[smodtactical]

Wife has gone to bed. Time to bring out the 1266.

You look like galactus.

 

[Trance_Gott]

Ah, super rare to see a fellow Rhapsody fan! Is Luca back in the band?

BTW, your issue sounds like a charge problem. Have you tried using other amps, etc? Switch the cables around also from L to R.

Yes not a cable or amp issue.

Luca leave the band 2011.

 

[qboogie]

We did it. Woohoo.

*Plays FLAC binaural audio of champagne bottles popping*

*Swears it sounds better than 320 kbps MP3 version of the same track*

 

[Ciggavelli]

I have to post on the 1266th page for historic reasons. It’s still my favorite pair of headphones ever

 

[tholt]

Merry 1266!

 

[stemiki]

i 1266

 

[Trance_Gott]

Since 2013 I had all iterations of the Abyss. The headphone with the greatest visceral impact on the market.
I love them!

 

[MWeston]

My 1266 TC also has the sleepy driver problem. Sometimes it's the right side, but the left side was also quieter or didn't work at all. Then you turn the amplifier up briefly and everything runs perfectly. For me it's always when I don't use the headphones for a few days. I had already written to JPS and they said that if both drivers play, I should let them play. The warranty has already expired. Has anyone here with the sleepy driver problem also had a total failure with a driver or do the drivers always start up again? I could live with it if the drivers continued to work like this for many years. Many people here seem to have this problem. Does anyone know what the cause of this is? It must be a production error. @Abyss Headphones

I have a friend who just went through this "sleepy driver" issue on a 1266. I believe this is what ALL of you are going through (unless you pierced the driver with something!) and it is strange but easily fixed. His warranty was expired so he was okay with opening it up.

It turns out that crud builds up under the connection of the wire right at the driver diaphragm. I have never opened mine (too new and work just fine) but there is some kind of clip or mating metal (likely due to limited heating allowable on the planar membrane material) that brings the red and white wires to the tracing. He gave it a wiggle and lots of crud fell out from under it and then it was all good. Weeks later, the other driver did it and the same "wiggle the crud out" procedure fixed that one too. Maybe it is a flux material or membrane coating out-gassing something that migrates onto the metal contacts but only Abyss knows that one.

This was after we diagnosed that the pins still had a 49ish ohm impedance and the wires were still making connections. It seems that the problem is when current is driven, the connections fail and if you get it to work, it's because you put some vibration into the area that displaced just enough crud to create a minimal connection. I hope I never need to do this, but if I do, I am somewhat confident that I will be able to fix it. I treat them like gold so I can't imagine anything else causing a failure.

 

[Trance_Gott]

@MWeston
Sounds logical and maybe that's the reason why it begin after a longer time. Mine is about 3 years old.
Have your collegue images and a small description how to exactly opened it?
I think I read somewhere else that you must be very careful to open because the driver stands in pressure and can falling apart.
@Abyss Headphones Or can someone from JPS explain how to fix without sending it to the USA. Sounds like it's an little fix to do it yourself.

 

[normie610]

I hope there’s still room for one more post on page 1266! Just got to listen to them today after a long holiday trip (plus mandatory quarantine), and they sound sublime. I initially used the stock cable but then switched to Norne Vykari and the sound became more even with better mids. I must say in my setup, the sound is a bit similar to Susvara.

 

[Womaz]

I hope still room for one more post on page 1266! Just got to listen to them today after a long holiday trip (plus mandatory quarantine), and they sound sublime. I initially used the stock cable but then switched to Norne Vykari and the sound became more even with better mids. I must say in my setup, the sound is a bit similar to Susvara.

Ah so you have eventually received them. I am sure the wait was worthwhile

 

[simorag]

Here's my hommage to the mighty AB-1266 on its eponymous thread page, through a tour de force playlist of American composers' masterpieces.

Live recordings, big atmospheric sound, huge dynamics swings, a lot of fun

Only recommendation: play them loud!

 

[normie610]

Ah so you have eventually received them. I am sure the wait was worthwhile

Yes finally! Well it performs at the same level as SR1a and Susvara, just a bit of different flavor in tonality, but not by much. And this also applies to the bass, more similar than different (please note that I use EQ for both Susvara and SR1a).

 

[13cashewnuts]

Absolutely love this thread and the almighty 1266 TC!

 

[Slim1970]

I hope there’s still room for one more post on page 1266! Just got to listen to them today after a long holiday trip (plus mandatory quarantine), and they sound sublime. I initially used the stock cable but then switched to Norne Vykari and the sound became more even with better mids. I must say in my setup, the sound is a bit similar to Susvara.

Seems there is room for one more