I am a big fan of the ifi nano idsd black label. It has its own battery supply, puts out more power than the dragonfly and is close to the same price. Only trade off is that it’s about the same size as a phone!

See that’s what I’m afraid of, that I won’t be able to find anything close to the performance of these for what would be a reasonable trade. I too am not head over heels for these, although they are truly some of the most natural sounding headphones I’ve owned. I still haven’t decided whether I...

After having my NO’s since April I’m trying to decide if they are going to remain a keeper. For all those with NO’s if you were to trade them what would you want? I currently have a set of full woody sr80e’s which I absolutely love but they are open back and not suitable for the wild. I do like...

Ok that’s good news, thank you! Still loving this thing, it seems as if my headphones are constantly on my head nowadays.

So I accidentally left my nano BL turned on over a two day period. It is charging and it plays but the battery life is only about 3 hours now, is the battery toast or with enough full recharges will it come back to the 8ish hours I was previously getting out of it?

I did not use it to separate the sleeve, used an exacto and light pressure for that. I did, however, use it to clean off the excess glue around the drivers and sleeves. It worked great for that and didn’t discolor anything. Stuff worked great for that purpose!

Thank you very much! I am also using a balanced cable running off a Nano iDSD BL, pretty impressed with that little dac and amp, perfect for this Grado!

Ha I wish I had the time to make these, thank you for the compliment though!

Just fixed that, not sure why I didn’t pay attention to those holes. Uncovering them fixed the harshness of the highs! Thank you so much for the advice. This whole thread is awesome and I’ve fallen in love with these. I think I might actually like these better than my Nightowl’s.

Ok so this was unbelievably easy to do, in fact I now have a near mint set of cups and sleeves from an sr80e if anyone wants to purchase them. I used 2.5mm mono jacks inside the headphone to make them detachable. Currently running them with a Dyson audio Gotham GHC balanced cable. The cups are...

Well that was easier than I thought, more to come!

Ah thank you! That was the video I was looking for, I had seen it the other day and forgot which one it was, thank you thank you for saving me a headache!

I’m just about to liberate my sr80e drivers. I have been advised that flush cutters are probably the best route as I don’t need to save the sleeves. I would like to save the sleeves if at all possible. I picked up some ca debonder at hobby lobby. Do you guys think this would work, ie be safe...

So I finally finished my first DIY cable for the Nightowl. I used 24 awg neotech stranded up-occ copper, Eidolic connectors, sleeved in paracord, 3.5 balanced. Wanted to try my first cable with something cheaper than the neptech stranded up-occ silver wire in case I screwed up. Tried to make...

I have a set of the 1More Triple Driver Lightning iem’s, I use them straight from my iPhone bc they have a 24/48 dac inside the lightning version. Sounds very similar to my nightowls. They have 1dd and 2 ba’s.