One thing I left out was the plastic-ring, as I wrongly thought the effect of modding it would be negligible.. the serious face early on grew into a discontent as I heard more albums. Dominici - O3: A Trilogy, Part Three the synth somewhat drowned in the phat mix of the double kick drums, but the oomph was good on albums mixed like Testament - The Formation of Damnation. There was only one thing to do...
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3. Get rid of the plastic ring, down by the grill, as well a the plastic button that's stuck smack dab in the middle of your rear screen. These pieces of plastic add resonance of the worst kind. Getting rid of them will tame unnecessarily high-mid spikes, the kind that annoy the dickens out of you when you crank up the volume.
I've already used bitumen excessively as adhesive felt is more suited for wood, only problem with bitumen is the weight. Later on I have to open up the headband and stuff it with some foam, as of now I can tell that the blood circulation on top of my head is not optimal.
Removing the plastic ring down by the grill transformed my cans into some surprisingly shrill sounding alu 325is (US made BTW), smearing out finer details.. it snapped for me and I ripped the cans off and took a break and a cigarette.
Going back to the rings, four notches.. well, the ring broke easy into four pieces and each of them got the same treatment producing the right size of the support. Beforehand the plastic housing of the transducer had nowhere to stop when I put it all together and created an everlasting problem.. of annoyance as there never was any coherence what-so-ever between left and right.. again an unbalance.
Two eights of the ring and of course more bitumen took care of the unbalance and most of the shrill..
The result is I'm now hearing where the drummer hits the cymbals and how hard the skin of the drums are, the growls of Chuck Billy has a nice rasp, the solos are liquid and the timbre bla bla bla...
Analyzing is not fun, it's not life and that's how I'm hearing the music now, the drive and energy is, yes ehh.. in Norwegian "snert" of the whip, the transients are just right and fast as hell. Right amount, realistic and bla bla... hmm.... yes, even the bass is where it should be.. down there.
Some shrillness remains, but dampening it would make it all collapse as it's as much a fault of the mix as my cans. I think I'm happy with this for now..
..checking Dominici... the double kick drums in this mix is insane (and somewhat boomy/ in your face), not my frickin' problem!
Edit: I might in the future worry about an alternative to the grills or maybe removing them, as I clearly hear the flutter echo created by my palms an inch away from the grills.
Edit II: Darn diddely frickin' doo.. had a look at the picture above and you've guessed right, more bitumen.. on the visible alu-ring beneath the grill is the next task, but now back to listening to those old albums that's suddenly all fresh!