Sambones
500+ Head-Fier
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Maybe I'm not a true audiophile, but I don't think I'm willing to go that extra 27 miles for perfect sound....Wow.....
Maybe I'm not a true audiophile, but I don't think I'm willing to go that extra 27 miles for perfect sound....Wow.....
That sealer is very important. Nothing worse than humid bass. Makes mold grow on the woofer.
The funny thing is that there's no guarantee that after you do all this stuff that the final result will be something whose quality is commensurate with the effort involved. It's still just a couple of speakers stuck in a room. Of course, it's likely to sound about as good as "couple of speakers stuck in a room" will ever sound. But what do you do if you decide you want to do something as trivial as toe them in?
Not that you all shouldn't rush right out and begin construction immediately, it's just a random thought. [smirks horribly]
That's not just a safeguard, BMF, but it's a convenience too. It's been my experience with computers, but I'm sure it extends to speakers too: invisible equipment makes it act better. It just feels better to not have any visible "spaghetti" or equipment. It makes working on it sheer hell, but it's nice when everything works.
That's not just a safeguard, BMF, but it's a convenience too. It's been my experience with computers, but I'm sure it extends to speakers too: invisible equipment makes it act better. It just feels better to not have any visible "spaghetti" or equipment. It makes working on it sheer hell, but it's nice when everything works.
Hi Guys,
First post - have just resurrected my old Yamaha HP1s (had been laying about 15 years) to listen to my Beresford Caiman DAC and they sound great - but the head strap is pants so thought they were for the bin.
Went to local Hi_Fi shops and they said Grados - they had never heard of HP1s - they weren't born then - have looked at the front and back of this thread (haven't the stamina for the 993 pages in the middle! !!).
Am listening to them now and just ace - though maybe the Caiman helps - so to save me reading 995 pages - do I fix the headstrap or buy summat else - and I want same sort of semi-enclosure. Boy they do sound great on this DAC - the base is the big surprise - but surely in 35 years headphones will be a lot better ?? Bits I have seen of this thread put that in question.
Steve
While agreeing with KWK, let me add that yes, headphones have, overall, gotten much better. The average headphone of the 1970s sounded limp and gutless and hollow and nasal. Nowadays you can buy cheerful-cheaps like the Koss KSC-75 and get great sound for pocket change. That never happened 35 years ago.
However, I would argue that the Yamaha HP-1 had much more performance built into it than 99.9% of its non-electrostat contemporaries, and if it had been allowed to live up to its potential, it would have been a world beater in its price category. Bringing this performance out 30 years later is relatively painless, so it's a why-the-hell-not fun / educational project.
That's the modest intent of this thread, so though there are many adventures on the Ortho road, you don't need to read the giant lab notebook that this thread has become to live them to the full. An old HP-1 with a chewed-off head strap is an excellent place to start.
Don't forget you have the special search engine and the Wikiphonia to help. So pull up a phillips screwdriver and tuck in. By the way, people have made replacement HP-1 head straps from pants. Well, trousers. Blue jeans, to be exact.