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Or bow(e)ls?

I wonder if you'd like this one. I just realized why it's been sometimes making me nauseous: it's actually got a slight bass hump from 70-50Hz! Then it's flat down to 40Hz where it rolls off to pretty much 0 at 30Hz. Insane, a low bass hump. I think I've already done a good job of taming the resonances and the last step is to apply some damping to the back plate. I took off the back plates just to see the difference. Both the bass and treble became rolled off, there was little impact, and the imaging was gone. But it was more open sounding, obviously. Above are my comments on the low end, so I'm pretty sure now I have a bass heavy pair. It's pretty flat except for the low bass hump, which was unexpected... looks like the passive radiators are doing their job, perhaps a bit too well. There's something a bit off about the bass that I think can be solved either by damping the resonances or possibly balanced operation. There's no doubt about the power, I barely have my receiver on 2-3 out of 10 on the volume knob with no signs of clipping or lack of power, whereas my 'stats and orthos usually reach 3-4 out of 10. Duly noted. And thanks very much for the offer! I might take you up on that sometime. Of course not without eventually having you hear the final result for yourself.

I'm gonna get so much shit from the Stax mafia from this, but I think the mids are superior to Stax at times. Just glorious when it hits the spot. AKG just plain know what they're doing with vocals IMO, I'm sure in part due to their expertise in mics. Hi hats/cymbals are also kind of mind-blowing. I think Dynamat or bitumen on the backs and then damping some of the passive diaphragms is really going to make this thing sing. Also, I take back what I said about it being bass-light: it's bass normal to heavy. Curse you, AKG! I actually took the whole grille off at some point and used some speaker cloth in place, but it was too fiddly because the driver baffle wasn't really secured to anything other than the tape I used. I suppose I could've devised a better way but liked the protection to the drivers the grille offered. I may eventually try drilling a few holes as a final tweak.

>_> Anyway, I resurrected this thread to blab on about my K340 some more, since I never actually got it working properly until now, in the 2 or so years that I've had it. Bullet points shall follow this colon: Speed for the most part is pretty good, somehow pretty much on par with electrostats Frequency balance and extension is pretty good as well Imaging is bizarrely almost 3D even though it's semi-closed and there is no stereo bleeding of the two channels. I've always wondered how the K340 imaged so well, in the brief moments that both channels worked. Slightly papery resonant tonality a lot of the time Strings don't sound that good, I'm pretty sure it's another function of the semi-closedness. First mod I will try after this is more mechanical damping on the backs of the plastic badge back things. I'll also probably play with acoustic damping the passive diaphragms Bass sounds like a weird combination of electrostatic and dynamic, but not necessarily the best of both. The impact is.. kind of on an electrostatic level, but dynamic-ier. It's got some dynamic rumble and is a bit slow because of it but is not quite as tuneful as electrostatic bass. Must be the passive diaphragm trickeries. Mods: Dual entry high performance audiophile milspec vintage NOS cable (3 ohms) Bypassing the transformer PCB for the dynamic driver Layer of felt in the back Ring of bluetak in the back Piece of tape behind the dynamic drivers (possible reflex dot, it's been there since pretty much the beginning but I don't remember what effect, if any, it had) All in all a bit of a bizarre headphone that gets a lot of things right, as long as I don't listen to anything with bowed string instruments. I will try further tweaks somewhere down the line which should help but have more pressing matters to attend to.

Cool, that sounds like a great album to try out. Speaking of seminal, I think you're familiar with my favorite band. Though I guess it's a bit cliche, it's definitely influenced me in deciding what to listen to of more recent stuff. And I will check out the others as well. Is what I like referred to as technical metal? Seems like there's about a million subgenres of metal, and even then, a lot of the bands don't really fit into any one.

I've been starting my foray into darker stuff, mainly metal, with Gojira and Meshuggah. Anything along those lines you guys recommend? I like the math aspect of Meshuggah and the groove aspect of Gojira, and enjoy it the most when there are minimal vocals because I don't really like the growling and grunting and whatnot. My mind was pretty much blown away by Terra Incognita, especially Satan Is A Lawyer, which is kind of like a mix between Modest Mouse and Nirvana and... metal. Or something, not sure how to describe it. I like Love a lot, too.

