Recent content by Mad Max

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Get a Chrome 325is, swap drivers and buttons, et voila! =p

- SALE - Up for sale are multiple headphones. I feel that I need to thin the herd a bit after some recent acquisitions that I'm having fun with. I'm the second owner of most, none have funky smells or stains, all are near mint or excellent condition except for the Sony CD900ST that is in...

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I still have my K553, my latest mod to it improves the soundstaging dramatically, though it remains unextraordinary, definitely won't become a gaming-worthy can by any stretch. I have never found the 553 to sound veiled, Sennheiser's HD6MIX and the old Beyerdynamic DT440 do, as examples. Stock...

Might you do any of the woodies in the future? Like RS1 or RS2, or GS1000?

All earpads squish with time and use just like pillows, there is no avoiding this except by simply never using your headphone. Pleather always disintegrates, it is simply a question of time. The previous generation Pro900 looks better suited to maintenance. You can order spare parts from...

553 MKII, because you want speed and details, but the stock earpads hurt bass and treble clarity, I recommend using oval brainwavz pads for best sound, not the circular XL pads, the oval pads have a bigger ear opening and that matters. I also strongly recommend fiberfill and transpore tape to...

Very minor if you use budget gear, major if you use something more upscale. I've got an Audio-gd Reference 10.32, K701 is in a very different league of fidelity from HD700 out of this amp/DAC unit while hardly any better out of my older, lower-cost gear I still have, and with upscale gear, HD800...

Some musicians outside of head-fi told me that bass boost sounds better with headphones that have less inherent bass distortion. Last example I saw mentioned was HD800S versus the original, silver HD800. HD800S has higher bass distortion, which sounds more pleasant for normal playback but the...

The headphone is partly disassembled, the foam rings that sit in there normally for the X or Z versions would obviously get in the way, but the photo is someone else's as I said there, I have not done the detachable cable mod to my headphone. And try real Dynamat if you can, or try sorbothane...

m50x? yuck :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I am reposting what I shared in the K550 thread. Another fellow showed that he removed the white acoustic filter and taped up the three baffle vents surrounding the driver, a mod that I do not personally recommend. Headphones typically need these. A previous, related post of mine in this...

The filtered vents around the drivers aren't protection, they are tuning holes and the designers use them to tweak the tonal balance, you'll find them in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and quantities in almost all headphones. Some Ultrasones and low-end, lo-fi cans lack them altogether, as a few...

I don't know about HD700 being pretty, I think my Ultrasones, HD650, T90, and SR325is are much better looking. =p I was agreeing with you until you said HD700 can't do EDM. That's what I like it for most, actually. I love HD700's bass the most out of all my headphones for its quality, but bear...