E_Schaaf

Wondering how using a transport other than Eitr might change things...

Probably a noticeable improvement.

interested to see what you come up with - I´m using my HD580 with custom more open grills + mass loaded

TP, woven cotton from a t-shirt (never finalized a mod with this one before!), melamine, rug liner,and some secret-formula acoustic paper. Asymmetrical cuts. FR looks wonky on the graph but sounds like I wanted - smooth, expansive, and somehow both zippy and thicc. Like how I wanted all of my past Audezes to sound (though they never did).

Would be curious to get squiggles of it just as a reference point. IME some jaggedness in plain FR isn't necessarily audible since a Paradox I heard some time ago was just as "level" sounding, if not as "smooth", as an HD650.

I gave up putting around with HP-3 mesh when one of the screws on the outer ring immediately died (same happened with @Eudis Fernandes iirc). So much for being mod friendly.

The Mormons beat you to it by a couple of centuries, and the harams of the middle east by more than that.

difference is that nobody intends to marry or reproduce, and all of my partners also have other partners as well.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201807/what-is-the-difference-between-polyamory-and-polygamy

J-Dilla made music with production values many artists in Pop and Rap can only dream of. Only Kanye matched him on 808. Now I feel the urge to play Burial...

What always struck me about Dilla is how he made a simple kick, snare, and sample or two feel like such a personal and distinctive statement - he was one of the first to have a clear voice on the 404. Not everything felt locked to a grid - he embraced the inherent looseness of sampling existing content.

Never heard an open DD with deep bass this solid and articulate. Measurements coming soon! Might send to a few buddies after I find a 4-pin cable.

STOP THE PRESSSSSSSS!!!!!

People are always quick to flame the dealership model for driving prices up but you guys do a huge bulk of the work for uninformed customers. Better luck next time.

Ungrateful bitches.

Congrats! Very cool.

holy crap, that's amazing. Congrats dude!

Thanks everyone! I'll be helping with assembly as well as R&D / tuning. Definitely a startup vibe, small team, lots of room to experiment. Should be fun!

Believe me @skem if I could afford it I'd have literal stacks of subs floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall. I am not ashamed of being a basshead when it comes to loudspeakers. Headphones are a different story since they'll never rattle my ribcage regardless of relative bass quantity.

Not to mention I've already got 5 noise complaints (as low as 85dB mid-day in my listening position) in less than a year and I'm sure my upstairs neighbors wouldn't love even one subwoofer in my space.

"With 5000 subwoofers, modal variation is virtually
eliminated ... " is the best thing I've encountered today. Nice analysis though.

I'd suggest trying the Feliks Euphoria and Eleven Audio Formula S

DNA Stellaris.

McIntosh MHA150.

Maybe you can talk this guy down to $600 for a pair of Infinity RSII https://ebay.us/mmBFI4

@Panohm TBH I stopped working on it after people started offering to pay for mods on other headphones like HE6 and 4XX and 400. Just got too busy to get back to it. Now it's completely disassembled, laying all over my apartment.

As E_Schaaf mentioned, he modded my 4 screw HE6. With a few samples of music and my thoughts, he was able to produce something truly amazing after much testing and trial and error. When i have the time to write up a thorough impression it deserves, I plan to call the title "The king is dead, long live the king" because it has dethroned my favorite open headphone the LFF Code-X.

E_Schaaf is very thorough and dedicated. I cannot praise his work enough. Also was a reasonable price.

PSA (no pun intended)

Don’t talk to me about PSA. Not the audio company. I get “stabbed” every three months to check it. Hey dudes, if you 50+ get it checked.

@E_Schaaf thanks for the heads up on the liquidation.

Yet another advantage of multiple partners

Not all post-rock / post-metal bands can match the raw power of Nadja I suppose... Love it when a buildup devolves into a dense spectrum of noise

It may not sound as good as my CDs, but I love using my Nak. Probably just fueled by nostalgia but who cares, I enjoy it. I'd love to see an easily obtainable 3 head deck.

The Naks are surprisingly good at digging info off the tape. Most obviously when you record your own tapes - can sound almost identical to the source... or maybe even a little 'better' if you drive them hard enough. My favorite tapes are the ones that are most compressed and saturated. Nothing like that growl, especially for beats and EDM. Makes my hairs stand up.

What about an old Nak CR-3A with a separate tube output buffer box? I wouldn't think that would be all that expensive.