[joydivisi0n]

My magnum drivers came in today and after what is likely to be the ugliest soldering job out there, I am giving them their first listen.  I had botched my sr-80i drivers when I tried to transfer them to Cabillas' cups earlier this year, so my hands were trembling with fear during the entire soldering process

It turned out okay though!  Wje's electrical tape trick worked perfectly as well.  Happy with the sound I'm getting so far

 

[Chris_Himself]

Here was my process, and it was worth all the time and effort
 

 
They're the best headphones ever man... I haven't heard the T1 or HD800 yet but god I love these

 

[joydivisi0n]

Excellent use of rage comics.  Have you by chance had the opportunity to listen to magnums through a high quality copper cable?  I am curious as to how they would sound relative to a similarly priced silver recable.
 
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Here was my process, and it was worth all the time and effort
 

 
They're the best headphones ever man... I haven't heard the T1 or HD800 yet but god I love these

 

 

[Chris_Himself]

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Excellent use of rage comics.  Have you by chance had the opportunity to listen to magnums through a high quality copper cable?  I am curious as to how they would sound relative to a similarly priced silver recable.
 


 

 
I don't have copper per se, I just use this gold plated copper from Clairvoyant Cables
http://clairvoyantcables.com/id81.html
 
Anyway the Magnums in a cup sound like they'd be worth like 700 dollars haha. It's just kind of limited to a DIY product and a LITERAL 700 dollar headphone. I wrote the first part before I remembered that you can buy a production Magnum headphone lol.
 
By doing it the full custom route I think you can save a couple hundred bucks though, if you're not DIY savvy it might be worth it to order a full Magnum headphone from a builder or something
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

[chrislangley4253]

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I don't have copper per se, I just use this gold plated copper from Clairvoyant Cables
http://clairvoyantcables.com/id81.html
 
Anyway the Magnums in a cup sound like they'd be worth like 700 dollars haha. It's just kind of limited to a DIY product and a LITERAL 700 dollar headphone. I wrote the first part before I remembered that you can buy a production Magnum headphone lol.
 
By doing it the full custom route I think you can save a couple hundred bucks though, if you're not DIY savvy it might be worth it to order a full Magnum headphone from a builder or something
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I built mine full aluminum for 305 240 for the drivers and inners. 65 for some ms2i cups, and a headband/gimbals salvaged from my old sr80i's. 
 
Do you have yours in full wood or aluminum or some hybrid Chris?

 

[Chris_Himself]

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I built mine full aluminum for 305 240 for the drivers and inners. 65 for some ms2i cups, and a headband/gimbals salvaged from my old sr80i's. 
 
Do you have yours in full wood or aluminum or some hybrid Chris?

I bought the drivers. 300 ain't bad for a 700 dollar headphone build! You got off easy man!
 
Ran them in SR-60 plastic rings superglued back together and SR-225 caps for like 2 weeks.
 
I then had some Orenholtz RS-1 clones made for me a while back and they shipped to me the same time as the RS-2 cups I eventually bought from Marty and it was a tough call, but I'm a sucker for anything that says "GRADO REFERENCE SERIES". The Orenholtz are RS-1 spec though so I think if I had used them it'd sound better. I'm keeping them mint for the next person who keeps 'em.
 
I'm probably the only person on Head-fi running Magnums in stock Grado wood cups haha. 
 
I'm using Neotech 6N OCC silver wire for the cable. I'm working on having some rodblocks done for me by Orenholtz... his cups were friggin nice... I just couldn't turn down having a set of blocks made haha

 

[jinteddy7]

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Here was my process, and it was worth all the time and effort
 

 
They're the best headphones ever man... I haven't heard the T1 or HD800 yet but god I love these

lol i see someone has been reading lots of 9gag =)

 

[Chris_Himself]

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lol i see someone has been reading lots of 9gag =)

 
DUDE. You need to get your Mag's in the mail soon... I dunno how they're gonna sound in Cabillas cups... but it's ridiculous in Grado shells. Like I have the money to buy some HE-500's right now if I sell a couple of things but I have like NO desire to for once.
 
Also I think your cable was probably one of the most expensive non HD800/HD650 cables I made so you'd better enjoy the crap out of it!

 

[jinteddy7]

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DUDE. You need to get your Mag's in the mail soon... I dunno how they're gonna sound in Cabillas cups... but it's ridiculous in Grado shells. Like I have the money to buy some HE-500's right now if I sell a couple of things but I have like NO desire to for once.
 
Also I think your cable was probably one of the most expensive non HD800/HD650 cables I made so you'd better enjoy the crap out of it!

Grins =) 


 

 

[rawrster]

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They're the best headphones ever man... I haven't heard the T1 or HD800 yet but god I love these

While it's been probably 6 months since I've heard my magnums v2.5 I would be hard to choose between the T1, HD800 and the Magnums. Ofc mine has been on loan and currently in the FWJ process so they may change but they were that good to me. I still do want to pick up an HD800 down the line since the last one I heard was so damn good but I need to A/B when I get my Magnums back.
 

 

[Questhate]

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Grins =) 


 

That is a sickkkkk looking cable. 
 

 

[chrislangley4253]

awesome cable. i went grado 8 conductor on mine... for now. The price was right. 

 

[Questhate]

Yeah, Chris. If you don't mind divulging your trade secrets, where did you get those Y-splits?
 
I ordered up a bunch of Mogami cable to convert my headphones to balanced. I'm using Techflex nylon multifilament for the sleeving, but not sure how to handle the y-splits (not a fan of the heatshrink look). 
 
BTW, Rhydon should be sending out V4 drivers to me today! 

 

[Chris_Himself]

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Yeah, Chris. If you don't mind divulging your trade secrets, where did you get those Y-splits?
 
I ordered up a bunch of Mogami cable to convert my headphones to balanced. I'm using Techflex nylon multifilament for the sleeving, but not sure how to handle the y-splits (not a fan of the heatshrink look). 
 
BTW, Rhydon should be sending out V4 drivers to me today! 

Lol I have no secrets, I just braid fancy wire for my bread and butter, nothing more
 
The Y-Splits are from Viablue from Av-Outlet.com. Their checkout system doesn't work in Google Chrome for the record. They're 10 dollars apiece and you get free shipping if you spend 25, so it's an awesome chance to buy a Viablue for only 11 dollars! Of course if you guys have any questions regarding cable construction and how to build a Magnum the right way the first time around, I'd rather you guys did it right than be concerned about making a buck lol so feel free to ask me anything on this thread!
 
You can just convert your cable to balanced by splitting the end like 8" up and just reterminating them. Although the true balanced spec calls for basically a shielded wire or these days, two separate cables (one for each channel), I just like to do the dualies at the end since my wires are very whell insulated and use the litz braid to shed RFI/EMI.
 

 

[Questhate]

You are the man, Chris. That may just be the nicest cable I've seen. Can't wait to see pics of it mounted on JinTeddy's Cabillas cups.
 
How did that SJSU meet go, btw?