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Les_Garten

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  1. That sale annoys me, as my pair arrived with dents, so as much as I understand Todd gets a lot of respect, I have to wonder how my pair got out the door in the first place. Maybe they weren't dented enough to be called B-stock? :chair:

    Mine had a pretty good nick in them, but they sounded great. I talked to Todd about it and he said JG would fix them. I was worried I would get another set that may sound different so I just blew it off, especially since there are few perfect Grados in the wild, I just figured it wouldn't be a big deal, all in all. . I'll bet that if you had returned yours that they would be in this lot as well.

    I don't think they inspected them before they went out the door. Todd handling 500 pairs, no way he looked at them. QC should have been done at the factory anyway, and we know that doesn't really happen. I had to send my GS1000s to them 4 times to get them fixed. JG is a pleasant enough guy to talk to, but their QC blows.

  2. Yeah, and the cheap price is going to completely wreck any chances of people selling their HF-2's at anything close to what they paid for them.

    It's only 26 sets, don't think it will devastate the Grado Pre-Owned SE market

  3. I'd recommend heatshrink but it was hard for me to use since I had two wires on each pin, the wire from the tubes and then a loop out to the Fischer socket. Solid core wires would also be a good choice here...

    The 6-pin variant is even more fun :)

    I removed all of the outer pins, did the centre pin first, and made sure for the outside pins that all the wires were actually towards the outside. I used 22AWG Belden wire and a decent length of heatshrink, and it ended up a nice clean job, and very secure.

    Through my powers of inductive reasoning here, it looks like it is best to solder the Jack first, then install in the chassis.

    Solid core does sound attractive here.

  4. The Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy is really great. As is the biggie, Grand Illusion. Suspect many here would like Le Trou and, of course, Alphaville. Shame they are going OOP. Sure most will reappear, but I have my doubts about the Flamenco Trilogy.

    Heh, Kewl Avatar!

  5. They dont replace the cups though, so you wouldnt get the same effect. No idea what a custom metal cup would run, might not be too bad in the quantities they would be looking at. At that point though, why bother with using any grado stuff? If you can make a SR325 sound like a completely different and better headphone, what possible reason would you want to keep the grado design?

    Yeah, the cups, forgot about those...

  6. You're supposed to get the drivers back but there's no mention of you getting any of the housing back (except for the parts that are re-used). Now, if the original drivers are being returned and housings are completely replaced, I don't understand why you'd need to send in the entire headphone at all - couldn't one just send in the headband parts (posts & R/L blocks) and cables?

    I've had that very conversation. I have my 325s in pieces and I just wanted to send in the pieces needed. Instead of assembling for the dis-assembly??

  7. I have some gear that I've had a long time and have not fired them up in a long time.

    2 Adcom GFA-555s

    1 Pair Martin Logan Monoliths

    They are all around 20+ years old. The amps have spent some time in the garage in South FL.

    Should I just recap the cross-overs in the spkrs and the amps? I'm afraid to power them up. The woofers need the surrounds rebuilt anyhow.

    Just worried that firing them up would take out the boards if the caps were bad.

    I think I know the answer but thought I would ask anyhow.

  8. Bahaha... my god I can't believe my early morning stupidity =P

    I had this funny image of turning a 16 inch long by 3 inch wide rod to make a knob with full size shaft.

    For some strange reason I had the same image in my head. I think the reason why we thought this is because of the rest of the design of the amp! I mean once you start offering Platinum knobs, I'd believe a Kryptonite option for sure!

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