Haha, I'm down for such a shirt!
And you wouldn't have guessed but that was exactly what I did at the fabric store where I got my pleather lol. Yeah I did somewhat get some odd stares, but it was all good. The lady that cut the pleather for me was perhaps somewhat impressed to see a
male in the store, buying stuff for himself. This one is nice and comfortable, although perhaps not as much on such a small scale. It may be easier making new pads for my T50RP... turns out the cutout I had for the HP-1 was more around the pad size of a HP-2! remake I go.
So as you can see the HP-2 I acquired today already got gutted. It was in a rather poor shape: the suspension headband was cracked on all four; the earpads were flaking; the foam inside is flattened, somewhat disintegrated (as documented long ago in this thread) and reeks of cigarette smoke; and the cables are exposed at one part. Everything else worked flawlessly, including the sound.
The picture above shows the The Headphone People Headgear 2001 with HP-2 drivers inside. It doesn't fit as flush as the HP-1 driver (which thus doesn't fit) so I had to find a way to keep it in place. The pads I am using are the stock Headgear 2001 pads sitting on top of the stock flaky HP-2 pads. It was what gave me to best sound out of the box. The fact that it was also the most comfortable combo came as a well appreciated bonus.
Excuse my legs. That's how I work on headphones btw. Bad for my posture...
The interior is laid out like this: deep inside the cup I lined a half-layer of the stiff craft foam (red) I previously bought to mod the HP-1 and didn't work. Next is the stock open cell foam from the Headgear 2001 on which the driver sits on. I used each of the thicker pieces of black felt from the HP-2 cups to keep the driver from moving around, and used cotton to fill the remaining 1/8 of the circumference. A small rectangle of tape as reflex box sits behind the driver.
Finally, not the coolest way to do it, but I put a ring of blue tack on the baffle and pressed it tight to form a seal (hopefully). Since the whole setup cannot be mounted if the driver is already sitting on the baffle, this is the only workaround.
Sound?
This is really not an accurate reading of white noise (heck it was done on an iPhone4S w/ the apple earbud inline mic sitting on my ear) but it gives a general idea... Anything below 250Hz does not get recorded. The obvious peaks and troughs are generally pretty well portrayed and can be confirmed with audacity tone generator.
This graph does not represent really anything extraordinary... compared to any other of my modded headphones (the recorded part on the bottom) these measure the worst (well, debatable), but for the first time the treble peak is beyond my audible range.
I'm not sure how well this sounds compared to the stock HP-2 but I am liking it very much! I may be able to improve the readings by adding one layer of the felt-like cloth I used in the HP-1 mod... I'll have to try, and suffer having to fix the blue tack seal again. Really liking how this is now really open back and sounds quite decent. The new red accent is nice too
Way past my normal sleeping hours but it was worth it! Maybe I'll post the measurements I got with my other cans.
The program is optimized for the inline speaker
i think so maybe some measurement limitations have been accounted for and balanced...?
**EDIT** well the clamping force might still prevent me from wearing this for long periods... No matter how i bend this thing it won't loosen up. I can get it curved backwards and no plastic bending!
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