[tunarat]

 
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Analogue sound.  That's what it is.  Orthodynamics have a genuine analogue sound, with all the precision of digital.  When I keep switching cans...the HD650s come of more...digital sounding.  These HD650s are renowned for sounding tube like.  Ortho's don't sound tube like...they sound analogue.  Period.x
 

 
Nice pull, that's what I get with the LCD-2's. With the Audeze and tube amplification, headphonia has finally come of age, imo
 

 

[dBel84]

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Anyone got a link to the TP kit?  Cant seem to find it.

Not so much a kit as momo offering a spare set
 
Not so much a headphone mod but I decided to make a stand with some driftwood that I picked up in Oregon  - now my zebs have a place to hang out.
 

 
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[sachu]

that's so wicked Don

I love it.

 

[i_djoel2000]

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Not so much a kit as momo offering a spare set
 
Not so much a headphone mod but I decided to make a stand with some driftwood that I picked up in Oregon  - now my zebs have a place to hang out.
 

 
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awesome stuffs Don..
 
those old school wood carving headphone stand and wooded amp remind me of the furnitures in flinstone movie

 

 

[wualta]

Yes, and has anyone considered the resonance properties of  headphone cups made of rock?
 
More seriously, some sort of synthetic rock, like Corian?

 

[dBel84]

"rock on" ..dB

 

[wualta]

This wacko suggestion belongs more properly in the Thunderpants thread. But yes, rock. You'll get the macho neck-muscle strengthening experience that separates the bulls from the calves, and have a headphone with the resonance properties of a headstone. Something to think about.
Don, how's it feel to be literally surrounded by beer?

 

[dBel84]

Beer?? fornicating in a row boat , homeopathy ...... many more descriptives but beer?

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edit - humble pie time
 
Just got back from a tour of the Sprecher brewery - they do in fact make great beer in Milwaukee  -  the Oktober, Belgian, IPA, Piper - all tasted really good. Now I am not a soda drinker but these sodas are truly world class. Glad I took the kids request up to go and try their wares!!
 

 

 

[Armaegis]

Going for that rocky canyon reverb in your headphones? Could be interesting...
 
Better yet, use a geode on each side. That's geode, not geodude.

 

[wualta]

A geode cup sounds nice and sparkly. Maybe an abalone shell for a lightweight portable version.
 
EDIT: Looks good, Don. I wonder if we have Sprecher products over here, directly across the Big Lake...

 

[joelpearce]

Geodes would be better if they were pretty on the outside, rather than the inside.
 
I guess at least you could hit people with them when they laughed at you.

 

[Armaegis]

Or heatbutt them!
 
 
 
 
 
(... earbutting? that just sounds weird...)

 

[wualta]

The interior of a geode cup would resemble in miniature the wedges of an anechoic chamber, acting as a diffusor, breaking up reflections without having to absorb all of them (which is impossible anyway). Not a bad idea, easily molded into a standard driver cup. I've never seen anything but smooth cup interiors, though, many with parallel walls. Possible opportunity for a low-cost improvement in the closed-cup category.
 
I was going to attempt a joke about the ear appreciating the sparkly interior of a geode cup in the same way that ears are supposed to appreciate frequencies outside the range of human hearing (if ultrasonics, why not color?), but never mind.

 

[joelpearce]

I'm not an expert on physics or sound science, but is that really the goal of closed headphones?  Surely, if the ideal was to create an inner chamber that would absorb as much sound as possible, then manufacturers would have tried something along those lines before.  
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The interior of a geode cup would resemble in miniature the wedges of an anechoic chamber, acting as a diffusor, breaking up reflections without having to absorb all of them (which is impossible anyway). Not a bad idea, easily molded into a standard driver cup. I've never seen anything but smooth cup interiors, though, many with parallel walls. Possible opportunity for a low-cost improvement in the closed-cup category.
 

 

[wualta]

It's the goal if you have an open dipole driver as in stats and orthos. You've got to do something with the back output, since we know that uncontrolled reflection back through the driver doesn't sound good. You can reflect it outward, as in the Eagle 4300, or downward, as in the Marantz SE-1 'stat, but you have to deal with it somehow, and if the headphone is to be truly closed, not just vented-closed, this means an acoustic absorbent, plus, we'd like to think, something that will randomize the reflections and make them take longer paths.
 
It's just a thought experiment at the moment. Only Smeggy would be eccentric enough to follow through with this...