The only vintage Fostex I have is the t20v2, but it sounds a lot like the t50rp: warm, bassy, slightly rolled off upper mids, and a moderate treble spike. Kind of Audeze-ish, although their drivers are too small for that crazy lcd-2 bass. The yh-1 is less warm with more upper mids and no treble...

Quote:   Gratz man! Getting them flat or getting extended bass isn't too hard, but getting both is something else. Curious to see what you did.    

Nice score! Do you know if you got the silver driver version?

Quote: Yeah, too bad those are probably the most bass lite YH-3s in the world, I really like the upper mids, and those tiny ortho drivers are crazy fast! I bet a bass heavy one would be pretty sweet sounding. If you can get a perfect seal the bass goes from nothing to decent, but they're...

Quote: It's the older T20v2. My damping scheme is basically this, I just get get rid of the chamois and stuck a 3/8" plastic reflex dot to the back of the driver.   Some of that weird treble might just be the headphones fault, I don't know. But to my ears that reflex dot mostly...

Quote: Same! I ended up with the Koss DJ100. To me they come pretty close to combining the fun bass of the Panasonic with the detail and vocals of the SRH840, I like them a lot. Not as bass heavy as the Panasonics though, if that's a problem.   Shouldn't go wrong with those Beyers...

Has anyone measured a T50rp with a reflex dot before? Because uh, T20v2 with reflex dot T50rp without Different driver, but still. That just looks too weird. Probably why the clarity on the V2 didn't seem as good! Strange thing is it doesn't sound that bad, you'd think they'd be...

Whoa. That reflex dot looks great!   I was wondering how that would turn out. Looks like it's increasingly distorting everything from 3k on up.

Quote:   Maybe you got a dud? The one I got needs a little more power than the T50rp, but they're not hard to drive at all. Don't notice a massive difference between the two honestly with the same earpads, you can tune them to sound nearly the same. Main difference I can hear is the...

Quote: Have you tried a reflex dot or some felt on the back of the driver instead of using the binding post? To me it does the same thing but sounds even better.

Quote: Look up the baka bass mod. He uses plumbers putty but you could probably use something like plasticine and get similar results.   My understanding is that loose cotton makes things brighter and gives you a bigger soundstage, at least on orthos.

Quote:   My ears don't touch at all with the M50 pads, they're really comfy.   The weird thing is they smooth out the midrange peaks and actually improve the clarity a little, I have no idea how that works. They do change the sound though, you get more bass and treble, and less lower...

Wow, very cool that they turned out that well. I'll have to see if I can get some more bass out of them and keep the mids like that. Although right now they're not even as bass lite as a srh940.   Yeah, removing that extra tape should make them bassier with less treble, and maybe a little...

lol, like them that much huh?   There was a guy here who did a really thorough comparison of some studio headphones and was hearing pretty much the same thing as you.   Personally I like the clear vocals, and the forward mids and bit of zinginess makes them sound good with for rock, I'll...

Ha nice, didn't expect the CAL to win out in the mids. Does having the M50 pads on shake things up at all?

Quote:   I've seen them compared to the HD600 a few times. I actually really loved the mids on the 940 except for some upper midrange peak. If the HD600 has the same mids but a different presentation I really have to try them sometime. But not cold in the mids at all, sounded to me...

Yeah, those look amazing, really nice work. Awesome leather headband too.

Hey, thanks for measuring those.   Quote: I know what you mean, I like them but they're kind of confusing. Really why I wanted to get them measured and see what's going on.   But I think I'm even more confused now! I really didn't think they'd look that good, and they never really...

Quote: Just speculation honestly, site's in japanese so I don't really know. I'm not sure they're even that accurate.   Here's how the HD650 and srh840 look. So whatever they're doing it's really different from innerfidelity.

Strictly for RnB and hiphop, don't get the srh840. Great headphones, but you'll want something with better bass dynamics. They don't really punch that hard, and won't have the most impressive sub bass you'll ever hear.   Quote: Wish I tried those then! From their measurements they...

Quote:   Here's the frequency response for them. I think a neutral headphone measures as a straight line with the system they're using.   So "flat" sounds about right! That 12db peak at 3k looks kind of disturbing too.

Quote: Very cool, I was torn between which one to get for a bassy portable for a while.   Don't regret going with the Koss though

Quote: Some of A, some of B. :) I'd take the 840 for rock, it's a little warm but still has good bite for guitars. The 940 is bright and more for classical or acoustic IMO. A couple others to consider are the Fischer FA-003 and FA-006.   By the way, if you want to save some money...