mattigol
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I'd like to know the state of mind of some of you W5000 owner out there. I like mine very much and think they are very capable especially with a powerful tube amp, but for whatever reason were not tuned quite right by AT, resulting in a poorer performance with many solid state amps.
Since I assume the driver assembly to be pretty much the same as on the other highend AT cans, I guess the new housings are partially to blame. Makassar is an extremely hard wood that may have acoustic properties that yield the fast, spacious, but also a bit dry, at times even slightly thin sound that many were noticing.
I propose the W5000 are capable of much more with a sensible amount of dampening material applied to the inside of their housings. From a recent Thorens TD125 restauration, I got aquainted with adhesive automotive bitumen. I'd like to glue bits of that to the insides of the W5000's housings as I think its high specific weight can "slow down" the housings resonating to the point were a slightly warmer, lusher sound results.
What I do not want is break anything. By one account, the housings pop open fairly easily. I remember some W5000 owner around here pryed open and started experimenting with dampening the wood housings of his phones, but I can't remember who that was.
Can some of you guys (W5000 owners, DIYer, the guy who has opened up his W5000) please chime in and discuss my plans?
Thanks!
Since I assume the driver assembly to be pretty much the same as on the other highend AT cans, I guess the new housings are partially to blame. Makassar is an extremely hard wood that may have acoustic properties that yield the fast, spacious, but also a bit dry, at times even slightly thin sound that many were noticing.
I propose the W5000 are capable of much more with a sensible amount of dampening material applied to the inside of their housings. From a recent Thorens TD125 restauration, I got aquainted with adhesive automotive bitumen. I'd like to glue bits of that to the insides of the W5000's housings as I think its high specific weight can "slow down" the housings resonating to the point were a slightly warmer, lusher sound results.
What I do not want is break anything. By one account, the housings pop open fairly easily. I remember some W5000 owner around here pryed open and started experimenting with dampening the wood housings of his phones, but I can't remember who that was.
Can some of you guys (W5000 owners, DIYer, the guy who has opened up his W5000) please chime in and discuss my plans?
Thanks!