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Those are sick dude. How do you get your acrylic so clear? 3D print or cast?Just finished this triple driver .
Those are sick dude. How do you get your acrylic so clear? 3D print or cast?Just finished this triple driver .
Yeah since KZ doesn't use dampers at all that should work, although the peaks you should be focusing on here are the ones at 3/5k. In my opinion you're best off to just use the KZ drivers and redo everything else.If I wanted to tame those weird peaks around 5/7/10 k and smooth the curve would a higher ohm damper on the tweeters do the trick?
My plan was to extract the PCB and the drivers so I don’t have to mess around with making a new crossover. Use dampers to tweak from there.Yeah since KZ doesn't use dampers at all that should work, although the peaks you should be focusing on here are the ones at 3/5k. In my opinion you're best off to just use the KZ drivers and redo everything else.
Just threw together this set, my first time trying BA bass. Took less than two days to make it although I probably could have gotten the treble smoother if I spent more time experimenting with tube length. 38D1XJ, 2389 and RAD. Two tube design.
Funny, I made some iems a while back that had a very similar curve to this. To begin with I liked it, but after listening to different types of music I decided to disassemble it. Still on my to do list to redo that one, just sounds wrong with the dip over 1k and the 2k so lowMost of the older KZs actually use all the drivers, I wouldn't say that's necessarily a good thing though…
They switched to single DDs and unused drivers because they just can't tune correctly.
Funny, I made some iems a while back that had a very similar curve to this. To begin with I liked it, but after listening to different types of music I decided to disassemble it. Still on my to do list to redo that one, just sounds wrong with the dip over 1k and the 2k so low
Honestly the soundstage is nothing special, they don't really do anything exceptionally well. My previous hybrid is much better. This was more of a way for me to get some practice and test the 38D1XJ. I didn't manage to get rid of the 8-10k peak while also keeping extension, maybe a limitation of using the same tube for the RAD and 2389. I'll probably open them up again because loose components are making pinging noises when I touch the shell so I might try something different with the crossover while I'm at it. Yeah, it's the RAD 33518. I ordered a bunch of them on taobao because they were like $3.50 a piece.That is great extension, high and low, I bet the soundstage is nice. RAD 33518 (30095 basically) ?
i want all my iems to fit inside the conch so i can lay on my side with them in. honestly, this is the biggest issue i have with my blessing 2s, they stick out way too far. if i fall asleep with them in i have a 50/50 chance of waking up with a tonne of ear pain. plus i cant use my fiio utws3 with them because the shape of the utws pushes my ear forward a bit, and the blessing 2s push my ears back a bit basically resulting in a pinching which once again hurts a bunch if i wear them for more than an hour in a day.On another subject, do any of you have any rules for how big an iem should be? Mine have been getting progressively smaller and I don't like anything that sticks out at all. Obviously sometimes you might not have a choice but are there any rules of thumb?
This particular ciem (on the left - and not made by me) sticks out so much I don't use it. I'm planning to cut it down to size at some point as there is plenty of room
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Its a Nice-fit resin from soundlink from aliexpress . Its doesn’t get yellow (its cast).Those are sick dude. How do you get your acrylic so clear? 3D print or cast?
thanks @piotrus-gNo, exactly opposite, we are wiring CIs in reversed phase to use TWFK in positive phase and take advantage of the factory wiring.
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I think @swtnate could chime in on that, IIRC he did some testing
BTW looks like I just should go and assemble one with pictures for you guys haha
no idea when I would have the time to do it.
Thin film resistors also add considerably to the THD as well. MELFs will not. They are significantly quieter.thanks @piotrus-g
Thin film resistors are work great in the beginning. However, the ones available for our use have a larger deviation (up to 5-10%) so, I have since switched to using SMD MELF resistors. The tolerance on these are 0.5%-1%.