[Miiksu]

did someone make a photo to show the idea? I'm thinking about to 'solve' the 700hz resonance... but yeah.. I want to keep my delicious Takstar alive... don't want to break it. I did it a few years ago with my hifiman....

Search my photos in this thread

 

[Restatic]

Search my photos in this thread

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/takstar-hf-580-planar-headphones.904483/page-72#post-15941881 this is it ?

 

[Mullle Meck]

did someone make a photo to show the idea? I'm thinking about to 'solve' the 700hz resonance... but yeah.. I want to keep my delicious Takstar alive... don't want to break it. I did it a few years ago with my hifiman....

Dude, I feel your pain, had a mild heart attack a few days ago. Thought it would be a good idea to clean the drivers of my sennheiser hd590's. Little did I realize the super thin wires from the coil where exposed when you take them apart and It wasn't fun when only one channel worked afterwards.
Luckly, a lot of solder fixed that issue (so far atleast).

 

[adamus]

just recieved mine and had a play.

Firstly, they sound better through my valve amp (parafeed, siemens c3g valve) than my solid state.

Stock pads = odd mid range. Ever so slightly nasal, probably a slight rasp around 4khz

sendy avia pads = glorious. Soundstage increases, imaging increases, top treble sparkles more, and the mid honkeyness is all but gone,

Lovely sound signature.

 

[yawg]

just recieved mine and had a play.

Firstly, they sound better through my valve amp (parafeed, siemens c3g valve) than my solid state.

Stock pads = odd mid range. Ever so slightly nasal, probably a slight rasp around 4khz

sendy avia pads = glorious. Soundstage increases, imaging increases, top treble sparkles more, and the mid honkeyness is all but gone,

Lovely sound signature.

Are your tubes Siemens/Halske? Those are the ones to look for in my experience. If they are only Siemens they are probably from the former DDR/East Germany. YMMV.

I have a pair of old Siemens/Halske CCa in my Cayin DAC. Best sounding DAC that I experienced until now.

I bought a pair of Aiva pads, too but left the original pads for now as I'm quite happy. The Takstar needs a little time to get to its best performance IMO.

Cheers, Jörg.

 

[Miiksu]

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/takstar-hf-580-planar-headphones.904483/page-72#post-15941881 this is it ?

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/takstar-hf-580-planar-headphones.904483/page-26#post-14986729

Sorry my computer died. I did not have PC to work with it. And this forum mobile version sucks. Hope it helps

 

[adamus]

Are your tubes Siemens/Halske? Those are the ones to look for in my experience. If they are only Siemens they are probably from the former DDR/East Germany. YMMV.

I have a pair of old Siemens/Halske CCa in my Cayin DAC. Best sounding DAC that I experienced until now.

I bought a pair of Aiva pads, too but left the original pads for now as I'm quite happy. The Takstar needs a little time to get to its best performance IMO.

Cheers, Jörg.

sadly not, just siemens. found a new tube i love... 6e6p dr. as good as the c3g to my unlearned ear. and £3

 

[Brenda Bodegraven]

Please allow me to ask a question? I want to buy a new headphone. I am focussing on two headphones that are both the same price in my country. Namely;

1. Takstar HF580
2. Beyerdynamic DT880

The DT880 is not really compared in above discussion to the HF580 Takstar. I want to use the headphone for listening music files from my PC (Flac, cd's and mp3). I use Foobar with addons. It would be nice to also be able to use the headphone as home studio monitors as I like to play e-guitar, synthesizer, vocal). My plan is to use the phones on a topping A50 headphone amp which I want to connect to the line-out of a Steinberg UR24C audio interface which has an internal dac. For studio monitoring I can plug the phones straight into the audio-interface. For hifi I can use the headphone amp.

Which headphone would you prefer for this purpose and why? Thank you for your efforts and time!

p.s. An audio interface is connected to the PC through USB3.0 (fyi...)

 

[Miiksu]

@Brenda Bodegraven

DT880 has weaker bass more high treble. I would go for HF580. It can be modderd easily to better sounding or just EQ. HF580 cable is bad and earpads. Pads can be changed easily to very good ones just using some clear tape. Unmodified HF580 has a bit shouting midrange.

 

[adamus]

hf580 if you are prepared to buy the avia earpads. turns a a weird sounding headphone into an excellent one.

 

[yawg]

hf580 if you are prepared to buy the avia earpads. turns a a weird sounding headphone into an excellent one.

I already got the Aiva pads. So maybe I should exchange them. But I find the sound sig. of the Takstar with the standard pads good enough for me. No shouting detected yet. So I will wait until the original pads have worn out. Maybe it's just the fact that everyone of us has a different set of ears.

Enjoy whatever you've got, Jörg.

 

[Miiksu]

No. God. Just use sheepskins HI3050 is HF580 before they named it like that. You think that dip around 9kHz may ruin the sound you are wrong. It just better overal sounding.

 

[Brenda Bodegraven]

DT880 has weaker bass more high treble. I would go for HF580. It can be modderd easily to better sounding or just EQ. HF580 cable is bad and earpads. Pads can be changed easily to very good ones just using some clear tape. Unmodified HF580 has a bit shouting midrange.

Thank you for the replies. Is my assumption correct that the Beyerdynamic DT880 and the Takstar HF880 are headphones on the same level and that it's a matter of personal preference which one will sound better? Or would you say the HF580 is way better than DT880? Does the HF580 cable have quality issues apart from it's length?

 

[Mullle Meck]

Thank you for the replies. Is my assumption correct that the Beyerdynamic DT880 and the Takstar HF880 are headphones on the same level and that it's a matter of personal preference which one will sound better? Or would you say the HF580 is way better than DT880? Does the HF580 cable have quality issues apart from it's length?

The sound of these two is differently tilted, so a direct comparison is hard.
As for the cable; it's fine. i have no issues with the cable, it's thick and rubber but sturdy. You can easily run it over with a chair

 

[adamus]

reading back through this thread... how on earth are people describing this headphone as bright? it makes my hd650 sound bright.

I love the dark, warm presentation. I can wear them all day, they never get tiring.