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Yes these are still available

Up for sale is my pair of Focal Elear headphones (as a set) in my constant pursuit of other hobbies. Alongside my HE-6 and Grado phones, they see way too little headtime for me to justify not having someone else enjoy these. These come with what I believe are the Utopia/Clear pads (original...

Up for sale is a pair of Grado DS2012 Dulce & Gabbana Rare pair of collector headphones! Only 100 pairs made back in 2012. I got them used. Original receipt paid for by the original owner for $1200+. Condition-wise they work perfectly, cosmetically I'd rate them at 8/10. The original packaging...

Joe was a great seller! seamless transaction. Highly recommended!

They'll sell like hot cakes at 2k, so that'll be my guess.

Mr. Fang, please serialize the HE-1000. Thanks!

Just write on the ebay msg with a reply stating that the blue hawaii has electrostatic headphone jacks designed for much higher voltage handling, and cannot be used for the non-electrostatic headphones in question. Modification to allow the T1 to be plugged into the blue hawaii would cause the...

Parts of the HD800 chassis is some form of glass-plastic blend, making it extremely rigid for the same weight. It's nothing short of rocket science, that HD800 thing :)

The He-6 is slightly bright, quite dynamic. I think he meant not warm as in = dark? The HD650 for instance is a very dark phone to my ears, but not the HE-6

Yah I totally misread his post -__- I did fix my response, though :)

  I'm certain sennheiser poured many more times the amount of dough into R&D than Hifiman, Audeze, or any of the other well-received companies did for their phones. This is especially true for the HD800. There are nuances and special design considerations (plastic material, driver design...

  Well said. I'm sad to see Mac being so bold but in the end, if they make a good product worthy of the name, who's to blame them? :P

What people appreciate about McIntosh is that it's all made in-house, by hand, and with a pedigree. Fans enjoy the unique sound - bold, dynamic, and quintessentially American.    To capitalize in an enthusiast-driven market such as headphones requires the company to have pedigree, significant...

Passing on the thoughts of a friend of mine, the massive weight reduction is mightly suspect for a switch to the "single-ended" driver design as present in the HE-400.   IF that's true, it's a movement towards lowering production cost while effectively changing the linearity of the magnetic...

  Interesting...can you explain why the parallel resistor would not decrease load impedance?   From what I understand, a 50hm headphone and a 8-ohm parallel resistor should give a 7ohm total load impedance, hence matching it to the 8ohm sepaker out...

I hope to be purchasing a great condition pair of the McIntosh MC60s for powering my upcoming HE-6 prototypes (Maybe considering showing up at a headphone meet with it?? ). In my opinion, Mac gear is stunning looking (a nice combination of industrial and retro-American), and the early monoblocks...

  Thanks for your help nikongod. That's what I came to realize in my sleep last night :)   Interestingly, the HE-adapter is not built using the typical L-pad configuration from what I can tell. It uses a 10R in parallel but a 25R in series, coming AFTER the parallel connection for the...

I'm sorry I totally posted this in the wrong forum section. Can Mods move this to DIY? Thank you!!

Hi All!   I'm in the process of building a speaker terminal adapter for the HE-6 (~50-65Ohm, purely resistive). Here's what I've gathered so far.   This is for anticipated use with 25 to 75 W per channel speaker amps (with one tube amp at 75W/ch) with output impedance of approximately...

Interesting question that's been bothering me.   If we use the headphone outputs from a speaker amp (ie. front panel), which are usually in-line with the speaker outs but with serial resistors, wouldn't the output impedance be....stratospheric?   And if so, are we not better off just using...

It's the NVX angled pads that I tried. it's claimed to be real leather but feels only slightly higher quality vs the pleathers so I'm not really sure if it's real.

Quote:   I had to cut the plastic support rings from my pleathers down into an oval while preserving the rectangular cutouts of the tabs to maintain structural integrity of the tabs. This way, no need for glue or too much stretching. Unfortunately you lose a pair of pleathers.

Quote:   Aight guys, pads are now in my posession. Threw them on by cutting the edge of the plastic rings from the pleathers that came with my HE-500 into an oval rather than round shape (the pads are oval in shape, and the short axis is shorter than the diameter of the HE-500 cans but...