Thanks but I'm waay the heck down in New Zealand, which is part of the reason why it's so expensive to get them... Tbh I'm more keen on the older 2003 model since I prefer the aesthetics but it seems like the price is a little jacked up on those because they're rare or collectable or...

Hmm okay, maybe I will then. To be honest I care a lot less about micro-analysing the differences between headphones now, everything basically sounds pretty good once you get past a certain point. It's real easy to get emotionally invested in a set of headphones because someone just happened to...

I'm seriously considering buying some DT880s... again. The reason why is because I owned some back in highschool and remember really enjoying the sound and comfort. I especially liked how detailed they were, and how accurate the imaging was. The bass extended deeply and had enough punch for me...

Thanks for your input I guess and congratulations on your 700 pairs of headphones but I asked this question in 2006...

I've been out of the game for a while but I'm going overseas soon so I needed an IEM for travelling... My first instinct was to go for something by Shure or Etymotic then I was like surely the market will have changed since the last time I was looking for IEMs (my last pair was Altec Lansing...

Cool, okay. I've never dealt with this level of electronics before. Are there any visual signs I should be looking for that capacitors are bad, or do I need to test them somehow?

So I got this thing:     It's an Estradin Pulsar drum machine, apparently from Russian 90s.    Anyway it seems to have a really quiet and thin output with no bass and I'm not sure what's going on. I've tried running alligator clips to the outputs on the board to see if it's the jack but...

My soldering skills are pretty bad so there was a decent amount of heat applied. I also used hot glue. However both capsules seem to have the same treble problems. I guess it's possible I melted the diaphragm in both but isn't it a bit too coincidental that I broke them both in the same way? I...

Picked up a few WM-61a capsules for use in a stealthy binaural recording rig for gigs and such. I've performed the 2-wire Linkwitz mod on a pair of them and attempted to implement the circuit design found here http://www.linkwitzlab.com/images/graphics/microph2.gif. As expected the output...

Woah sick necropost bro   Edit: I was literally 14 when I made this thread.

Ah yes, a socket is another thing I'll buy.    A stereo pre-amp for electret capsules isn't really something which is available ready made as far as I know. I'm planning on using this with a simple binaural headset I made from an old pair of headphones and two elecret capsules. It already...

I thought I could skip straight to a protoboard so I didn't buy a breadboard. Obviously I was being a bit cocky. I've checked the connections many times and everything seems to be okay. The polarity of all my caps is correct but looks like I put in 1uf caps instead of 2.2uf caps. I have no idea...

  Right. So I've wired the ground from the input socket, VCC- from the op-amp, the ground on the pot, and the negative wire from the battery to the ground lug on the output socket. So it should all be correctly grounded now. I also wired things to the legs on the pot, not the rivets. On the...

Right, fair enough. So if it works when I don't have VCC- connected it must not actually be using the opamp... What is ground in a circuit like this one? I understand ground can be like a point on the chassis but I don't have a chassis. Do I just wire all my ground things to an empty solder pad...

I'm wanting to use a pre amp to achieve the goals stated on the design page:  "A: Providing a higher electret bias voltage, 9V through a 10k resistor to give the mic's fet more headroom.  (The R91 provides 2.5V through a 6k8 resistor.) B: Having much greater preamp headroom, and bypassing the...