[motorheadfi]

After 3 years Of F5005 listening I decided to open the cans again to examine what might have happened to the modification and to experiment a bit.

Mod was still in place like it was yesterday - no shrinking or drying out. Then I made a small modification to the F5005 mod by removing the "ravioli" and opening two more segments below the originally opened - the result was excellent:

Deepest bass without being overwhelming
A bit reduced AT mids and
High resolution and wide soundstage. I wont change this F5006 mod again.

So it is really worth experimenting a bit, the construction has so much potential. It really seems that AT produced headphones which have extreme potential and can be modified to the tailored sound. I wonder why there is no Blue Tack in the package

 

[SONYES]

MY GAER IS TODAY
I CAN NOT UP PIC 
 
HD800
DT-880PRO THE BEST 
ATH-W1000X
ATH ESW11LTD
ATH-M50 THE BEST SOUND FOR THE 120$
CX400II
 
LUXMAN P-1U THE BEST FOR HD800 WIDE WORM SOUND TO ME HEVEN......
LHEMAANAODIO LINEAR
E-01 CLON OF THE BCL BUT THE SOUND IS SO GOOD FOR 220$ VERY GOOD WHIT DT88PRO
 
CD PLAYERS/TRANSPORTS
SONY CDP-XA50ES  -
THE BEST SONY CD I HAVE  EVER HERD   - EVEN THE SCD-1 IS NOT SO OPEN AND ALIVE AS THIS  XA50ES - I SOLD MY  SCD-1+TAE1  WHEN I HERD THE XA50ES !!!
 
DENON DCD-1650AR
DVP-S9000ES
CDP-337ESD
CDP-X303ES
CDP-X222ES
 
DAC
 
REGA DAC- VERY VERY OPEN WORM  VERY GOOD SOUND FOR CALSICAL  FOR ME.
 
MARANTZ CDA-94 16 BIT  WOW FOR THE SOUND IN 1986 !!!!  IN TODAY  DACS .IS HIEND
XLR OUT TO THE LUXMAN P-1U THE SOUND WOW FOR ALL RENGE - NOT SO OPEN AS REGA DAC BUT FULL.
 
MDS 
SONY MDS-JA555ES- AS DAC IS VERY VERY GOOD -LIKE THE SOUND OF XA50ES WHIT A LOT OF BASS LINE
            MDS-JA30ES-AS DAC  SONY WAS AT THE BEST !
            MDS-JA3ES
 
AND ISTILL CANOT FIN THE PEROPER SOUND FOR W1000X
 
THANK YOU
SONYES
ISRAEL

 

[Mach3]

  OK. So I've experimented myself and made a variation of original F5005 mod. I like it so much that I probably won't be changing the mod anymore and will stay with this little variation. I am so happy with it that I would like to share it with you, too.
 
So initially I've made original F5005 mod - I covered the whole surface with blue tak and left both (grey and white) dampening materials in.
The mod made promising change to the sound of W5000, but I really didn't like the too much bass from which it got a little headache because of the air pressure. So I decide to try the following two modification of the mod:
1) I made a two little 'holes' in the blue tak surface (blue tak is still covering almost the whole surface except for the two little 'windows' i've made)
2) I removed the grey dampening material (white is still in place)
 
The result for me is that I got best of the F5005 mod. I have more bass, clear, but not piercing treble, tamed higher-mids and soundstage and imaging are like in the original W5000. Just great! I am really happy I made more experiments with the mod. Thank you to the original inventors of the mod!
 
Now I can rest and relax listening to the beautiful sound of W5000

 
Any chance you can post some photo of what you did? Original photo by OP has been removed

 

[Fitz]

   
Any chance you can post some photo of what you did? Original photo by OP has been removed

 
The photos are gone because I'm a dumbass and put them on imageshack. If I can find them in my archived files I can reupload them to something like imgur or whatever.

 

[Mach3]

   
The photos are gone because I'm a dumbass and put them on imageshack. If I can find them in my archived files I can reupload them to something like imgur or whatever.

 
Thanks Fitz.
You can't upload them to head fi?
 
I ended up cutting out a ring of 1cm thickness and 1cm wide and place it between the driver and the leather pads.
The difference was night and day.
 

 

[Wilashort]

Have you found the pics on your archives?. I soon will have an Fitz Modded W5000 that i traded with an LCD-2, and I want to see how the mod was made.
I would be very grateful with the images that you did put again.
Quote:

   
The photos are gone because I'm a dumbass and put them on imageshack. If I can find them in my archived files I can reupload them to something like imgur or whatever.

 

[Mach3]

   
The photos are gone because I'm a dumbass and put them on imageshack. If I can find them in my archived files I can reupload them to something like imgur or whatever.

 

 

I'll PM Fitz, see if he manage to find the photo.