April 24, 200917 yr You touch my ding ding dong... Seriously: what is the G for? Goldring. That's the donor housing, a Goldring DR50. I had those cables at my house for a bit too, and Nate outdid himself, they're frickin' nice!
April 24, 200917 yr Heh you went from massive relfex strip and damped the f' out, to no damping! There is damping from some added magnetic effects?
April 24, 200917 yr I'm definitely also in favor of minimal damping. Although, this T20v2 is really giving me the finger about that. I already have 3 layers of felt in there and it's not enough.
April 24, 200917 yr Pretty much all my orthos have needed heavy damping. The exception seems to be the T50v2, which with the normal T50 damping (two discs of mineral wool) and some circumaural pads they sound quite good. I think all I need to do is experiment with circumaural pads to find the most compatible one.
June 12, 200917 yr What pads fix the t50? I used a pair of rectangular circum Pads from a 1970's Ross dynamic headphone. Btw, Im talking about the 1980 vintage T50. NOT the modern T50rp
June 21, 200917 yr I've got minimal driver damping on my Grundig 224. But then I've got heavy damping on the grilles.
June 30, 200917 yr If by interesting you mean dead sexy, I agree. At least with the amazing pics DAC took on his fancy DSLR.
July 3, 200917 yr I was watching that, too bad I am not making any audio purchases for a while. As for the head fi one, I am scared of buying orthos with permanent mods unless they were done by one of the pros . I had bought a HP3 on ebay but the seller never shipped it, hopefully getting a refund soon. Right now my ortho projects include finding a Pro-30 yoke replacement and finding a busted Bose headphone to put SFis in. Pretty much all my orthos have needed heavy damping. The exception seems to be the T50v2, which with the normal T50 damping (two discs of mineral wool) and some circumaural pads they sound quite good. I think all I need to do is experiment with circumaural pads to find the most compatible one. Where do you buy mineral wool? Haven't found anything online that seems suitable.
July 13, 200916 yr Where do you buy mineral wool? Haven't found anything online that seems suitable. Not entirely sure, Im using the actual Fostex wool biscuits from my NAD and Aiwa vintage T50 variants. I guess something like the wool stuffing used in roof insulation would be similarish...(but careful with handling, do not inhale).
July 24, 200916 yr How are you liking the grundig, interesting looks. The Grundig is pretty much amazing actually
September 28, 200916 yr Has anyone here heard anything with the Strathearn drivers? Kinda a bit before my time. I've found some interesting info in US patent 4,156,801, sorta cool read for the planar dorks among us. Anyone know if this ribbon takes the "most difficult to drive" award? 0.35 ohm nominal impedance (without the associated transformer box), I'd think that easily wins... Some of the DIY amplifiers to drive this were pretty cool in and of themselves. Yes, direct drive a flat 0.35 impedance (250 Hz - 20kHz) Anyways, seems one of the rare things that the interwebs never "rediscovered". Edited September 28, 200916 yr by luvdunhill
September 28, 200916 yr Author Ouch!! I thought the ML SummitX was bad with a dip to 0.4ohm at 18kHz...
September 28, 200916 yr Speaking of ribbons, there has been no update on the new ribbon driver headphones since march (
September 28, 200916 yr Has anyone here heard anything with the Strathearn drivers? Kinda a bit before my time. I've found some interesting info in US patent 4,156,801, sorta cool read for the planar dorks among us. Anyone know if this ribbon takes the "most difficult to drive" award? 0.35 ohm nominal impedance (without the associated transformer box), I'd think that easily wins... Some of the DIY amplifiers to drive this were pretty cool in and of themselves. Yes, direct drive a flat 0.35 impedance (250 Hz - 20kHz) Anyways, seems one of the rare things that the interwebs never "rediscovered". Looks like a speaker driver. But Strathearn were part of the Rank Organisation. In turn these were all basically the old school Fostex drivers.
March 22, 201016 yr I recently got another modded ortho in the mail from dbel84. I'm so amazed that I need to get a second opinion on this one I haven't tried out damping option B, but I'm hoping to help some help in this department, as I'm going to be real busy for the next couple weeks.. anyways, amazing stuff and perhaps someone else will post on this very headphone soon, after hearing it on a certain beta22
March 22, 201016 yr Glad it made it safely Once I am settled in new state/home etc, if there is interest, I will put together a "travel box" so that people can sample a few of the ortho flavours out there. ..dB edit .... looking forward to someone else's opinion on a certain B22 and now the comment of "some help which requires a screwdriver" makes total sense
March 22, 201016 yr I recently got another modded ortho in the mail from dbel84. I'm so amazed that I need to get a second opinion on this one I haven't tried out damping option B, but I'm hoping to help some help in this department, as I'm going to be real busy for the next couple weeks.. anyways, amazing stuff and perhaps someone else will post on this very headphone soon, after hearing it on a certain beta22 What amazing modded ortho is that? (A secret? Like to share the secret in here?)
March 22, 201016 yr Ah, so there's the easy, kitchen table project you were alluding to. Can't wait to hear whatever they may be! Are they 4 pin XLR terminated? I hope so. I'll try them on the Krell too.
March 22, 201016 yr What amazing modded ortho is that? (A secret? Like to share the secret in here?) Nothing secretive, just a pair of T10's ..dB
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