[AppleheadMay]

Awesome looking cans. One day ill mod mine outside of just cable after i get a second pair. How do you find the black scorpian cable as i couldnt a/b mine except through memory.

 
Thanks! I know you like the TH-900 a lot and am convinced the Lawton will amaze you.
 
Well, I was pretty sceptic about recabling which is why I had 2 pairs with Lawton type 5 wood. 
That way I could compare apples to apples and sell of the recabled pair in case I wouldn't like the recabling.
That's what I thought would happen. Turned out the other way though, the pair with the stock cable is up for sale now.
 
Just like the mods are an eye-opener when you compare them to stock the cable made me shake my head and wonder how this guy does it.
You don't even need to A/B them, just like the mods the recabling is easily heard. Mark has experimented for years with the Denons before he started to sell the mods. When it comes to cables, he just about tried them all before deciding on the Jena Labs wire.
 
My impressions:
We all heard how better gear can let you hear more in your recording, or things you didn't even know that were there.
I've heard it all before so nothing new there but what the cable does is open up another layer of depth in the sound.
You can't just only hear the picking of the strings on a violin, bass or cello anymore, it's like you hear the reverb and flavor the wood gives to it.
Hard to describe. Very detailed sound, very revealing, lovely on medium to well recorded material but not forgiving on poorly recorded of course, the more detail you get out of a component (phones, amp, dac, etc ...) the less forgving it will be.
 
All in all, my LA-900 combined with the Zana is the best I've ever heard and I've heard quite a lot.
I'll be comparing my gear with some other gear that interests me or deserves a second try IMO beginning of August at HiFi Lounge UK and end of August at CanJam London. Gear that's on my mind and consideration list is in my profile.
 
I hope to soon be able to compare the type 5 I have now to the type 1 that should be arriving here in 3-4 weeks. I first ordered it without the cable but quickly added a cable to the order this week. Says enough I suppose.

 

[goropeza]

Thanks for the impressions Apple! Im still waiting on Mark to send word to send mine over (already paid for), and I just cant wait. Congratz on your new babies.

 

[AppleheadMay]

nice looking ear cups but it's not really a fostex anymore - not even in name only

 
You could compare it to a kid. When it grows up it's not a kid anymore but it's still the same person.  

 

[AppleheadMay]

 

 
Thanks, I really like their looks, never thought they would come out as pretty as the Mun Ebonys.
What wood did you order?

 

[Whazzzup]

Awesome looking cans. One day ill mod mine outside of just cable after i get a second pair. How do you find the black scorpian cable as i couldnt a/b mine except through memory.

Thanks! I know you like the TH-900 a lot and am convinced the Lawton will amaze you.

Well, I was pretty sceptic about recabling which is why I had 2 pairs with Lawton type 5 wood. 
That way I could compare apples to apples and sell of the recabled pair in case I wouldn't like the recabling.
That's what I thought would happen. Turned out the other way though, the pair with the stock cable is up for sale now.

Just like the mods are an eye-opener when you compare them to stock the cable made me shake my head and wonder how this guy does it.
You don't even need to A/B them, just like the mods the recabling is easily heard. Mark has experimented for years with the Denons before he started to sell the mods. When it comes to cables, he just about tried them all before deciding on the Jena Labs wire.

My impressions:
We all heard how better gear can let you hear more in your recording, or things you didn't even know that were there.
I've heard it all before so nothing new there but what the cable does is open up another layer of depth in the sound.
You can't just only hear the picking of the strings on a violin, bass or cello anymore, it's like you hear the reverb and flavor the wood gives to it.
Hard to describe. Very detailed sound, very revealing, lovely on medium to well recorded material but not forgiving on poorly recorded of course, the more detail you get out of a component (phones, amp, dac, etc ...) the less forgving it will be.

All in all, my LA-900 combined with the Zana is the best I've ever heard and I've heard quite a lot.
I'll be comparing my gear with some other gear that interests me or deserves a second try IMO beginning of August at HiFi Lounge UK and end of August at CanJam London. Gear that's on my mind and consideration list is in my profile.

I hope to soon be able to compare the type 5 I have now to the type 1 that should be arriving here in 3-4 weeks. I first ordered it without the cable but quickly added a cable to the order this week. Says enough I suppose.

Thanks for the comparison, i thought i heard better depth and clarity but after ten weeks it was difficult to say absolutly. I will eventually buy another th900 which i love. Complete the full mod on my black scorpian and really would like to recable the new pair with double helix compliment three copper silver type 4 litz. Till then like what i got anyway.

 

[up late]

You could compare it to a kid. When it grows up it's not a kid anymore but it's still the same person.  

nah - i think it's more like someone who's had so much plastic surgery that they're almost unrecognisable

 

[AppleheadMay]

 

 
 
The nice thing of having two pairs is actually having one pair to look at when you listen to the other.  

Damn these things look good!

 

[up late]

or you could listen in front of the mirror

 

[AppleheadMay]

or you could listen in front of the mirror

 
Won't work, I'm not as good looking as the cups.   

 

[up late]

but think of the money you'd save which you could put towards a totally different can or your music collection

 

[AppleheadMay]

but think of the money you'd save which you could put towards a totally different can or your music collection

 
... or plastic surgery.  

 

[up late]

maybe you could go for a marbled african ebony look

 

[AppleheadMay]

maybe you could go for a marbled african ebony look

 
Michael Jackson style?

 

[up late]

think that was more alabaster

 

[AppleheadMay]

think that was more alabaster

 
 
In the end, yeah.