Is there a before / after review or section of a thread anywhere on the copper mass loading mod? I'm wondering how different they sound with the copper. I like how mine sound but I'm vain and the copper aesthetically appeals to me. lol.

When I put the square edged foam pads on my MP and LP, the MP was really bassy and clouded out the mids. I was preferring to use the LP at that point which is the weaker bass and I thought they sounded really good. However on a whim I bought some brand new AKG pads from Thomann and wowzers...

This echoes what I remember too. I listened to the crack much more when it was minus speedball and I'm not so inclined to use it since. Its just lost that "something" that was making drawing me to listen to much more music than usual. I've been umming and ahhing about reversing the speedball...

The 2 on the sides are cable tie bases epoxied to the back of the top plate The one over the transformer I made a stand bending a metal strip and securing it under the transformer bolts so it continues the grounding.

These Mundorf's fit and this is in the original base not a heightened one:

My Sextetts (MP & LP) sound great through my 1975 Trio KR-3600 and thats 22Wpc. Also sound great through my BH crack. I find they most suit rock music without too much layering and overdubs. 70s rock sounds great through them.

I have the same TKD as Beefy and skeptic. It really is super smooth to turn as well.

After reading around a bit over the past year or more I wondered whether my green wiring from transformer to octal socket to noval socket was twisted tightly enough. I see some very tight twists on photos so that is one job I intend to do (have been intending to do this for over a year. lol)...

Love the wood :) Is that setup for banana plugs at the back?

Trio (Kenwood) KR-3600: Anyway, we're way off topic now. lol. Back to the crack

Do you mean the paint? Rustoleum Mode spray. Says it is an ultra gloss finish like you get on old fashioned (or modern trendy retro) enamel ovens/fridges. I layered mine quite thick and left it for a couple of weeks to set. It came out very slightly rippled like 25% of the Hammerite effect...

Thought I'd just add my up to date aesthetic for my BH crack: Oh, and remember I said I was gonna re-do my old turntable to match.......................Came out quite well I think:

I have that low level hum when using either the ebay adaptor above or the Garage one and with any of the 4 6SN7 I have. When you say it is inaudible when music is playing it will probably still be there somewhere, just the music puts it way down in the backround. It annoyed me though and I...

I never noticed this before but looking at my MP and LP you are correct.

So the question is which do you prefer? The speedball or non speedball? And are you saying you are using the 6SN7 in the non speedball?

They have a guide on the bottlehead site to build your own power cable. I built one. Mainly because I wanted a right angle cable and because I wanted to believe. Does it sound better because of it? Yes.........but probably because my mind wants it to sound better. lol. I can't say hand on...

What changes to the sound do you notice compared to the originals?

This is pretty much where I am at and have been pondering reverting back to non speedball. i want(ed) to like it with Speedball; 1 because it cost money, 2 because "everyone" says it is a night and day improvement but I find I lost some of the magic. however. with all the upgrades I've done...

Yeah very very smooth. It glides and (seems to me) to be equalized L&R all the way up to FKN LOUD. lol I ground the pin guide, next to the pole, off mine as it is in a different direction to the stock plate and tightened it on as hard as possible plus I had to take the pole down about half way...

I have some 1x 2x and 4x reading glasses that I use for all sorts of things like soldering, tinkering with watch movements.............erm, reading the teeny tiny print on food packets I used to be able to read. lol. Cheap and cheerful but mega useful for magnifying things.

Isn't the Bendix supposed to be much better (or at least much more expensive) than the 5998? Or are you just wanting to compare 2 highly regarded tubes against each other?

I would bet over the past 3 decades some constituents that went into the manufacture of the foams may have fallen foul of the banhammer and thus changed the actual composition of the foams themselves.

I'm also very wary of this idea. We are talking about used headphones here and bought from different people with a range of different hours of use and "housekeeping." To A>B one against the other would in my eyes require brand new or NOS at least because you might get a German one that has...

I have one of each. With the Garage one in its end cap the bit that would have been the top of the cap is cut but the curve left so it sits past the PCB and holds the adaptor up a mm or so from the noval socket without it being wobbly. End cap is on the left, Garage adaptor in the middle and...

This sort of thing. Metal handled sweeping brushes often have one on the end of the handle: