[DR650SE]

Can anyone help guide me? I realize this is a DIY earbuds thread and think this fits.

I have Westone W40 IEMs. The shell on the left ear cracked open. Then that happened, one of the wires broke. I'm in the midst of trying to repair them. I replaced the ground and signal wire with enameled copper wire. However I must be missing a jumper wire or something, because I don't seem to have any high end. When I test it out, it sounds different from the right ear bud which is working. I believe I'm missing the high end. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Themilkman46290]

Can anyone help guide me? I realize this is a DIY earbuds thread and think this fits.

I have Westone W40 IEMs. The shell on the left ear cracked open. Then that happened, one of the wires broke. I'm in the midst of trying to repair them. I replaced the ground and signal wire with enameled copper wire. However I must be missing a jumper wire or something, because I don't seem to have any high end. When I test it out, it sounds different from the right ear bud which is working. I believe I'm missing the high end. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

This is an EARBUD thread, not an Inner Ear Monitor thread, what do you think I.E.M. Stands for? And why do so Manny people think earbuds and iems are the same thing, one goes in your ear, that's what the I in iem stands for, it's an abbreviation, iem, I for inner, e is for ear, m is for monitor. So I would check maybe the diy iems thread because this thread is for ear buds (earbuds is on the outside of your ear, not in your ear, I understand iems ar marketed by manufacturers as earbuds but they are not the same thing)

 

[furyossa]

Here you can find also earbuds with smaller dynamic drivers (6-12mm) which are I.E.B. (In-Ear Buds). We discuss here mainly about dynamic drivers.
BA's are not so popular on this thread

 

[Slater]

Here you can find also earbuds with smaller dynamic drivers (6-12mm) which are I.E.B. (In-Ear Buds). We discuss here mainly about dynamic drivers.
BA's are not so popular on this thread

Interesting - do you have any examples of earbuds that use small drivers (6mm-8mm)?

 

[furyossa]

Interesting - do you have any examples of earbuds that use small drivers (6mm-8mm)?

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/diy-earbuds.822327/post-15668959
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/diy-earbuds.822327/post-15670267

 

[Slater]

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/diy-earbuds.822327/post-15668959
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/diy-earbuds.822327/post-15670267

Wait, I thought you were talking about 6mm earBUDS, not 6mm IEMs.

Sorry, I must have misunderstood.

 

[edoin]

Has anyone able to try the 68ohms "vocal" driver? I'm rocking the 130ohms Be driver and these sound great! I was able to get the last pair from a seller that said the factory that produces the driver is currently closed as they don't have the materials to process them anymore.

 

[captione]

Has anyone able to try the 68ohms "vocal" driver? I'm rocking the 130ohms Be driver and these sound great! I was able to get the last pair from a seller that said the factory that produces the driver is currently closed as they don't have the materials to process them anymore.

I'm planning to buy one, and I was also planning to buy those 130ohm be drivers that suddenly sold out on shopee. That sucks.
Might do a build once I got enough extra budget since there's ALOT of cheap titanium plated drivers that I have to try, and the dual driver 15.4mm one too.

 

[edoin]

looking forward for your impressions

 

[robar]

I've just received the new large style 14.8mm speakers from cklewis, will test them in the close future They look similar to the B40 drivers but there are some major differences. The new pair has twice as much and also larger slits on the metal base and the whole thing sits much deeper in the cover. Also, the speakers appear to be much more magnetic than the b40. The plastic cover itself is identical. I'm hopeful that the sound will be better as well. It fits the b40 shell perfectly just I have to find tuning material because I'm short of tuning rectangles

On the left: cklewis pair, on the right: B40 driver after removing the white horseshoe and some excess glue

 

[captione]

I've just received the new large style 14.8mm speakers from cklewis, will test them in the close future They look similar to the B40 drivers but there are some major differences. The new pair has twice as much and also larger slits on the metal base and the whole thing sits much deeper in the cover. Also, the speakers appear to be much more magnetic than the b40. The plastic cover itself is identical. I'm hopeful that the sound will be better as well. It fits the b40 shell perfectly just I have to find tuning material because I'm short of tuning rectangles

On the left: cklewis pair, on the right: B40 driver after removing the white horseshoe and some excess glue

Looking forward to your impressions, I am planning to build one with those drivers

 

[assassin10000]

Finally got a replacement pair of those 14.8mm DIY PK1 150Ω redfilm drivers. Working on a new pair of modded shells for them as I re-used the old ones for the 64Ω N55 drivers when they showed up.


In the meantime I've been enjoying the 120Ω beryllium drivers. Here's a comparison to the 2020 K's LB (aka LBBS) and the original ST-10.
Note: the 120Ω measurement is with EQ applied.

 

[528068]

https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...724857.videoBannerStyleB_top.3.39606c264PMUl1 IEM planar drivers. Would really like to see somebody review them.

Specs:

 

[assassin10000]

Can anyone help guide me? I realize this is a DIY earbuds thread and think this fits.

I have Westone W40 IEMs. The shell on the left ear cracked open. Then that happened, one of the wires broke. I'm in the midst of trying to repair them. I replaced the ground and signal wire with enameled copper wire. However I must be missing a jumper wire or something, because I don't seem to have any high end. When I test it out, it sounds different from the right ear bud which is working. I believe I'm missing the high end. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Wrong thread. But when it cracked, were they dropped? Could have a damaged BA driver.

Try here:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/home-made-iems.430688/unread

https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...724857.videoBannerStyleB_top.3.39606c264PMUl1 IEM planar drivers. Would really like to see somebody review them.

Specs:

Wrong thread, this one is for Earbuds.

Try here:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/home-made-iems.430688/unread

 

[furyossa]

https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...724857.videoBannerStyleB_top.3.39606c264PMUl1 IEM planar drivers. Would really like to see somebody review them.

Specs:

It's very difficult to tune it but ... here is an example for earbuds
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/cli...uly-21-20-tws-earbud-mod.899252/post-14937629