Orthodynamic Roundup

[Faust2D]

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Oh yeah..moar orthoz is always good..but yeah the gold seems like an audiophile gimmick to ask a higher price. What amazes me is that they are putting out so many orthos in under a year with no documented background in developing planar drivers. I mean they were using pics form the wikiphonia of the yamaha drivers in their slides. Come on!!
I would like some effort put into damping them right and also have tight tolerances in their driver manufacturing. The impressions of even the HE-5LE seems to be all over the place not to mention the driver failures in the HE-5.

 
Where is my royalties check!? On Head-Fi review thread the is a picture of DT220 that I took especially for wikiphonia as well, do I get a cookie for that or what?

 

 

[smeggy]

*hands faust a cookie*

 

[Faust2D]

 
Nom nom nom nom....

 

[smeggy]

cuuuuuute, he has little pinky-toes and everything!

 

[wualta]

Mascot!

 

[Faust2D]

Ortho cookie hamster? Cookie ortho hamster?

 

[sachu]

sooo..it is confirmed that the diaphragm material on the HE-5LE is mylar..isn't polyimide supposed to be a better material to use? 

 

[Sambones]

Hey, I'm wanting to replace the headband on my Pro 30. Does anyone know of a folding, metal-framed headphone set that's cheapish? The Pro 30's got a 2" diameter yoke.

 

[wualta]

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sooo..it is confirmed that the diaphragm material on the HE-5LE is mylar..isn't polyimide supposed to be a better material to use? 

Good question. It's more costly, always seemed less elastic (ie, stiffer for a given thickness) than Mylar, has a jawdroppingly high tolerance for heat (400 degrees Celsius). I suppose if you were afraid someone would actually put 15w 20dB beyond clipping through the voice coil and the expectation was the diaphragm would melt before the adhesive let go, you might well reach for the Kapton.
 
So no, I don't think it's necessarily better in this case. Now, if you built a stupidly-inefficient isodynamic tweeter... and I used to have a collection of KLH isodynamic tweeters with heat-rippled Kapton diaphragms... but speakers are another matter entirely.
 
Take a look. I almost fell over when I saw an old darkroom chemical, paraphenylene diamine, being used to increase the stiffness of Kapton.  http://www2.dupont.com/Kapton/en_US/assets/downloads/pdf/fpc-tab.pdf
 
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Ortho cookie hamster? Cookie ortho hamster?

Cookie the Orthohamster! perfect. He'd be like Rhino in Bolt, except he'd be a headphone geek.
And anytime someone took a good photo or successfully explained a puzzling headphone phenomenon, Cookie would show up to give that person his cookie.
 
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Hey, I'm wanting to replace the headband on my Pro 30. Does anyone know of a folding, metal-framed headphone set that's cheapish? The Pro 30's got a 2" diameter yoke.

You just need something that folds? or does it have to be metal for a different reason? Since the thing was in all probability an Audio-Technica OEM, take a look through their catalog. I'm thinking FC700?
 

 

[SillyHoney]

Hi everybody! I'm thinking of buying a HP-2 since ortho are getting a lot of attention these days especially after me reading on LCD-2 (blame sachu for writing such a beautiful review on a headphone that I cannot afford

). Will the HP-2 sound good as is? Or it need a lot of mod? I know nothing about modding so I'm kinda scare

 

[kwkarth]

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Ortho cookie hamster? Cookie ortho hamster?

That hamster looks anything but planar... 

 

[wualta]

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Hi everybody! I'm thinking of buying a HP-2 since ortho are getting a lot of attention these days especially after me reading on LCD-2 (blame sachu for writing such a beautiful review on a headphone that I cannot afford

). Will the HP-2 sound good as is? Or it need a lot of mod? I know nothing about modding so I'm kinda scare

You have every right to be scare, but it's really not that hard. Is there an Ortho person near you who can give you a boost, and lend you a phillips head screwdriver or two? Once you get the HP-2 open, you'll say "Oh! the people who made this are no more intelligent than I! This will be simple and fun!" Attitude is everything. Afterward, you'll say "Gee! is that all there is?"
 
Some HP-2s will sound decent right off. The earliest ones will have square holes in the magnets. Look for one of those. Otherwise just grab the first reasonably-priced one.
 

 

[Faust2D]

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That hamster looks anything but planar... 

Ok I will play. I present to you the semi-official unofficial Ortho thread mascot.
 

 

[Kabeer]

How could you guys forget the Aiwa damping mascot!!!:

 
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So there I was cutting out damping discs for my gazzilionth Aiwa damping scheme, and lo' and behold the ortho damping mascot appeared before me!

Does felt have hallucinogenic properties?

 

 

[kwkarth]

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Ok I will play. I present to you the semi-official unofficial Ortho thread mascot.
 

Now you're talkin'!!  An ortho-planar squirrel!  Outstanding!