Then I'm going to be making a custom cushion pad wrapped nicely with black sheepskin leather so it goes comfortable on the head.
As for the sound, without the housing and just the drivers on my ears with no isolation, the soundstage is very wide (thanks to the mod link noobfiikt linked on my other thread: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/508459/sr60-mod). The drivers were from a old studio monitor headphone can't remember the brand but they have been burnt in well over 2000hours, and so the drivers been moved to a new headphone housing along with other mods. I still need to do some mods to the housing for the driver because it sounds very distant and hollow with the drivers fitted in it. These headphones clearly have more bass then my UR40 which is also extremely modded, in terms of bass atm, I can compare them to the SR60 using the vent mod, plenty of bass, no sign of it interrupting the other mids/highs and not muddy at all.
As for the total cost spent on right now and (soon)
$5 Neutrik 3.5 mm jack
Free - 45mm burnt in drivers
Free - Heaps of leather (using black lambskin for this one)
Free - Headphone housing
Free - Using Cat5 cable or maybe some pure silver 22awg lying around somewhere?
Soon
$18-20 enamel coating spray for all purposes
$8.50 Matte Black spray
$13.00 8metre roll of 1/8 monofilament variant braid
$? Earpads (stock ones don't fit snuggly on your ears so decrease % of isolation/soundleak)
Total
Less then $50
Enough yapping from me.....more pics soon...just need the time...gonna start uni (college) in less then a week
Edited by DefQon - 3/8/11 at 7:11pm
