Very happy with my Liquid Spark. @rayliam80 briefly mentioned the differences in sound between high and low gain earlier in this thread. I have to agree with him. Low gain sounds hefty, spacious, and relaxed--mids are liquid and the stage is deep. High gain is faster, with more incisive treble...

Very interesting. I'll give this a whirl and report back. Thanks for the tip.

Hi Haden, Cool...is that an RPi with Allo DigiOne hat feeding your SPS DAC? I have gone the I2S route but that does narrow down DAC choices. How are you providing 5V?

Awesome pic and description, Nick. Thanks. My goal is to boost low bass without changing the overall sound signature too much, although I would tolerate a little midbass bloat if that was the necessary tradeoff to get some slam. But certainly I want to avoid boosting the treble whatsoever, as...

Hi Richard, You are not the only person out there who cannot look back after discovering the Philips multibit magic. I am getting tons of beauty from my DIY TDA1387 setup after giving proper attention to noise isolation, reclocking, and of course, power quality. I even have a few pretty rocks...

I have the Mayflower v1 also. I haven't listened to them for a while, since I was missing the visceral bass slam in my music. I have never opened mine up. Does Mayflower put any tape on there that I have to remove to try the micropore tape? Have any pics? I am particularly interested in this...

Thanks for the useful update. I knew there was I reason I hadn't gotten around to this yet :)

Thanks. I have tried TP, foam, and fleece in front of the drivers. But never felt. I wish he had measured some of the Dekoni pads as well.

Can you upload the PDF to Dropbox or Google drive etc. and share the link here? I don't really want to mess with a free trial of Scribd.

The thought of 2.25W pure Class A power into my Fostex planars is making me drool...

Onkyo HF Player has some fans, though I don't use it myself. Looks like a gazillion-band 64-bit parametric EQ is included. I don't know if it'll let you input exact Q values for each band, but you could probably just eyeball it based on the middle pic in my first post, and then adjust the...

Not dead anymore :) Thanks for sharing a new batch of EQ settings, Macac.

Now you're pushing all my buttons...Philips NOS, Class A, Planars. I can imagine some blissful synergy going on with your kit...

I don't think you will find the 599 bass too much. If anything, they will probably have "just enough," because the 598, like many open headphones, are a bit light on bass. Enjoy your new cans.

Stunning looks.

Can't be disassembled *unless you want to destroy the pads :)

Goodbye, digital glare. Hello NOS! I want to thank everybody who has participated since the beginning of this thread. All your impressions made me so curious about the NOS sound, that I jumped in. And now, of course, there's no going back! I got hold of a new open-source DAC developed as a...

Tons of current really brings mine to life, with resolution to die for. Lately I have been pairing my Mayflower v1 mk3 with my new NOS DAC (a Philips 1387-based DIY RPi hat). An impeccable match. In my experience, the smooth, time-aligned non-oversampling sound is ideal for matching with the...

If you want to be sure you have the 2017 Deluxe Remix/master, listen to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. You can recognize the difference in the intro: In the original, the electro-harpsicord is panned left. In the 2017 mix, it skips across the soundstage from left to right with each note :)

One of my favorite albums of all time. I bought it on CD in the 90s and now I listen to it as a FLAC rip. I agree that it sounded really good on 598. It sounds good on everything, for that matter. I have the version that ends with "Jamming," not the 2002 remaster with the bonus track...

They sound closer to stock than the Brainwavz?

Well I couldn't find those Dekoni hybrid pads anywhere on their website, so I e-mailed them to ask about availability. Got this very helpful response: "We do not currently have the pads in the line up as they are Massdrop exclusives. When they do their drops for Fostex Ear pads from us you...

Awesome...Paint to the rescue! L2 and L3, right. OK, so there is nothing but copper trace between the test pads and the L2 and L3 resistor terminals you used! I will probably use the test pads just because they are a little bigger with extra space to work around them. With 47uF, you should...

I've been looking closely at your pics. The mod procedure is finally becoming clear to me for the first time! You're talking about soldering right onto the L1 and L3 resistors, on the terminals closest to the edge of the PCB, correct? And if I soldered the wires to the test pads instead...