Just as an fyi about the magnets thing, seeing if the magnets stick together is actually a very bad measure of the magnetic strength of the motor in the drivers, heck even cheap chinese ferrite drivers will stick, the fact that some drivers stick is more a measure of how much magnetic flux is...

Well, it depends on the size of drivers your headphones have in them now. Ebay will sometimes have replacement parts but if your current headphones are teh right size I'd go with something brand new like the ypsilon/epsiolon drivers from ellevenacoustica dot com or the nhoord red from nhoord dot...

Well, you can buy memory foam pillows to cut little donut shaped rings out of at walmart, as for the leatherette, you may have to ask around at a few craft stores or check around on ebay a bit.

Don't use speaker drivers as the driver for headphones unless it's a tweeter, there's a few threads on here of using electrostat tweeters as headphone drivers. being that close to your ear AND being enclosed, the low range is amplified majorly, so a full range would be a bit too bass heavy, I've...

In terms of the speakers, amp, and battery you use, it all depends on your budget. If it were me, I'd use a TDA Amp, 15 watt off of ebay, these usually use a 12 volt input which you can use a lead acid electric fence battery, they're pretty durable and completely sealed unlike a car lead acid...

First thing I would do is contact Audio Technica and see if they sell replacement drivers, then if you're comfortable with the disassembly, simply replace the defective driver with the replacement. If the glue itself is visibly bubbled, then that's usually a sign that the voice coil overheated...

I've done a couple of DIY headphones before, it's more difficult to get started than you'd think, but once you get the hang of it, it'll be easier to improve and replicate your results than you'd think. No, the extra length of cable won't harm the sound in any way, wood can be a good material...

Hope I'm not replying too late. So long as the wires are soldered well and wired in phase properly, there's no reason it won't work. I've found that enameled wire like what those earbuds probably have, are a bit more difficult, you probably don't hear anything because the enamel is insulating...

Well, I've never done any diy with those headphones, but how you execute it would depend a lot on your goals in wooden cups, you can find a lot of info in a post by TheLostMIDRange called "Cup Tuning Basics" but that's mostly for full woodys, if you're just using the outer cup, I'm not sure how...

If i remember right, those headphones have a capacitor as a "crossover" but to properly design a crossover you need the specs on the drivers, if you know the resistance 32 ohms, you can use that in an online crossover calc, and if you find that tiny capacitor and can measure it's value, you can...

Any specifics on material, woven sheathe or solid insulator, braided or solid conductor, braided or solid cable?

I've had a little bit of driver flex in the left channel of my monoprice iems (my left ear always seems to fit differently than my right for some reason) but it's very rare and only when I'm carelessly shoving them in, not very loud or painful in any way but I've heard that these iems can handle...

If you get a pair of drivers, even a couple low-fi ones, and follow a few basic guide lines on making the headphones it'll be hard to make headphones that don't sound good for the price. Open headphones are typically the easiest for the DIYer to make without compromising sound quality. I don't...

Diy headphones shouldn't be too difficult of a project, so long as you follow a few rules of thumb on how they're made, "woody" phones would probably be the easiest, the type of wood can affect the sound a little but you can always compensate at least a little by tuning the design, simply trial...

Pulled those headphones comletely apart, the "main" driver has a REALLY thick diaphragm material, very solid, probably for big bass with the tweeter for highs. Plugged the big drivers into an amp and they act like really rich mini fullrange speakers, they don't sound that bad on their own. I...

Well, I've tried a bit of damping with the cups on these cans, it improved the sound a little, though they're definitely are dual driver, there's a small "crossover" glued to the back of the larger driver, but after cutting the wire leading to the smaller driver, a lot of the distortion...

Modding is my greatest addiction. I'll keep going for months until I get that perfect sound, same with everything I own, cars, computers, kitchen knives, everything's either modded like he11 or homemade, and I've been able to learn so much from doing that, I can forge a knife strong enough to...

Hello world!!!   I'm currently in the process of modding a Rocketfish gaming headset as a gift for a friend of mine. I was questioning the sound quality of a  hardware store gaming headset but at a 75% discount I figured it would be a nice to see the possibilities, and I was pretty well...

Hey, i just got a pair of the lethal headphones almost just like the one in your picture, mine are brown though, rather than black. i'm not a big fan of the sound yet but I'm planning on modding them, for example, sound deadening in the right places behind the driver can really clear up muddy...

crystallize, shadows, and elements, all three by Lindsey Stirling

  AWESOME!! Thanks a lot!

Hey, I'm beginning to make/mod my own headphones but I would like a method of testing besides just my own two ears, I've used audacity to give a simple representation of a frequency response graph for a set of speakers, but I would like  some kind of software to give a bit better representation...

Hey, I saw your article on overclockersclub and noticed you mentioned how songs like lindsey stirling's music sounded good but others didn't, did the other music sound a little harsh or gritty to your ears atall? I've noticed that about a few headphones, crystallize sounds incredible but...

I'm modeling the cup of my headphones off of the design of a violin, I want to be able to experiment a bit with the different dimensions , thickness of wood, height of the ribs, to produce the best sound for the drivers I'm using, I'm also going to see if the headphones work better undamped to...

It depends on the material in question. I had a set of headphones with really crappy spongy material in them and I replaced them with a set of earpads made from walmart imitation leather and a cut up carwash sponge and it really was night and day, far greater difference than any kind of...