Tapiozona
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Well I just finished my first set of woodies for my Denon D2000's. Special thanks to Musicman59 and Lad27 for inspiring me to try and make these. (they probably don't know they inspired me but they did).
I made these out of zebrawood and gave them a gloss polyurethane finish for durability. Plus I'm a sucker for shiny wood.
I had to make some minor modifications to the headphones themselves to make these work better. Overall the volume of air within the cups is about 10% larger and the inside shaped into more of a shallow bowl shape. I also added a rubber strip into the gap on the far edge of the headphones (where the groove on the cups normally sits) to better seal the headphones. The overall effect is quite drastic.
Unfortunately, I've had the headphones in pieces for so long that I can't exactly remember how they sound so an honest comparison to the new woodied version is somewhat difficult. From what I can remember here's what I've noticed. The new woodied version is WAAAY more detailed. When I first had the D2000's I was amazed at all the minute details I heard. Now it seems like its 2 fold better. The soundstage is greatly improved and the overall sound seems to be a bit warmer but on the flip side it seems like they sound more hollow. The mids are much more present but again, on the flip side, the bass has been amplified. I did markl mod the inside of the cups and its very apparent that the bass is much tigher and sounds very crisp and accurate, just in greater intensity (probably from sealing the cans with the rubber strip).
By far the greatest differnce is the fact that these phones literally leak almost no noise. I use these primarly at work so the D2000's weren't exactly the greatest choice of cans for me. With the new mods they hold sound in sooo much better that I can really turn the volume up and enjoy myself with little worry of bothering those around me.
All in all I havent decided whether or not I prefer the sound changes but my initial reaction and that of the coworkers around me was "WOW, the bass sounds incredible and everything is so much more pronounced and detailed". I'll have to give them more time to see if the open, hollowish sound I'm hearing is something I like or not. Maybe its just soundstage, I don't know. I'm still relatively new to this head-fi thing so I have never experienced incredible soundstage.
Maybe someone else would be interesting in adding the rubber strip to seal them up and tell me what they think. I used Screening Spline (thin rubber strip used to replace window screens) from Home Depot. I bought a few different thicknesses to find the right one. It only takes a few minutes to add.
Oh ya. It's a good thing these are very comfortable cans because they now weigh a lot more from the wood and dynamat.
Oh ya, Oh ya. I also recabled them with D5000 cables
I made these out of zebrawood and gave them a gloss polyurethane finish for durability. Plus I'm a sucker for shiny wood.
I had to make some minor modifications to the headphones themselves to make these work better. Overall the volume of air within the cups is about 10% larger and the inside shaped into more of a shallow bowl shape. I also added a rubber strip into the gap on the far edge of the headphones (where the groove on the cups normally sits) to better seal the headphones. The overall effect is quite drastic.
Unfortunately, I've had the headphones in pieces for so long that I can't exactly remember how they sound so an honest comparison to the new woodied version is somewhat difficult. From what I can remember here's what I've noticed. The new woodied version is WAAAY more detailed. When I first had the D2000's I was amazed at all the minute details I heard. Now it seems like its 2 fold better. The soundstage is greatly improved and the overall sound seems to be a bit warmer but on the flip side it seems like they sound more hollow. The mids are much more present but again, on the flip side, the bass has been amplified. I did markl mod the inside of the cups and its very apparent that the bass is much tigher and sounds very crisp and accurate, just in greater intensity (probably from sealing the cans with the rubber strip).
By far the greatest differnce is the fact that these phones literally leak almost no noise. I use these primarly at work so the D2000's weren't exactly the greatest choice of cans for me. With the new mods they hold sound in sooo much better that I can really turn the volume up and enjoy myself with little worry of bothering those around me.
All in all I havent decided whether or not I prefer the sound changes but my initial reaction and that of the coworkers around me was "WOW, the bass sounds incredible and everything is so much more pronounced and detailed". I'll have to give them more time to see if the open, hollowish sound I'm hearing is something I like or not. Maybe its just soundstage, I don't know. I'm still relatively new to this head-fi thing so I have never experienced incredible soundstage.
Maybe someone else would be interesting in adding the rubber strip to seal them up and tell me what they think. I used Screening Spline (thin rubber strip used to replace window screens) from Home Depot. I bought a few different thicknesses to find the right one. It only takes a few minutes to add.
Oh ya. It's a good thing these are very comfortable cans because they now weigh a lot more from the wood and dynamat.
Oh ya, Oh ya. I also recabled them with D5000 cables
