[elira]

Following this post with interest. As a fairly lightweight pair of cans, I'd love to add a detachable cable to The Hemp Headphone.

I recently did a detachable cable mod on a pair of SR125e and I'm now able to use the excellent 2.5mm balanced Meze 99 cable with them.

I think that the best course of action for The Hemp Headphones will be to apply heat to the cups to loosen the glue that seats the driver in the maple section of the cups. Next, wiggle the driver out, and use a reamer tool to widen the cable hole enough to seat a 3.5mm mono jack in the hole. Then, snip the cable and solder the wires to the 3/5mm mono jack tip/sleeve terminals. Voila.

The hard part is not to melt the drivers while trying to heat the cups.

 

[ksorota]

yeah, i have read the stories of melting sensitive parts on the drivers and wanted to avoid all that. I could try a blow dryer, but not sure its worth the risk...too bad for all the glue!

Although if I did melt the drivers then I could always swap in some symphones v9

 

[ParaLoganGrado]

I’m so conflicted by this discussion lol.

First of all, I'm really interested and tempted to buy the Hemp. It seems to be a great all arounder and the negatives mentioned don't seem bad enough to overlook it.

Second -- people physically modding the cans made of two different types of woods with one being a new composite and potentially messing up such a good headphone worries me.

Third -- I'm a tech geek / modder / tear crap apart and experiment kinda guy...

 

[ruthieandjohn]

Yike! To me, cutting Grado cables, reaming earpieces, and heating with a heat gun give me the same sick-to-my stomach feeling I get when thinking about doing these things to a human!

 

[ksorota]

decided to take the “safe” route and use s little heat.

Still A bit of glue to remove from the cups, but a little resanding and they will be good as new.

interesting how they color the back of the silver driver housing with dark paint/marker.

edit:
Good as new

 

[tlainhart]

The GS2000e's driver can't do sub-bass. The GS3000e can but needs EQ to reach down. The GS3000e can also slam mid-bass harder due to the cocobolo. Also the GS2000e has significant treble grain that can't be EQ'd out. I noted all this in my comparison review.

I did read your review back when posted - it is very good and appreciated. I thought that I might be able to EQ the down the treble spike, but (as you mentioned in your review) I'm one of those whose high-end hearing has deteriorated. So the spike is not as irritating as it might be for others.

But maybe it's not the spike you're talking about, but grain. I'll take a closer listen for that.

 

[Drmark]

How would you all handle this? I emailed my local dealer about checking out the GS3000e. They like appointments. No reply. So I called and spoke to someone and was told they were out of stock. Might get a set in today. Nothing about can we get your name, number... Emailed early today... no reply and still no reply to my original email from a few days ago.
I'm thinking a quick $1,800 sale is not worth much anymore locally

 

[elira]

How would you all handle this? I emailed my local dealer about checking out the GS3000e. They like appointments. No reply. So I called and spoke to someone and was told they were out of stock. Might get a set in today. Nothing about can we get your name, number... Emailed early today... no reply and still no reply to my original email from a few days ago.
I'm thinking a quick $1,800 sale is not worth much anymore locally

Some dealers only want multi-thousand dollar transactions. Most of them are used to sell complete speaker systems, a single pair of headphones isn't much.

 

[ruthieandjohn]

My guess? That local dealer does NOT have the GS3000e, does not particularly care about good service, and hence Grado is not all that excited about filling his special orders.

Instead, I suggest you get them from Todd the Vinyl Junkie (TTVJ) or the Grado store 4ourears. Like a (good) local dealer, they are like family, and both TTVJ (with his headphone loaner tours) and Grado 4ourears (with their head-fi special edition headphones HF1, HF2, and HF3 that contribute to head-fi.org and its causes) are great places to work with!

 

[Drmark]

I think I'll give them a couple more hours and look at the Grado store. Then time to sell my gs2000e's. I hope business for them is that good.

 

[Joaquin Dinero]

I think I'll give them a couple more hours and look at the Grado store. Then time to sell my gs2000e's. I hope business for them is that good.

Selling your GS2000s you say ?

*I dont need to buy his GS2000s*

*I dont need to buy his GS2000s*

*I dont need to buy his GS2000s*

*No matter how awesome they are*

*I dont need to buy his GS2000s*

*Even if they will make me completely fulfilled and I will never even look for any other headphones ever again*

*I dont need to buy his GS2000s*

*I dont need to buy his GS2000s*

 

[Drmark]

ok, no stock from Grado for at least 10 days. Nothing to make me wait. So ordered directly from Grado overnight. Is $1,000 for gs2000e a fair price?

 

[THGM]

How would you all handle this? I emailed my local dealer about checking out the GS3000e. They like appointments. No reply. So I called and spoke to someone and was told they were out of stock. Might get a set in today. Nothing about can we get your name, number... Emailed early today... no reply and still no reply to my original email from a few days ago.
I'm thinking a quick $1,800 sale is not worth much anymore locally

I caved and called them.... I know sigh... waiting for a call back on if they arrived.

If your local dealer is this disinterested when you want to give them your money, what on earth will they be like should you have a problem when you've bought them??

 

[ruhenheiM]

How would you all handle this? I emailed my local dealer about checking out the GS3000e. They like appointments. No reply. So I called and spoke to someone and was told they were out of stock. Might get a set in today. Nothing about can we get your name, number... Emailed early today... no reply and still no reply to my original email from a few days ago.
I'm thinking a quick $1,800 sale is not worth much anymore locally

find other stores, with that initial impression, i wouldn't expect much for after sales services

 

[ruhenheiM]

decided to take the “safe” route and use s little heat.

Still A bit of glue to remove from the cups, but a little resanding and they will be good as new.

interesting how they color the back of the silver driver housing with dark paint/marker.



edit:
Good as new

nice! glad you decided to took a proper way to mod it thanks for the pictures too!
wow, so 4 vent holes and no glob, combine that with flat pad.interesting