parisifal
New Head-Fier
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Well here is another path of self destructions I am about to set myself upon.
I started all of this madness with cars, I am young, yet I have owned, modify and sometimes destroy more cars than I can count with my fingers. Than I went on to some small electronic items, mostly to put them in smaller and smaller casing. Than I found the joys of computers in the early 90's of which I consider myself part of the modding few which have built and seen pretty much everything. Than about 3 years ago I hit the audio stuff. Built were benches, tables, speakerstands and a plethora of things. I dwelt into headphones and enjoyed a few pairs....but I never MODDED them.
Well 3 years later and with as much resistance as I could have possibly put up, I've gone and modified my first set of headphones.
It is nothing spectacular:
Heaphones: Panasonic RP-HT227 ($12.95)
Yes I know some of you might think why bother, but I am not about to rip up some expensive headphones.
The initial experience: Well they suck, simple as that. Way too much treble and static coming out of them. I have a pair of Sony MDR-W80 that I got for $4 and those sounds alot better. Heck even my ghetto pair of noise cancelling KOSS sounds better. So I pulled it apart.
Inside, I found a set of small neodymium magnets and the smallest wires I have seen this side of a hair. So my first mod begun with this set of headphones.
What exactly did I do?
Changed the cable, that's it. Nothing major. All I did was pull them apart and rewired them with a set of JVC cables I bought ($3) which had one mini and 2 RCA connects. I sliced up the RCA ends and feed them through the cups than resoldered the drivers onto the wires. They look completely stock except until you place them next to the stock headphones, the new plug and wires are huge compared to the old one with much better shielding.
The result: Nothing spectacular. They sound as good or better than the stock iPod earbuds and as good as the PX-200 I have. I know, nothing to be wowed over, but for a total of $15.95 I have a set of headphones that can rival a set of $50 headphones. So I am proud of myself for making a crappy set of headphones into semi decent ones.
Now lets get cracking on these Sennheiser HD-600
I started all of this madness with cars, I am young, yet I have owned, modify and sometimes destroy more cars than I can count with my fingers. Than I went on to some small electronic items, mostly to put them in smaller and smaller casing. Than I found the joys of computers in the early 90's of which I consider myself part of the modding few which have built and seen pretty much everything. Than about 3 years ago I hit the audio stuff. Built were benches, tables, speakerstands and a plethora of things. I dwelt into headphones and enjoyed a few pairs....but I never MODDED them.
Well 3 years later and with as much resistance as I could have possibly put up, I've gone and modified my first set of headphones.
It is nothing spectacular:
Heaphones: Panasonic RP-HT227 ($12.95)
Yes I know some of you might think why bother, but I am not about to rip up some expensive headphones.
The initial experience: Well they suck, simple as that. Way too much treble and static coming out of them. I have a pair of Sony MDR-W80 that I got for $4 and those sounds alot better. Heck even my ghetto pair of noise cancelling KOSS sounds better. So I pulled it apart.
Inside, I found a set of small neodymium magnets and the smallest wires I have seen this side of a hair. So my first mod begun with this set of headphones.
What exactly did I do?
Changed the cable, that's it. Nothing major. All I did was pull them apart and rewired them with a set of JVC cables I bought ($3) which had one mini and 2 RCA connects. I sliced up the RCA ends and feed them through the cups than resoldered the drivers onto the wires. They look completely stock except until you place them next to the stock headphones, the new plug and wires are huge compared to the old one with much better shielding.
The result: Nothing spectacular. They sound as good or better than the stock iPod earbuds and as good as the PX-200 I have. I know, nothing to be wowed over, but for a total of $15.95 I have a set of headphones that can rival a set of $50 headphones. So I am proud of myself for making a crappy set of headphones into semi decent ones.
Now lets get cracking on these Sennheiser HD-600
