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I plan on taking the internal speakers from my Sony MDRZX110 ZX headphones and installing them in my work PPE safety earmuffs. This is my first time doing something like this and I was hoping to get some advice on problems or complications i might run into. I did a lot of simple wiring as a kid...

Hello, I'm new to DIY world so I'd like to start with a kit, the Crack caught my eye. Since is an OTL amp It does not pair well with my LCD-X. I'm looking for advice on what parts change/add/remove to make it more powerful on the 20 ohm region. Also I'd like to add a second pair of RCA...

Hello, I am looking for some advice. The cable on these headphones is tiny and frankly proved to be flimsy. My friend already did some repairs on the cable once. I want to instead place a jack on the headphones. I was thinking something like a Mini XLR or a 3.5 mm connector that way I can just...

I want to re-spray my HD650 headband since it's old and the paint is chipped in places. I want to do something a bit different and try a spray paint with a hammered-look finish type of paint, but I have no idea about the flexible properties of any spray paint. Does anyone have any experience...

Another driver maker has entered the marketplace. It's great to see more guys like this popping up. Modding Grados and building Grado-esque cans is a deeply satisfying sub-genre in the lunacy that is the headphone hobby. Here are some pictures of the prototypes in the cups I have been using them...

Hi All,   Thought I would start a new thread on this...a little while back, I am not sure how long ago, I came across a website for a company called Elleven Acoustica. It was stocked with several goodies for modding Grados (wooden cups, and some aluminium ones, as well as wooden sleeves). A...

Purpose: To discuss driver alternatives that are being used within the Grado headphone cups.  This would apply to both custom wooden cups, as well as the standard plastic Grado or Alessandro cups, as well as Mahogany cups made by Grado. Again, the emphisis is on non-Grado manufactured drivers...

I thought this might work a bit better.  Sadly, the DIY Cable Gallery thread is becoming less of a gallery thread and sadly, more of a Q&A thread     Let's use this thread for the Questions and Answers thread for information regarding DIY cables, connectors, using an ohm meter, paracord...

In order not to infect and bring the SR60mod thread off-topic I thought it might be an idea to start a new thread for those of us Grado modders who want to share ideas/impressions/mods concerning their Symphones Magnums. Personally, I have been very impressed with the Magnum drivers and think...

Just throwing this general discussion out there. Post your grado mods. Pads, cables, headband, earcups, woodwork... ANYTHING Goes!! Pics would be nice, but certainly not needed. Text will do just fine Garrett

I have long lamented the lack of any kind of electrostatic amp that a less than utterly advanced DIYer can safely build. There are plenty of designs out there. Some of them even with board artwork available. But there doesn't appear to be anything for which you can buy a professionally made...

When I missed the 1st round of Alien DAC boards, I decided to do my own board layout to best suit what I wanted. The following is what I came up with. It measures 50x26mm, and for the most part, I just copied the schematic used by the Alien DAC, dropping the BUF634 section, as I only plan to...

Over here, I showed off the fact that I made some nice looking coasters. I'd rather not do that again. So I'd like to get some comments before I send out my boards again. Considering that there is some many DIY DACS out there, why do another one? Well, quite simply, there was not one I...

Hello all, I've decided for my next project I'm going to try and design and build a USB DAC. While there are already lots of interesting options available out there, designing my own really appeals to me. I'd like to keep the parts budget between $150 to $200 (i.e. in the same range of a...

Hi Folks, I thought I'd share my DAC PCB design with you. Got the PCBs today and have it working in hardware mode. The design is as follows: Inputs: Burr Brown PCM2707 USB to SPDIF converter 2 x Optical SPDIF 1 x Coaxial SPDIF (although I made a mess of the PCB footprint for the RCA...

Hi, I've just joined this site today. I just want to say hi to everybody and show you my version of electrostatic headphones and amplifier. I've successfully made the phones and the amp for about a year now. I just love them. I hope my work might inspire somebody here. :) Wachara C.

I just ran across this very inexpensive tube integrated amp kit. Looks almost like the perfect kit for people wanting to take baby steps into tube DIY (almost like a tube version of the CMOY)... everything's included and there's a PCB so very little point-to-point wiring is needed...

A new true R2R Ladder DAC!  The first reasonably priced Ladder DAC to come along in a long time!   I'm very excited about the potential for the implementation of this keen new piece of gear.  Now to the particulars.   Here is the link to the Soekris website...

I have drawn up a layout for a simple A-B switch box. I have very little knowledge of electronics, will this work OK. What I am trying to do is to connect the headphone outputs from two amps and have one or the other switched by the headphone relay based on whether SW1 is open or closed. At...

Ok you are going to think I am kidding, but yes I actually DID do the following test. People argue that 300 bucks is a lot to pay for some noise canceling headphones and the audio quality isn't always the greatest. Well today I actually did the follwing test. Today I got my new pair of CX200...

Today while watching a documentary on my PC I hear this scratching sound and realized that the LOOP OUT  RCA outputs wires were not connected to my speaker system and instead the connector end made contact with the steel edge of my desk. Now the left channel in my Amp is outputting at around...

Considering one of these. Is there anything else at comparable level I should be looking at instead? Anyone tried one and been impressed or do they cater mostly to tweakers?

Hello everyone at Head-Fi,   It's a pleasure for me to share my first post here with you. My name is Juan Noguera, and I am an Industrial Design graduate student here at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). I have for some time become fascinated with over-the-ear headphone design, and...

Different headphones have different strengths for different genres of music.  I don't particularly like a super-impactful bass response from my headphones if the genre is classical for instance.     It got me wondering, can certain amps be better suited towards specific genres?  Or rather...

Just wondering, for those who have taken the time and expense of balancing your K701, what changes can you make note of?   Please feel free to include who recabled your K701 or if it was DIY.  Also feel free to include whether it was Y split mod or one sided cable mod.  And lastly please...