Yep, cannot imagine a better first build, especially if this is your music! Yes, soldering the little f'ing wires to the little f'ing MMCX connector! I know all the right steps to do, but actually executing those steps on the Lilliputian scale is another matter altogether. If I were doing it...

Just built mt877's Artiste Nightingale buds and these are so ridiculously good for small-ensemble classical and jazz. Much appreciation to the creator for sharing these with the community! (The octopus is guarding them not so much to prevent theft but to make sure you don't open them and see...

I had the MMCX adapters (snap-on version from thingverse.com) made for my KSC75s and the Print-a-Thing vendor was kind enough to send along an extra pair. If you're in the US* and you're looking to do the same mod and need the adapters, I can drop them in an envelope and send them to you. Just...

That's some cable weirdness going on right there, hope your next one is perfect! But yeah, I've been so impressed by the sound on this thing. Although I actually tried the Yaxi pads and then took them off. I'm timbre first (particularly acoustic string timbre) and the stock pads just do it a...

Quadrangulator, I can't believe I didn't think of this last night: If you want a quick fix to this problem, simply detach that left headphone from the band (it snaps on and off easily, I've done it many times), untwist the cable to straighten it out, and reattach! This is assuming you're okay...

Sorry to hear about your cable anomaly! That would drive me crazy, much as I would otherwise still love the sound of my new KPH40s. I just did an MMCX mod on the KSC75 (very easy if you have the replacement connector pieces 3D-printed for you): (Sorry, the shot's kinda dark.) But if I were...

Understood, thank you!

Greetings, still for sale?

Votius, don't know if you ever got a rec for a thin cable, but I think this one is outstanding: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832722193465.html Very smooth, no tangles, no "memory," and if you contact them they'll put on a 4.4 jack for like $1 more.

Just tried those again to remind myself, and they're solid! I'm definitely a timbre-head, though, especially with violins, and the 64Ohm Comp Ti (for all its darkness) still manages to make the violins sound slightly more pure to me. One interesting thing I noticed with the higher-impedance...

Braekfast, These are the drivers that I played with prior to the 64Ohm Comp Ti: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803038841161.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804840676782.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803857529689.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803857532661.html...

Braekfast, I have hardly any authority to answer your questions as I'm just as new to DIY (if not newer). For your questions about the alternate shells, in particular, I'll be looking forward to the answers just as much as you are when one or more of the experts chime in here. But I will...

Thank you for the heads-up on this, from another avid jazz listener. But word to the wise, that particular cable shows up as a $1 item with $16 shipping to America! (May not be the same for other countries, but for me, yowza. Gotta love that backend pricing!)

As a lifelong runner, I'll just add one more take, in case it helps. I cannot run with MX500-type earbuds, but I can run with the qian39. The subtle difference in the shape gives it a perfect level of fit and comfort (and I know I'm not the only one who feels this way about that bud), so it...

One more quick check-in from the dog-ate-the-earbud guy, with my first ever solder job! The new cable has been installed successfully and the damned thing plays music again! (If you're familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect, this is the point where I've taken one quick step up the learning...

Nothing but great advice here, thank you!

Thank you, friend! I will reassemble just as I see it, but my question goes a little further. If soldering four little wires fills me with enough confidence to try building an earbud from scratch, now I'll have the raw materials and I'll still be left wondering if the voice coil wires really go...

Hey, dog-ate-the-earbuds guy here, with a quick sanity check question as I await the arrival of the replacement cable. (And I apologize for the imperfect photography!) This is the Rosemary opened up, with the wires coming directly from the bottom into the solder points, and the taped part...

Thank you for your help on this! I'll watch this video, plus I also found the excellent document from the DIY Workroom as a reference. One last question: The replacement cables I've seen so far are 3.5mm SE. Did I just not find the 4.4mm balanced yet, or does going that route present a set of...

It's been a minute (i.e. a couple decades) since I last soldered something, but maybe this is a good excuse to relearn the skill? And how do these shells come apart, anyway? (Sorry for asking the intro-level question.) And yeah, I'd be having a whole different kind of day if Lucy had chewed up...

I had an intuition that I should use a cheap set of earbuds as I was going to sleep last night because the new dog likes to a) sleep in the bed with me, and b) chew anything she can get her mouth on. So this morning: (Sorry, I should have warned you about the gruesome crime scene.) The...

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So Much Smoke.

I'll try the increased power experiment just for the hell of it (again, assuming that Santa* is good to me this year), and then once I've controlled for that variable I guess I can bust 'em open. I've never done that before, so maybe by then someone else will want to take them and play mad...