Have you noticed that threads on head-fi resemble the Chinese whispers game?

(I said, pretending to know what "articulation and texture" means in a context of sound)

And if you have articulation and texture and just want to accentuate the treble a little more?

In a recent thread I wanted to discuss what good sound really is, or rather, what a good headphone really is. People eventually ended up saying that "what's good is good", which is, when you think about it, a pretty good argument. So I was thinking, if good sound is only what sounds good, then...

I have actually made a couple of ear pads for my cd3000s, and I'm certainly no tailor. I made them out of soft suede, and although they don't look at all like the original pads, they do look pretty cool. The only problem is that you have to glue them to the cups, unless you come up with a way of...

Quote: Originally Posted by JadeEast One way is to ask what headphone shows the greatest difference between recordings. Yeah, but how do you know which sound is "right"? Recordings are colored in themselves, by the microphones used, the tape they're recorded to, the vinyl they're...

Quote: Originally Posted by Meta-Fi All you can do is go with what sounds good to you and if it happens to be everything, consider yourself lucky. Well, it's not like I think that everything sounds good, but the three cans I have are all good, I think. It's kind of like wine...

May seem like a stupid question, but I'm serious. I have three headphones, Sony V6, Sony CD3000 and AKG K340, and while they all are pretty different, I'm quite incapable of telling which one is the best. I listen to one of them and think "yeah, this sounds really nice", and when I try another...

I didn't find it very hard to solder the HD650 cable, and I'm no soldering wizard. The wire is made out of OFC copper, so the material is perfectly OK.

I'm not saying that it's dangerous, but that it might steal some juice from the electrets. In the stock k340, the cables are soldered directly to the electret cross board, and then passed on to the dynamic drivers (cross board / electret -> dynamic drivers). Soldering the cable directly to the...

I have now replaced the old cable with a HD650 cable. It wasn't too difficult. I was surprised, however, how thin the copper wires in the HD650 cable were. I'm not a very firm believer in the talk about how cables can improve sound (I changed them because the stock cable was too short), but...

Quote: Originally Posted by wualta [...]undergoing the normal descaling and steam cleaning processes old studio 'phones have to go through [...] Mine required a good vacuuming. This was interesting. Exactly how do you clean them? Is it something I could do by myself? Cheers.

What do you think of a HD650 cable? Would that be OK? Also, I had a look at the modding thread, but I don't think the instructions on how to do the recabling were very clear. I would need to get it explained in detail if I was to do this myself. cheers

I must change the old stock cable on my AKG K340 one of these days, and I was wondering what replacement cable to buy. I'm not a "real" audiophile, so spending more than $50 is out of the question. Should I go for a new stock cable (if there are any left) or what cable would you recommend...

Alright, cheers. So normally how powerful are the headphone amps that work well with the K340? I mean, when I plug them into the mixer they sure sound loud enough, but I don't know what other effects a headphone amp might have on the performance of headphones, except for mere sound volume.

Hi. I have a pair of the apparently very power hungry AKG K340, and I don't own a headphone amplifier. However I do happen to own a professional dj-mixer that states that it has a built-in headphone amplifier of 230mW/400Ω with a gain adjustment of ±15dB. I don't know what that means, really...

Hi, I have a pair of sony mdr cd3000 and another pair of akg k340 which I have bought in a second hand store. They are both pretty beat up and worn, but they still work, which is the important thing. Now I was wondering if there is any type of instructions on how to take care of old / 2nd...

Hi. The headband on my HD 25's has broken (stepped on them by mistake), and since i've noticed that a new headband would cost me around a million dollars, i was wondering if it would be possible to buy a HD 25 SP headband, which is a lot cheaper, and use it for my HD 25's? Has anybody tried...