I'd love to try kangaroo someday, along with squirrel meat and whatever else I haven't tried. --- Just finished the second day of shoveling the hell out of some goddamn snow. My back is... not feeling the best, at the moment.

FTFY Must be something about the couple hundred volts of bias near the head.

Er, I guess I forgot to mention that part. Yes, yes I am. Thanks for the help, guys. I'm glad it wasn't the voice coil being displaced or I'd be screwed.

Couple of notes: 1) I'm pretty sure I have the bass light variety. 2) These are a lot more efficient than my orthos. 3) They don't suck as bad as I thought a semi-closed dynamic would. In fact they may actually sound good after a bit more modding. Might be the electrets? 3) Everything sounds better on vinyl. 4) I need to fix my Concept CE-H now but don't have any more crap headphone cables to solder on. Time to buy cheap vintage headphones for the cables. 5) I need to finish the JFET amp and make sure not to blow anything else up. 6) But it's time to make a recording first.

I wired it up with some crap headphone cable that measured 3.1 ohms on one side and 3.3 on the other but at least now it's bi-entry which means it may sound better.

I.. don't even know how I'd go about moving the voice coil around without destroying everything so I hope that's not it. Yeah I'm still using the stock cable. I've tried it on a couple of receivers and the headphone out of my 0404 USB, all with nothing out of the right channel, even when I try to jam the plug in there all the way or roll it around. I used to get intermittent sound, at least.

Uh yeah, so I'm failing pretty hard at figuring out why the right channel doesn't make sound. I checked the DCR from each tab of the dynamic driver (which is hooked up to the electret, yes I did mod them so it's not run through the electret into the dynamic driver anymore) and it measures correctly, around 330 ohms. Measured from driver tab to tip/ring and it measures the same. The hell am I doing wrong here? I resoldered the tabs just to make sure, still to no avail, and it's always the right channel, and not the left.

Everyone's switching to Mac these days... and yeah, a lot of the time the best way to have a Windows machine run fast is to reinstall the OS.

AGP is pretty old school, yeah. Why not just put the money toward building a new computer?

The problem is it's still snowing, last I checked, so there's more to be shoveled anyway. When we "finished" there was already a thin layer of half of an inch to an inch on where we started.

He has one, too. Not only that, all of our snow shovels are > 10 years old, rusted, barely able to maintain shape (most of the time unable, actually). Whatever, shoveling the shit out of snow has a certain stress-relieving effect. It also has a certain back-pain inducing effect. And back I go.

Just now taking a momentary break from shoveling a shitload of snow off our giantass driveaway because my dad can't be bothered to figure out how to use the monstrous expensive snowblower we bought many years ago that has had absolutely no use since having been purchased. And apparently will continue to have no use. Good way to spend the holidays after the worst semester I've ever had. Edit: And the arsebiscuit actually had the nerve to complain to me that I was chucking the snow onto the bushes when it's going to get covered anyway because IT'S STILL SNOWING.

Was it a Steinway?

Art Tatum ftw. And while I am usually picky about female voices (any genre), Ella is able to melt my heart to the core more than any other I have so far heard. There is a reason she is royalty.

It definitely would if Fleshlights could.. uh... 'gasm.

True, it's not particularly hard to find bad sounding headphones.

Welcome/Bienvenidos! You'll soon find that we don't like either of those headphones but we'll still be able to get along just fine (hopefully).

It just showed up as some hotlink generic pic but I found the original and... FFFUUUUUUU. Nothing at all wrong with going from showing affection toward your owner to eating his dead face. I'm not even being sarcastic here, though I will be creeped out the next time a dog licks me if I still remember that article.

A pricey investment, but I think it'll pay for itself at least a couple times over the course of its lifetime. Prospects look good and the numbers all add up, so I would've done the same.