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    Cleaning old headphone: foamcrumble inside

    Nobody here who can tell a man what materials are best suited for this?
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    Cleaning old headphone: foamcrumble inside

    Yes, definitely degenerated over time - these where bought during the '70s and have probably never been used the last 20 years. still sound great though I saw someone on a dutch forum with the same cans and the same "problem" - he stated that he replaced it so I'll probably do that to if I know...
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    Cleaning old headphone: foamcrumble inside

    So I recently found out we still have a very nice pair of headphones (Philips N6330) lying around at home and decided to try them out (parents thought they were broken since they hardly output anything without an amp lol). Yesterday I cleaned them out and opened them to see that the foam inside...
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    Identification of old headphones

    Just found out what they are: Philips N6330. It's basically a re-branded AKG K240 sextett with a different construction (some people claim the soundstage is not quite the same as the sextett's). Thanks for help anyway.
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    Identification of old headphones

    AKG was also my first thought but I've never seen that small logo. Open headphones, very heavy but nice headband.   I don't have a lot of experience but they sound pretty good. Pretty pronounced bass for headphones, more pronounced as my DT770's. Definitely depth in the music but maybe bit...
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    Identification of old headphones

    I found an old pair of headphones at home and they don't seem to have any kind of brand or model indication on them. http://imgur.com/a/AZwlc   close up of the connector which shows "Made in West Germany" and a small logo http://i.imgur.com/yme7np2.jpg   Measured them as being 600 Ohm  ...
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    The Xonar Essence STX Q/A, tweaking, impressions thread

    Hi! Im a belgian student and for me most things here a pretty new. Last year i earned some money with a student job and i decided to spend everything together with the money i saved. I bought a dt770 pro 250 ohm headphone cause i heard so much good things about them it seemed like a great...
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    Using the Xonar STX properly

    few months since ive been here at head-fi....   for the unified drivers, yo will need to uninstall asus driver first and then reboot and install the unifieds. i recommend you choose the "low dpc" driver for current version
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    400€ to spend in a good audio system for pc. Help me pls.

    i can really recommend you the razer carcharias (stereo headset). it's cheap (€75) and it's really good value, for gaming and music (you're a gamer, not?)   for gaming i use dolby headphone and 7.1 virtualisation with a xonar stx. the dobly things work pretty good and the stx also makes...
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    Essence STX + Active/Passive-speakers/Micro-system?

    still no answers :(   bump
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    Using the Xonar STX properly

    from the uni xonar blog (http://brainbit.wordpress.com/category/uni-xonar/):   Quote:   these issues include:   Quote: and   Quote: and maybe even more issues...     maybe you should check the blog out yourself ;)
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    What's the weirdest music you've ever heard?

    nothing more weird and great as KOOL KEITH, the absolute underground hip hop master   his first album Dr. Octagonecologyst is released under the name of Dr. Octagon. Dr. Octagon is time traveling creature and gynecologist (=Doctor) from Jupiter. I can't describe him more here, it's just...
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    Using the Xonar STX properly

    i have the stx and i am using the unified drivers   when installing them, check the c-media panel and leave the rest like it is. once installed, the c-media panel will be launched (in background, taskbar) when booting and if u want to use your (old) xonar audio center, you need to manually...
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    Static Hiss From Xonar Essence ST (very apparent when mic boost is on)

    i do have the same hiss as you do. no idea how to get rid of it though... :/ (and i also have a seperate, modular psu cable going from my cooler master m600 to my xonar stx) but if i turn off mic boost, i can't hear anything when monitoring my mic...(razer carcharias headset mic) it's not...
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    M-audio can't make reliable monitors?

    they will only be used for listening music
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