im turning emo here... 

haha mr frank, running all four of them in a headamp might require a ventilated room and a 5-meter headphone cable.   ill go OT for a while, are all motor caps PIO? ive seen many of those in a local hardware store at about 45-55uf?    

Hello   I recently acquired a pair of matched EL34 and 6V6 tubes... I have no OPT for these as i was thinking i could make a guitar amp from them. But oh, id rather use them as headamps...   Ive done a prior search on google but i didnt get many sensible layout/schematic.   anyone...

thank you for your reply maverickronin,   ive looked into the Fostex T50RP and it got my attention and yeah its a SANE price. ive been needing a headphone for on-the-go listening. i dont want to go all closed because the street has its dangers i need to be aware of. though i wanna know about...

  will i like the HD650?   well, im going to upgrade my cans. currently i have a modded wooden grado sr80i with bowl pads. of course its hard not to enjoy the PRaT and in-your face sound of the SR80i even in jazz records. i want to explore higher-end headphones, maybe of a different...

not to mention the isolation provided by closed headphones...   playing grados inside malls? fahgettabouttit... i get headaches the bass leaks out and youre bombarded by high frequencies. but of course, i love my grado... at home and/or at work.

Quote:   have you thought about buying one of those cheap-n-nasty lo-fi headphones? the sturdy iron used for headbands in gradoes seem to be quite rare. i havent read your earlier posts, what happened to your SR60 anyway?    

i would agree that 40W is too much... i felt that my 30W was already too much. but of course, with a steady hand, you can make it work.   i was tempted to pull the wire so that i wont overheat the thin voice-coil wire. but i backed up i might tear the voice coil by any sudden movements.

  oh sorry, im having a hard time with english.   at first i was quite disturbed at the "imbalance" but i realized sooner that the instruments "fall" itno their respective spots. it doesnt sound too forward now.  superb high frequency extension and vocals get this "air", and sometimes...

oh i went all wood on my grado...     the sound? well at first i was puzzled... i thought theres an imbalance but i realized that the instruments get localized to certain spots... like i cant point exactly where certain instruments are.

work in a well-ventilated area... dont inhale fumes. even though they contain only small amounts of lead. a small air blower out of a brushless fan is good enough. better yet, an exhaust fan.   dont smoke or eat while soldering, lead stains in your fingers may get into your food.   you...

it does not necessarily *improve* the sound quality but the LOD bypasses the built-in headphone amp that are retards the sound quality thus preserving the very good quality coming from the digital-to-analog converter...   oh i didnt read this "Anyway, I'm leaning toward the SR125's because...

i think theres not much difference between the 125 and 80, but if you can extend your budget go for the 225 there i know youll hear big improvements...    when i was shopping for cans, i tried both the sr80 - 225 demo units... i bought the 80.     im very happy with my modified sr80...

yeah and you can even make DIY extension cables...   braiding wires is fun! IMO

do you know any upholstery stores in your locality? i think its much cheaper that way...     oh well, i reported here sometime ago that venting all ten holes in my grado was too much for me. i sometimes enjoy looking through it seeing light passes through the driver. the thumping bass...

Quote:     so the only difference is wood mass?   from what i gather HF2 has a wooden driver holder and aluminum outer shell just like the PS1000 but hte PS1000 has more mass so it provides better/different............????

Quote:   hey man! i dont know anybody in this country that has an SR325 let alone a Grado can... im still enjoying my SR80i woodies and well i just cant resist the temptation of exploring deeper and getting into the aluminum world.   ive not seen spec sheets of grado GS1k and the...

may i bring up a topic here?   i know its been covered in this thread before but its (again) about RS1 vs GS1000 in terms of construction and components. all of the search results are about sonic differences and whatnot...   GS1000 is a wood-aluminum combination or so ive heard, and...

i vented all ten holes... now my grado hurts my ears with pumping bass... feels like a basshead can to me...  

i used an xacto knife... and carefully carved the holes cleanly.

hmmm why are some grado drivers have grey/silver backplates? mine, SR80i, have black... and my diaphragm is foggy white, not clear... its like s***n...

mine was all sides, upper 2/3 of the internal.

but a 1/2inch foam for a 10cm speaker's baffle? leaves so little space after that. thats not really to dampen but rather eliminate resonances. in my experience i just fill the top 2/3 of the baffle with medium mass felt...

hmmm ill have to trace back in this thread that aluminum-wood combination for the outer shells... you know, that one with the aluminum rings... anybody know where it is?

enjoy mate~!   im constantly meeting with my wallet. submitting the same proposal for procurement of the same headphones. we will enter a contact and sign a memorandum of agreement in a month or so.   if you mean by warm amp is tube amp, then you wont find many tube amps that can go as...