[LarsHP]

As bitsnbytes says the purpose of the original quarter foam is to keep your ear from touching the grill, and most likely also to tame some of the treble down. If you plan to do the "Fuzzor" mod, putting felt on the inner grill, the point of having the original quarter foam there is pretty much gone IMO.

 

[hennessys]

  My second hand HE-6s have a small 1cm wide semi curved strip of felt applied to the upper edge of the upper quadrant of the inner driver surface...the triangular foam piece was not there...
 
Do I need to refit the foam triangles and what do they do?

 
Ciao Guido,
 
Good to see you made the move and finally joined the club
 
The felt covers the quarter of the circle normally.
There are various possibilities to play with it from removing the felt completely, using different size / layers or applying a fuzor mod. Your mod probably intent to widen the sound stage and make it sound clearer (pls correct me if I’m wrong).
 
Changing it back is up to you, but I would listen to it for a while to see if you like it. There is no reason to change it if it suits you. If you get a chance, try to get an unmodded HE6 for a few days from someone around to compare.

 

[guido]

Howdy...nice to hear from you!
 
Yep, loving the HE-6s ...running them off 2 Norh LeAmp monoblocks and they sound stunning.
 
So far I have removed the gauze, foam and cotton wool from the outer driver side and I like how they sound. I do not yet feel the need to do a fuzzor mod...I do not have a problem with the treble.
 
I do want to get rid of the XLR female  4 wire adaptor and simply hardwire the copper Hifiman cable to 4 speaker banana plugs...one less cable and 2 connectors out of the equation can only be good...
 
Ciao
 
 

 

[hennessys]

Yup, hardwire these cans is the way to go.
I opted for a safer approach for the time being and got a Mogami 2534 straight between the speaker taps and the HE-6 connectors. Love it.

 

[guido]

  Yup, hardwire these cans is the way to go.
I opted for a safer approach for the time being and got a Mogami 2534 straight between the speaker taps and the HE-6 connectors. Love it.

Ok, I just finished recabling the HE-6s with Mogami 2534 straight to the monoblocks...lets see.....

 

[hennessys]

 
Ok, I just finished recabling the HE-6s with Mogami 2534 straight to the monoblocks...lets see.....

Man, you are not joking around.
 
Careful not to blow it. Speaker amps for headphones forum has all the details, but to tell you the truth i just play careful with the volume. Turn it to 0 before turning the amp on/off.

 

[guido]

yep, very careful! 

 
 

 

[hennessys]

Nice,

If i manage to swap my wsurf to a MTB i might swing by for a session

 

[musicinmymind]

  yep, very careful! 

 
 
 

 
did you swap the cables to A/B SQ difference with Hardwire? with all other mods you are doing hardwire may not have effected at all
 
I am getting Mundorf Silver/Gold wire and planing to hardwire as well and interested in your findings.
 
 

 

[guido]

   
did you swap the cables to A/B SQ difference with Hardwire? with all other mods you are doing hardwire may not have effected at all
 
I am getting Mundorf Silver/Gold wire and planing to hardwire as well and interested in your findings.
 
 

 
To be perfectly honest it sounds exactly the same with the Mogami hardwired...I am not a big believer in the cable hype..it just looks neater and is more manageable

 

[musicinmymind]

 
 

 

   
did you swap the cables to A/B SQ difference with Hardwire? with all other mods you are doing hardwire may not have effected at all
 
I am getting Mundorf Silver/Gold wire and planing to hardwire as well and interested in your findings.
 
 

 
To be perfectly honest it sounds exactly the same with the Mogami hardwired...I am not a big believer in the cable hype..it just looks neater and is more manageable

 
even I was not a believer, till I custom build this wire using same Mogomi wire you have. It made HE-6 sound thin, sole and body HE-6 know for went missing. May be braiding I used, messed it up.
 
but I am firm believer now.
 

 

[Armaegis]

   
 
 
even I was not a believer, till I custom build this wire using same Mogomi wire you have. It made HE-6 sound thin, sole and body HE-6 know for went missing. May be braiding I used, messed it up.
 
but I am firm believer now.
 

 
That's a very tight braid and looking at it I think all your wires are twisting in the same direction as well. You could have very well induced capacitance in the cable which acts as a high pass filter, rolling off the low end and sucking the "body" out of the sound.
 
That's just my edumacated guess though. *shrug*
 
 

 

[musicinmymind]

 

   
 
 
even I was not a believer, till I custom build this wire using same Mogomi wire you have. It made HE-6 sound thin, sole and body HE-6 know for went missing. May be braiding I used, messed it up.
 
but I am firm believer now.
 
 

 
That's a very tight braid and looking at it I think all your wires are twisting in the same direction as well. You could have very well induced capacitance in the cable which acts as a high pass filter, rolling off the low end and sucking the "body" out of the sound.
 
That's just my edumacated guess though. *shrug*
 
 
 

 
You guess could be correct thanks for pointing it out, anyway I already trashed that cable that's where it belongs. Sad part is, I had spend lot of money and time making it...

....good learning experience though.
 
Davialet 120 ->HE-6 is  already a trilling setup, on par with BHSE->SR009. But I want to check what difference will Mundorf Silver/Gold hardwire will make, this time I will do regular braid.

 

[wuwhere]

   
That's a very tight braid and looking at it I think all your wires are twisting in the same direction as well. You could have very well induced capacitance in the cable which acts as a high pass filter, rolling off the low end and sucking the "body" out of the sound.
 
That's just my edumacated guess though. *shrug*
 
 

 
Don't you mean high inductance? Its the same with using resistors with high inductance

 

[Armaegis]

It could be both.