Excellent is right! You can now make me a nice short balanced cable for my H1701's and ES100!
I might have something cooking...
Excellent is right! You can now make me a nice short balanced cable for my H1701's and ES100!
Hey, I'm looking for a reasonably priced balanced cable for this to use with the fiio q1 mk2, and I was wondering if something like this will fit? I've heard they have very small slots.
I just received my silver/grey version. And after several tests with my Note 9, my Fiio X5III DAP and my SMSL IQ Headphone Amp/DAC, I came to the 100 percent sure conclusion that my headphone is wired out of phase. I did several Phase Tests and inverted the phase of one channel with JRiver (that solves the problem), switched the cables around and so on. Did anyone else experience this? Thanks a lot!
Can someone tell me about their imaging and sound stage ? Is the imaging precise and sound stage slightly wide ? I wannabe know if this would double as a gaming/movie headphone
Thx for the insight. I'm seeing some of the reviews on Amazon say that also. So I guess this just confirms that they could double as gaming hpI recently sold mine and can't quite recall the quality of imaging, but they were definitely wide sounding for a closed back. I thought they were great for fun gaming/movies if you can tolerate a heavier on-ear headphone.
This is an excellent thread and the mod tips are great, thank you all.
I just got a pair on the basis of this thread, the H1707 from most reviews showed them to be great at their price point (i paid £171), and I liked that you could improve them with some simple modding.
I was going to give my layman's view on the sound but have found that my pair has the polarity reversed, and there's a slight driver mismatch. The higher frequencies match, so I think it's just the main drivers. When I first got them I thought something was off but as both (main) drivers are the same, I used the audiocheck website to verify (polarity + mismatch tests).
I read that some manufacturers wire them this way to give faux soundstage, I'm assuming that's not the case with 1More. Has anyone else checked the polarity of their units?
I must have children's ears as the fit is comfortable. I did try the position swap mentioned by Slater, but found you lose some of the fun on a physical level. The tweeters do something to my ears that is missing when switched. With regards to sound improvements, I cant say as its often subjective but the trebles/highs massage/vibrate in a most pleasing way, which isn't the same when swapped.
Thanks Slater. I'm still on my 30 day return period.
The first mod (if I attempt it) will be the ingenious foam one but rather than sacrifice the originals, I thought I'd get something like this BEYERDYNAMIC SPARE FOAM INFILL For DT100 headphone, DT108. One site has them for 22p, and they seem about the right thickness.
I recall one mod you did to fix an issue on the gold pair your brother (i think) has, i.e removing the bass reflector/radiator. Out of interest, do you get to the part from the outside, or with the pads removed.