Quote: I thought the same,  but cut out the stock felt right over the driver,   then the sure pads sound incredible.   It makes sense not to have two layers of material on top of the driver.     What power are people finding is average to make these phones sing?   I am up to...

Quote: Thanyou, thankyou  this is awesome, audio-gd asynch usb.   I am upgrading from a NFB-12.   I have to ask as this is a chunk of change,  but my complaint with the NFB12 is the bass is a tad mushy.  I assume the bass guitar and bass drum reproduction is an uprage with the 10SE...

Quote: The reason to care about distortion of bjts without NFB is simple but hard to grasp for those not trained in controls.  The problem is this hobby is multi-disciplinary.  Not soley electrical engineering, rather a mix of many fields of engineeering and science   For the EE like...

Brief history of mods:    - adhesive craft foam lining inside of cups - big improvement - clay seal around back of driver - helped - poly fill in cups - terrible removed   Still thought the upper midrange a tad mellow compared to live music.   Now I replaced the stock pads with...

Quote: Thanks for the reply, although I disagree with your thoughts on Grados (well Magnums in my case) I understand what you are saying (btw I love my Sextettes.)  Grados for me are meant to be listened at low volumes where the distortion is less than many think, but I agree they howl...

I am afraid to order the TE8802 USB (async) implementation until I at least see a windows driver distributed,   anyone else feel the same?      I've been waiting on a non upsampled (ie non- DAcMagic Plus) Wm8741 24/192 asynch usb DAC with selectable filters for a while.   Audiogd claims they...

Where electrical engineers, sound engineers, objectivists, and audiophiles all disagree is the concept of Negative Feedback.  You can't measure an amp on its own and determine much at all.       Do people know that a design like the O2 creates several magnitudes more distortion than a Single...

  The thing I like about Grado's is intimacy.  I honestly think some folks head geometry and skull sinus make-up plays a part in what headphones we prefer.  I hate Senns, too distant,  doesn't mean they are no good for everyone.  I like AKG Sextettes and 340s but think the new AKG's are limp, ...

Quote: After taking out the poly fill and leaving in the thin adhesive backed craft foam I just started listening to my music collection.  I haven't enjoyed listening to jazz, rock, and blues guitar for that many hours in a long long time.   There is something special about these phones...

Quote: Google isn't what it used to be.  Thanks, I looked and looked before posting,  thats the place.  

For the wood limba cups that are dimensioned smaller I understand there is a Sony headband that fits them well.   I thought I had bookmarked a place in canada that sold the sony headband with arms but can't find it ?

Quote: Anyone?  I came to this forum hoping for a little insight. Never liked Senns, liked the old AKG's with the passive radiators but not their new stuff.    My history is HP-2000 (sold to eat),  then worked up to Allesandro Pros,  finally Magnum V4's (wood and alu),   thought I had...

I bought my first orthos, a pair of $79 Fostex T50RP's.   Always been a Grado person,  but there is a quality to the midrange that the fostex does very well.  At their price I assume they are the bottom of the barrel as far as orthos go.  I helped them by lining the inside of the cup with craft...

Grados sound like live music.  No graph, mic measurement, waterfall plot I've seen shows what live music sounds like.  In a decade when people figure out these measuring tools folks will realize that Grados do a good job of reproducing the live musical performance, until then I trust my ears.

One thing I have learned with my breif ownership of these (my first ortho) is don't put any polyfill in the chambers.   I have slowly been adding adhesive backed craft foam to the insides of the cups which help the midrange distortion but adding polyfill just killed the bass texture.   I am...