johnjen
Headphoneus Supremus
Please redirect me if these questions have been summarized in threads I haven't come across yet:
I'd be helped by a run-down of the mods you have done that have done the trick?
I have not written up all of the mods I've made to my 800's, mostly because writing them up would be a laborious task and probably not 'precise' enough.
I have performed these tweaks on one other pair of 800S's, but that is the extent of their propagation.
And again I'm mid-stream on where I'll eventually wind up.
Could I get similar results with digital EQ?
I use EQ as well to help 'balance' out the results of the hardware mods and to bring up the bottom end along, with several other tweaks.
I have listed my EQ in the Cookbook thread (see below).
But I did start out with the easier to implement EQ from Sonarworks, which is very nice.
By itself EQ will help a bunch, but it doesn't deal with what my mods are doing, which I pointed at in my last post of the 'Better' series. http://www.head-fi.org/t/781268/the-diyrs-cookbook/585#post_12677244
I see comments about SQ differences between older serial number 800's vs newer ones. Are these subjective comparisons or have the 800's gone through several versions under the same name since introduction? Thanks McC
I too have seen these comments but I figure there is a greater variation between units than a generational 'design' change.
There are many people who post their response curves from Sennheiser and they all are just a bit different, which leads me to this conclusion.
Also in my 'Cookbook' thread I have touched upon these mods and many related topics all of which are derivatives of the results of all of my fussings.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/781268/the-diyrs-cookbook
I bring this up because it is the entire system and not just the 800's that 'allows' me to tweak them to this level of performance.
I think of it as, as the system gets out of its own way, I can more easily tell if changes are 'Better' to and with finer and finer degrees of SQ.
IOW as more precise 'tools' are brought to bare, one can dial in the degree of precision of the entire system, all the more.
Also when tweaking to this extent, the ability to adjust the amounts of change introduced by these tweaks, well those that can be adjusted (EQ, vibration management, ac power delivery, etc.), will often need to be (re)adjusted multiple times as other CP's (Choke Points) are removed from the system.
IOW this is an ongoing process of dialing in the entire system and not just one aspect in isolation (like the 800's).
And lastly if you lived in the seattle area I could mod your 800's for you, and show you how to adjust them to suit your requirements rather than mine.
This is where the 'final' adjustments come into play, with your system driving your 800's and taking into account what you desire out of your system.
JJ