Quote:
ortho modder rule #1 Moar bass = Moar patential
After a lot of ortho experience, I dont quite believe this. All I agree with is just that it means there is more bass.
The reason being that its sometimes very hard to get to the equilibrium point using the normal ortho modders method without making the driver sound choked or losing that bass.
In which case a more tensioned diaphragm would have already given you the same freq response with much less damping and a more open less choked sound.
Also some drivers just inherently have better timbre than others.
EG, a YH-1000 is v.bassy, but so have some HP50, whereas the HP50 were sometimes good, or some pairs boring, the YH1k was magical, but if you tried to harness that potential using the
normal ortho modding techniques of sealing and heavy damping, then the magic dissapears.
This was my problem with some of the bass heavy orthos vs ones that needed less damping. Its always about trade off though. The T30 and NAD both have crazy fun bass, but to get that playing at the same time as a good treble sparkle and sounding NATURAL and open is a tough feat. To my ears anyway, im not a great fan of reflex dots, or v.heavy damping schemes any more.
The Mylar pair is already balanced stock like a T50, but like wualta says we are all modders and tweakers lol , its like all the fun is gone when someone makes a product right from stock, its almost as if they are insulting us. Ortho heads "Make a product sound balanced from the get go! HOW DARE YOU!" lol.
The idea of earpads are good too, but theres so much to play with. I do think it had a nice timbre, so I would like to play with a bass heavy kapton pair again to see if I could make it sing using the new side of my ortho modding experience.