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Any reasons why it'd be louder and more meaty with hq?
I'd guess... more quality without necessarily sacrificing battery life would force them to roll off the highs in order to attenuate high frequency interference coming from the bluetooth module.
This would essentially have an EQ effect on the rest of the frequency range -> more bass and more midrange -> louder.
But that's really crack-pot theory at best. Without actually seeing at least a schematic, I'm as blind as a bat.
Yes, I think I have a talent for screwing things up, no problem there
No seriously, I apologize, I had not read your modding post well (it should be sticked to the first post) so I thought it was more a soldering mod, and I am too lazy for those things.
For the materials, I meant, can you say why did you choose those? Which else did you try, and what difference did you see? I live in EU so I am not sure I want to order those things from US. More info could help me find a nice alternative.
About Aptx on Mac, where did you read that Mac support Aptx?
My informations are that no Apple product supports Aptx because Apple does not want to pay the license to CSR.
I think that Aptx is not just something software. I may be wrong but I think it needs also a special hardware, I am not sure if a BT chip produced by CSR or what. Maybe you know more.
But the fact is, I think that Apple wanted to support Aptx and there is this possibility, and on some OS people can even read Aptx, but there is not yet real support behing.
It is like a door with a name on it, but the room behind the door is empty.
This is what I have understood.
If you have different info I would be happy to hear them. Better would be if with some proof or link. So I can give better suggestions to owners of Macs when I suggest them BT Headphones.
About what you wrote for the negative feedback: I think I like you.
EDIT: oh, sorry, this was a positive feedback.
But I meant it so
Oh, no problem at all.
Here's how to check if your Mac has APT-X codec enabled:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6483703
I'd guess that all Macs that come with a bluetooth transceiver built-in should have support for this since it's just a codec. It's kind of weird that my iPhone/iPod/iPad have yet to have support for this stuff, but... I honestly couldn't tell a difference with it enabled or not.
As for the materials, I chose them because they worked well with other headphones that I have modded. I did try felt and foam as well, and I didn't quite like how they sounded. Also tried... leather, paper, and pretty much anything I could stuff in there. Honestly, though, this is not the be-all end-all, and I suspect more could be done.