The plastic you see is the front is the dust cover, as long as it isnt perforated or torn, you should be good. The diaphragm is between the two hard stators, out of sight.

Hey Don, just curious how you ended up damping the various 'pants you have played with? Prefer not to open these too often if it can be avoided, due to concerns about the wood threading getting damaged. Good stuff, just need to tame the midbass a bit more on mine without killing the low bass off...

Fix it if you have the tools to do so without further damaging the board, leave it out if you don't.

Repairable, but ouch. Looks like the pads are still somewhat intact, so if you carefully clean the solder out of the real holes with either braid or a pump, you can probably get it to work. Measure your connections after soldering the new parts in though. Also, that cap isnt strictly necessary...

Quote: Originally Posted by pabbi1 THINK it's mine - a red board proto hybrid. I'm waiting on Kerry's observation, comparing that with his from-scratch Blue Hawaii build. Maybe JP will weigh in as well... btw, this will all hopefully show in the NY meet impressions thread (I am...

I have a room at the meet hotel.

The Pioneer SE-700 is a fair bit like you describe, a curved roughly circular piezo film driver, with foam directly providing the tension to the back side. It is actually pretty cool, though needs a fair bit of power. A reasonably beefy headphone amplifier does OK, though other than my 'stats...

Quote: Originally Posted by jp11801 heading out in the next 90 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! Already on the bus with a sack full of gear!

I will try and make this if possible.

I am gonna try and make it. Maybe take the bus up, to try and avoid all of those tolls on the NJ turnpike and everything. Not sure about gear, hopefully something fun (read: DIY class A).

I would love to hear the SR-X Pro, as I really like my normal SR-X with dead, vinyl-less pads. Too bad pro drivers are so dear. Also, they really need a better padded headband.

If the stock pads are anything like the RP18 pads, which they should be, they peel off fairly easily. I just dont want to do that to the pads of someone else's headphones, as they are likely not to go back on as cleanly.

I actually still have Marc's T50v1, he left them with me to mess with the damping more. Just waiting for the micropore tape to show up. I am reluctant to peel off the old earpads, but with O2 pads over the stock ones, it doesnt sound too good to me. Weird echo effect going on, among other things.

That is a PMD100-4x PCM1702. PMD200 is in a completely different package, and believe me, it is hard to find. I have been looking, and the only ones I saw were on some chinese auction site. I didnt think of this, but it is difficult to make out. That is an Adcom GCD-750 I modded, new analog...

I got to hear the LCD2 yesterday at the NYC meet. I was actually a bit disappointed, finding it on the muddy and congested side. I did end up agreeing to buy the HE-5 there. Really loving that headphone. Quote: Originally Posted by dBel84 Transconductance amps have been popular with...

Pickup of airborn RF, which then gets capacitive coupled to the CCS transistors? Definitely odd though.

Definitely in for dinner. Also, like Nate, I too have a new dynamic amp, with some of those fancy "tube" things in it.

Really looking forward to hearing those next week in NYC. High expectations.

This is how you fix a HP-1 headband strap

Quote: Originally Posted by DannyBuoy What amp do you use them with? Fang is saying a new EF5 will drive them and will be sold as combo in late Nov. I need to find a USB/DAC now and with buying the ~$900 combo EF5/HE5 I don't have much left for DAC. Any suggestions on an adequate DAC...

The proto HE-5 were definitely underdamped, and had very different pads. The current HE-5 sound far better, though no telling which specific changes caused that. I am sure though that excellent sounding headphones could be made with either driver, but I suspect they made the change more so that...

Quote: Originally Posted by BoilermakerFan Cool Don. I know cetoole, MPI, Alex, and a few others are having a mini-meet at Colin's today so the HE5 will be compared to the LCD-2 side-by-side. Ah, no LCD2 unfortunately, but we had HE-5, dbel modded LCD1, dbel modded T50v1...

Quote: Originally Posted by mrarroyo I am very interested in getting a pair of this headphones but I am a bit concerned when I read there is "static/distortion". Anyone else experience the same? Sure look on feedback on this, thanks. Absolutely no static or distortion here. They...

Quote: Originally Posted by achristilaw A word about impedance and Planars: The impedance (resistance/reactance) is steady in most Planar designs and is a constant, independent of frequency. Dynamic drivers have a stated impedance value but it's nominal (averaged). The actual...