Long time I did not made some DIY so yesterday I choosed to finally check and open one of my two pairs of
Edifier H180
The good news is that it perfectly fits MX500 drivers type (basically 15.4mm). It almost snap (depending of the drivers covers) (
@robar fyi).
I unsoldered one of my mods (the wood shells with the PET 32ohm drivers) to get back the drivers for this new mod.
The cable used on Edifier H180 is basic/standard entry level OFC (I puted it in my backups cables just in case) and decided to also undo my MX760 project to retrieve the copper cable that I generally use in my best mods.
The drivers are not very difficult to remove but seriously needs attention (I killed one driver trying to dismantle), because the covers are really a cover of the drivers themselves, meaning that if you try opening H180 you will directly face the coil, so beware.With some tools you can gently pull out the glued drivers from the plastic shells. As I killed one driver, I had much fun before killing the other one, to plug the cable in a DAP and put at almost max volume listening some heavy bass tracks, it was interesting to see how coils are moving from the magnet, it's like a woofer on its own, it was funny experience, lol, then I killed it to retrive the H180 shells
The holes in the H180 acts like MX500 ones, they have basic cotton tuning that we can find easily on them. As they were completely glued, I decided to gently remove everything, from the cotton to the glue for cleaner result (not in the photos) and put a brand new coton tuning in the shells.
I also removed the stock cotton tuning from the 32 ohm PET drivers and place white thin ones (as seen in the photo) and assembly everything back.
The fit on these shells coupled with these drivers remembers me the Docomo PK2 mod. They are very close.
The result is stunning! bass is just incredible, near the level of Smabat ST-10, like a subwoofer system, I'm impressed.
Sound is yet warm but with some slight V presentation, with very good details and overall clarity. Soundstage not the biggest but very intimate.
Probably my yet best DIY for electronic musics pair ever made! I enjoy it a lot for now
Here is some photos I took during the mod :