[Ufasas]

Chinese pads arrived, sound's warm, hip hop/rap sounds great with that warm bass, games a tad bassier, and harder to pin point sound cues in fps unlike with k702, probably would EQ it for games. Also like comfort with these, sits on head well, and you can turn your head left right more comfortably

 

[Ufasas]

What is the correct wiring here ?

 

[Yevgen Chupak]

Just unscrew those cups and u will see what colors are in the LEFT and RIGHT cups. Then follow simple guide

 

[Yevgen Chupak]

Wiring in the left cup

 

[Yevgen Chupak]

Right cup

 

[Ufasas]

Boom, done, not a rocket science, lol, thanks! can make it work again 10 years hopefuly

 

[capybara is mine]

I want to remind anyone new to the MA900s to try playing with the position of the headphones on your head. I find these headphones respond a lot to being moved forward or backwards. It seems that moving them all of the way forward so that the slanted earpads are tucked tightly in behind your outer ear works like a tone control and shifts the center of the tone lower and calms an overly bright treble. Whereas moving them back to center or even as far back as they can go adds a lot of energy to the treble. Because of the slanted earpads and the large drivers, you can change the position of these headphones a lot compared to other headphones, as there is a lot of space inside the headphone.

With the setup I described above, I find they sound best as far forward as possible since the iCAN 3D effect does boost the upper mids and lower treble. So shifting the headphones forwards balances this out and brings back a warmer sound. This effect can work like a quick and simple EQ where you can adjust the tone to suit your mood or the particular recording you are listening to.

The position also affects the soundstage with the forward position giving the most open spacious sound. I recently read a description of Ultrasone's S-Logic that suggested much of what they feel makes the soundstage more natural in their headphones is the position of the driver. Specifically, they feel that the driver should be further forward and down low, so that the sound enters your ear canal after reflecting off of the outer ear, which is the more typical way sound enters your ear when listening to speakers or live music. So maybe it also makes sense that I like wearing my Sony's as far forward and also as low down on my head as possible most of the time. A good part of the pads are down on my cheek and jaw, so the driver is very far forward and lower than my ear. Again this especially works well now that I have the TDS202 in the system which brings out a lot of detail and the iCAN 3D effect which boosts the upper frequencies. With a different setup or on an overly bright song, a different position might work better.

It is a nice feature of these headphones that they can provide a very different sound depending on how you wear them. It is kind of like having more than one pair of headphones for the price of one!

His explanation is very similar to my experience. great article.

 

[gazzington]

Is there any new headphone out there with a speaker like presentation like the ma900?

 

[gazzington]

Also anyone know of some good replacement pads for the ma900?

 

[Ufasas]

Also anyone know of some good replacement pads for the ma900?

the ones above your posts ^, from aliexpress portal

 

[Sp12er3]

The way MA900's pads age is annoying still have plush foam on mine but the ring stretched out that it often fall off maybe I should just glue part of it
Still thinkHD800s is true upgrade of MA900's Soundstage is what you love most.
These days I daily a Beyer T1 it kinda hard to go back to the MA, it just feels too muddy up top.
Still I use them when I'm not attached to my desk tho. One of the reason I don't hack out it's impedance compensator and crossfade circuitry

 

[Ufasas]

The way MA900's pads age is annoying still have plush foam on mine but the ring stretched out that it often fall off maybe I should just glue part of it
Still thinkHD800s is true upgrade of MA900's Soundstage is what you love most.
These days I daily a Beyer T1 it kinda hard to go back to the MA, it just feels too muddy up top.
Still I use them when I'm not attached to my desk tho. One of the reason I don't hack out it's impedance compensator and crossfade circuitry

haven't heard hd800s, but I've been replacing ma900 lately with akg k702 and philips xh2r, and just got sennheiser hd560s, and i think 560s is better in soundstage than ma900 or on par, seems less fatiguing than ma900 too

 

[Sp12er3]

I don't know how you stand K702, Had that alongside the MA900 For a while and really it just sound dead to me, it has good Soundstage and better detail yes, but too polite, nothing about it stand out IMO. Sold it to acquire an AD1000x and never came back.

Also not sure how you can be fatigued by the MA900, it's the most inoffensive tuning there is IMO, true that I never heard the 560 tho.

 

[kman1211]

I don't know how you stand K702, Had that alongside the MA900 For a while and really it just sound dead to me, it has good Soundstage and better detail yes, but too polite, nothing about it stand out IMO. Sold it to acquire an AD1000x and never came back.

Also not sure how you can be fatigued by the MA900, it's the most inoffensive tuning there is IMO, true that I never heard the 560 tho.

I got fatigued by the MA900 as well and is the main reason I got rid of mine and I know many other people who also got fatigued, something about their sound irritated my ears. Not sure if it's the resistor, but I found them rough and grating with long term listening.

 

[Sp12er3]

Hmm I may know what you mean, remembering some late nights when I just can't stand having a headphone on my head anymore, but since it's been so long since I had the MA as my daily, I can't say more than that.
Impressions were simply because the MA is the most forgiving over ears I have in my collection right now. Tho it's me, someone's that uses a T1 as daily so..