AT W5000 distortion on the left side

[Iron_Dreamer]

I guess this problem varies from headphone to headphone. I've never heard such a sound anomaly from my W5000's. Just cranked up Massive Attack - Angel as high as I could stand, and it sounds clean as can be. Good luck getting rid of the rattle, guys.

 

[Fitz]

I didn't have the rattle until I accidentally bumped the voice coil wires a bunch while modding, so here's what I did:

Before:

After:

Rattle of Doom: 0
Too Extreme Tweaking: 1

(I don't advise any of you to try this on your own pair of W5000s, you may very well destroy one or both drivers)

 

[Mr.Shadow]

Fitz,
I can't see jack in your small little pics, care for explain ?

I tried sk138's method and it works great, I wedged 4 pieces of soft foam between the plastic ring and the driver housing that is on top of it, it's easy and solved the problem.

very well indeed, sound it back to be bassy.

on both sides.

sk138, thank you very much !!!

my warmest blessings, massive attack is an angel again !

 

[SK138]

That's great to hear!

Wow...I have a mod named after me now

I see now the de-facto W5000 testing method is Massive Attack's - Angel...hehe.


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Originally Posted by Mr.Shadow /img/forum/go_quote.gif Fitz, I can't see jack in your small little pics, care for explain ? I tried sk138's method and it works great, I wedged 4 pieces of soft foam between the plastic ring and the driver housing that is on top of it, it's easy and solved the problem. very well indeed, sound it back to be bassy. on both sides. sk138, thank you very much !!! my warmest blessings, massive attack is an angel again !

 

[Elephas]

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Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer /img/forum/go_quote.gif Just cranked up Massive Attack - Angel as high as I could stand, and it sounds clean as can be.

Same here.

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Originally Posted by SK138 I see now the de-facto W5000 testing method is Massive Attack's - Angel...hehe.

Massive Attack - Angel is as good a track as any to check low bass performance.

Volume cranked up, I can only stand it for the first 30 seconds before my ears chickened out.

 

[2deadeyes]

Happy to report that the DIY suggestion by crypt resolved my rattle issue.

 

[crypt@]

For a moment almost made redundant by the good work from SK138!

I may have to get give in and get myself a copy of Mezzanine just for kicks and giggles...

My defining track is Scorpion Frog, Converting Vegetarian CD1, Infected Mushroom.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

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Originally Posted by crypt@ /img/forum/go_quote.gif My defining track is Scorpion Frog, Converting Vegetarian CD1, Infected Mushroom.

Ooh, I love that song. Although I think IM the Supervisor actually has harder, lower bass sounds for "testing purposes"

 

[Mr.Shadow]

Speaking of Infected Mushroom, did you know they are Israeli based group ?

Respect

Back to the subject, I think the song(Massive attack - Angel) is a very demanding one, in terms of dynamics that the headphone needs to comply to.
This is the main reason why I haven't got into the rattle before, but I guess I'm not alone, me and the Audio Technica engineers, they should listen to more trip hop and bass heavy stuff

 

[Fitz]

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Originally Posted by Mr.Shadow /img/forum/go_quote.gif Fitz, I can't see jack in your small little pics, care for explain ?

That's cause Jack was in the other room getting some more Mountain Dew.

The voice coil wires had way too much slack on them, forming two big loops of wire. Unless they were in the perfectly right position (which they weren't after I knocked them around too many times), they would rattle against each other or the side of the opening. I pulled the slack to either side of the opening and glued it down, so that only as much wire as necessary was left.

 

[crypt@]

Happy to write Angel is pounding quite nicely out of my W5000.