elmoe
Formerly known as JashuganHeadphoneus Supremus
Hair dryer probably. It takes some patience, but makes for a clean job.
Hi,
Having read through a sizeable proportion of this thread, I've become suddenly appealed to the idea of building my own pair of Grado-stein headphones. All the posts in here have been really informative about the process and ideas!
Having looked at specifically what @wje did, I was thinking about using a cheap pair of headphones (urbanears, wesc) as donors for the headband and acquiring a set of sennheiser PX100's for the drivers. The biggest issue, however, I'm going to guess is acquiring/making the cups. Having followed a lot of the progress on here, I've got a good idea of the construction of the cups, but I unfortunately don't really have the tools or expertise to be able to replicate them. I also don't have a pair of grados to get the measurements from. I was therefore wondering if anyone on this thread had any spare or old wooden cups, and whether you would be interested in selling them to form the basis of a first time project. I am fully aware that places like Turbulent Labs and Martin Custom Audio do some fantastic work selling absolutely beautiful cups, but given their quality, the price is a little more than I can justify at this stage for a first venture into headphone modding territory!
Any advice with dimensions or on whether the size of px100 drivers would be compatible with grado cups would also be much appreciated!
Thanks, J
recabled an old grado sr60. the old hd414 pads i had on them were disintegrating so i switched the L-pads from another grado onto these (the other grado is getting some ttvj flats today!)...auvio headband. mogami cable, red paracord, switchcraft 3.5mm plug. nothing special...still think it sounds terrific.
That red paracord looks great. I think I'm going to borrow that idea for my SennGrados once I get them built. I plan on coloring the grills red.
Carried out some radical surgery on a battered set of SR-125 drivers/SR-325 cups I got for cheap. As the diaphragm of one of the drivers was coming loose, I had to 'decapitate' the driver to open it up and fix the issue. The next step was to make wood inserts for the drivers. Made some rosewood and limba ones and finally ended up using the limba set. Finally I applied some (serious) damping on the back of the drivers, since the drivers came with a comple hole-punch mod that completely bloated the bass. Sounds very decent.