Another approach is to copy or adapt the Audeze LCD3 damping scheme; discussed earlier in the thread. Especially recommended if you're using stock pads.

Just figured out how to best wear these headphones, lol ... Well, first put them on your head then press the drivers in so that the pads squish towards your head. Release. Enjoy! Because the pads are so large, it's tough to get a good acoustic chamber without first pressing the pads in.

@MrTie84 any overall sound impressions? What stands out for you? Also have you, or anyone tried the Hifiman Focus pads?

Part of the reason for using fabric against the driver is that there is less risk of it breaking down and falling onto the diaphragm which would really wreck havoc on the sound. Is there another kind of material you can try? Any kind of paper is probably not the best to use against the driver...

I had no idea. That they did it that way is interesting and makes it worth exploring. The M1060 has a very similar driver structure.

I happened to have some lying around. A good fabric shop should have something similar for single digit dollars.

I’ve been following the conversations on how to mod the M1060s with interest because I’ve had them in constant comparison mode with the Hifiman HE-500s since I got them. From the get go I’d been hoping they would quickly dethrone the HE-500s as my daily go-to headphone. Ah yeah, it didn’t happen...

Did a very similar mod as the one pictured below but instead I used Foam Ear Plugs (NRR=29) cut in half. I found that the 6 pieces on each driver were overdamping my HE-500. The bass got more diffuse and the sound signature relatively slower. Went down to four symmetrical pieces for each driver...

Did a quick search of the thread and didn't see this listed: Remy Shand - The Way I Feel. An incredibly cohesive album, solid throughout, and simply put - good music.  

^ That looks pretty darn good!

Cool ..! What are you planning to drive them with?

  \ Just have a note to add to this. This is pretty much what I found out about my Pioneer SA9500II. When I separated the amp section from the preamp I had not idea just what an incredible amp stage it was. The preamp was actually the main drawback even though together I still considered it a...

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In Foobar ..? It's been a while since I played around with encoding-decoding strings.

It would have been a better program if it was able to compare native file formats. Reencoding an Mp3 back into wave could introduce some other artifacts into the equation, essentially skewing the results, but it's definitely worth checking out.

Oh .. it sounds like AudioDiffmaker requires for both comparison files to be the same format, thus the need to convert the Mp3 back into wave.

So if I had a wave file of a track and a compressed version of the same track, AudioDiffmaker would be able to compare the two and extract the difference into an mp3 file, is that right?

Just finished reading the synopsis on the link Currawong posted but haven't read the full conference paper just yet. I think this is a very worthy study if approached from a neutral perspective. There tends to be a lot of defensive posturing around this subject that I find quite unusual for such...

Unexpected ...   [Erik Truffaz - "Trippin' the Lovelight Fantastic"]  

Double-dee-bump!

Meant to post this some time ago, but never got around to it: Clint Eastwood's film biography of Charlie Parker - both tragic, funny, and acutely musical at the same time. Well-worth watching if you've never seen it. Watched it recently after my summer jazz fest outings. Forest Whitaker, one of...

Elvergun - Awesome list! I recognize some names on that list.I saw the Rémi Panossian Trio in 2014 during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. They were incredibly awesome - one of the highlights from that year for me (got a signed CD at the end of the show - I think the title was Bbang)...

Buckshot LeFonque ... "Music Evolution" - Fusion at its very best ...!    

  @Spyro, I completely understand your frustration and and I think that is part of what easily turns people away from jazz because they are immediately thrown to the deep end of jazz where the current is quite swift and they have no hope of catching the jazz wave. My first post to this thread...

Just in case someone missed this, the following two posts by TJ Elite are excellent descriptions on how to listen to jazz and get into jazz (or get jazz). Thanks TJ ... (see original posts for video links).   Quote: