Blown HD-600's

[drfnord]

Bought a pair of HD-600's about 3 months ago, and it sounds like I blew the right driver. I'm not quite sure of the internal design of the 600's, but from the outside, it looks like the speaker's are coaxial. So, if that's the case, more specifically, it sounds like the right tweeter is blown. This actually isn't the first pair of headphones I've blown, but the pairs before were ear-buds, and HD-500's, so it wasn't that unexpected. I listen to a good amount of drum and bass, and I've come to the conclusion that most headphones can't handle it. I don't crank the volume up often, and when I do, only for one or two songs, and never even close to the point of distortion. I don't eq the music either, so I'm not sending anything extra to the headphones.

I'm a little unsure of what to do at this point, I know that Sennheiser will fix the one's that I have, but I'd like to have a set of headphones that I don't have to worry about blowing. Are the 650's more sturdy? Or should I try something from a different company?

 

[zool]

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Originally Posted by drfnord Bought a pair of HD-600's about 3 months ago, and it sounds like I blew the right driver. I'm not quite sure of the internal design of the 600's, but from the outside, it looks like the speaker's are coaxial. So, if that's the case, more specifically, it sounds like the right tweeter is blown. This actually isn't the first pair of headphones I've blown, but the pairs before were ear-buds, and HD-500's, so it wasn't that unexpected. I listen to a good amount of drum and bass, and I've come to the conclusion that most headphones can't handle it. I don't crank the volume up often, and when I do, only for one or two songs, and never even close to the point of distortion. I don't eq the music either, so I'm not sending anything extra to the headphones. I'm a little unsure of what to do at this point, I know that Sennheiser will fix the one's that I have, but I'd like to have a set of headphones that I don't have to worry about blowing. Are the 650's more sturdy? Or should I try something from a different company?

Blown? Some how I doubt this.. I suggest you go surgical on that thing and check if the driver really has been damaged or if it's just a piece of hair or dust particle in there, it really can ****** up the sound you know.. Make it sound like it's broken even though it's not.

P.S. Be carefull, don't poke the friggin driver with a stick (like I did

).. If you see some dust particle or hair on the diaphragm, just try to blow it off.

 

[Rotareneg]

If you want good quality and quantity sound while precluding a future of the same, ER-4P's would likely do quite well, and while I have no experience with them I'd think any of the Shure in-ear monitors could manage it easy too. Also, professional DJ style headphones are often designed to be able handle a rather extreme amount of volume.

 

[drfnord]

Never mind, I'm an idiot, I took your advice and disassembled the headphones. There was a piece of hair and a bunch of dandruff on the driver. Blew it off, now it's good as new. Thanks.

 

[Nak Man]

Good to hear another happy ending.

Btw, how did that flake get into the driver ? Did you remove the inner foam ? On 650, I'm not sure if this analogy holds true, but higher end / exotic speakers tend to get blown relatively easy compared to lesser alternatives (or to the extreme, PA system).

 

[drfnord]

I don't have that good of an idea. It wasn't "in" the driver so to speak, it was on the piece of silk/whatever(the cone I think?) it is that is on top of the driver. I'm pretty sure that the dandruff just managed to work it's way through the foam to the driver. The strand of hair(which I'm pretty sure was what was making it sound blown), I have no clue about. Got in there somehow, was making quite the racket.

Brian.

 

[BowerR64]

Its weird how they get in there. Ive seen some sticking out of my eggo pads and when i pull it out its alot longer then it looked.

Good headphones you can take apart and fix. Cheap ones are glued in and if they start to rattle like that your SOL

 

[Langrath]

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Originally Posted by BowerR64 Good headphones you can take apart and fix. Cheap ones are glued in and if they start to rattle like that your SOL

In my Grado SR 40 there was a broken cable contact. I had the same problem only three months earlier and had got new ones with a very long waiting. This time I gave up sending them and tried to repair them myself.
The driver was glued, just as you said. But they had made one smart thing. The glue was in some rubber material. The glue was of a sort so that you really got get the rubber off without destroying the rubber. And the glue could be used to get the rubber on again, after soldering the cable! Of course screws are better. But for being glue this was a good alternative.
I also saw why the cable got broken so easy. I think they have some sort of band mass-produce. The person who had mounted them had made the knot on the cable so hard that the metal under the knot was hurt. I think that the person didn't understand a bit how the cable was constructed.

Georg

 

[Nak Man]

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Originally Posted by drfnord It wasn't "in" the driver so to speak, it was on the piece of silk/whatever(the cone I think?) it is that is on top of the driver.

Hi Brian, it's the inner exposed driver that we need to be careful. Some head-fiers remove inner foam as a tweak and to me it make them more fragile to hairs etc. I also have some tiny white flakes on that screen of my 'new' 580 so i'm sure they're not dandruff .. maybe sennheiser's hidden feature.