EddieE
Headphoneus Supremus
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I might be way off, but not for the reason you suggest.
Grados are open phones - a massive part of their sound is based around air flow.
Put your hand over the grills and you close them. They weren't designed to be closed phones and will sound awful.
The same goes for RS1, MS2i or SR60 - Wood, "Metal" or plastic.
I think we are talking at cross purposes here.
Of course I agree the material the sound bounces off is important - I've heard how lucuious RS1s sound compared to their plastic brethren in the SR series.
My point was simply that the notion that the SR325/MS2 are "metal" may be over stated, since the sound never actually touches any metal besides the grill.
EDIT:
To try and be clearer - here is the picture I am talking about:
See what I mean? Where does the sound have a chance to "bounce off metal"? Looks to me like this is a myth and the SR325/MS2, just like every other SR is a plastic based set of phones.
Now Rhydon removes that plastic ring inside and replaces it with one made of his spec metal, making it a real metal Grado - metal driver housing and metal insert for it to slide into.
Presumably whether Rhydon receives plastic, wood or "metal" phones, he places this insert inside, which makes the magnum sound.
So why would it make a difference which phone you send him? Same driver. Same driver housing. Same insert for the driver housing to slide into. Same phone.
I could imagine that the extra weight of the "metal" models might make a subtle difference, as might the grill material, and the size/shape of the air chamber, but I don't imagine these changes would be as big as the ones the magnum mod itself brings about.
Grados are open phones - a massive part of their sound is based around air flow.
Put your hand over the grills and you close them. They weren't designed to be closed phones and will sound awful.
The same goes for RS1, MS2i or SR60 - Wood, "Metal" or plastic.
I think we are talking at cross purposes here.
Of course I agree the material the sound bounces off is important - I've heard how lucuious RS1s sound compared to their plastic brethren in the SR series.
My point was simply that the notion that the SR325/MS2 are "metal" may be over stated, since the sound never actually touches any metal besides the grill.
EDIT:
To try and be clearer - here is the picture I am talking about:
See what I mean? Where does the sound have a chance to "bounce off metal"? Looks to me like this is a myth and the SR325/MS2, just like every other SR is a plastic based set of phones.
Now Rhydon removes that plastic ring inside and replaces it with one made of his spec metal, making it a real metal Grado - metal driver housing and metal insert for it to slide into.
Presumably whether Rhydon receives plastic, wood or "metal" phones, he places this insert inside, which makes the magnum sound.
So why would it make a difference which phone you send him? Same driver. Same driver housing. Same insert for the driver housing to slide into. Same phone.
I could imagine that the extra weight of the "metal" models might make a subtle difference, as might the grill material, and the size/shape of the air chamber, but I don't imagine these changes would be as big as the ones the magnum mod itself brings about.