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.

Also, I have decided on either the neotech up occ silver stranded or the neotech up occ silver/gold alloy stranded. Anyone have any thoughts as to which I should go for? They’re pretty close on price but I hear so much conflict on whether the gold is a good thing or not.

I would doubt it unless you were willing to disassemble a pair of the ones that came with the NO or NH.

Yeah the stock AQ cable for the owl is terrible, the newfantasia cable wasn’t quite what I wanted for sound, the Dyson Gotham balanced cable is better. You mention the neotech, which is exactly the wire I’m looking at using for my diy cable. Trying to choose between up-occ solid core silver and...

Agreed, I can literally get lost in the music for hours with almost any headphone honestly, but especially so with these. They are sounding better and better with playing time. Now that I’ve decided on keeping the Dyson audio copper cable over the newfantasia spc, I need to figure out how to...

So I finally got myself a balanced cable for it, well I actually got two, one is a newfantasia spc and the other is the Dyson Audio Gotham ghc copper cable. I honestly think I like the sound of the silver plated better. Anyone else used the newfantasia spc cable?

Anyone else notice during the burn in process, from about 40 hours to 65 hours that the bass seems a bit lacking before it comes back up to an acceptable level? Basically did yours go through periods of good sound and bad sound all along during the burn in process? Never had headphones where...

As the post title states, I am looking for a over ear closed back headphone to be used with my ifi nano black label. I was previously using a pair of 1st gen UE900 iem’s which were stolen from me. I bought a set of the 1More Triple LTNG, which has their own onboard dac/amp so it rendered my nano...