Comments on Profile Post by wbass

  1. Soups
    Soups
    Ouch, sorry man! Hopefully the repair will be reasonable...
    Sep 10, 2024
  2. wbass
    wbass
    UK Audeze rep has advised: "Get a 9v battery and briefly touch the two terminals against your cable jack. For the left driver, you can touch one terminal against the larger sleeve/ground contact on the jack and the other terminal against the tip, just briefly. If you're lucky, you'll hear the driver crackle and come back to life."
    Sep 11, 2024
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  3. wbass
    wbass
    "There is no telling how long the 'fix' will last, but it's very quick to 'fix' once again." Anyone ever heard of this? I guess it can't hurt if the driver is down or sticking, but I'm wary of causing further damage.
    Sep 11, 2024
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  4. wbass
    wbass
    Hmm, this appears to have worked! As the rep suggested, it made a god-almighty crackle in the left driver, but it does seem to have unstuck, and sounds like it's back in action. No clue whether this would've degraded the driver. Hopefully, the LCD-4 drivers can take a bit of abuse.
    Sep 12, 2024
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  5. wbass
    wbass
    Back to running them with the Phonitor SE, a surprisingly good match, and the internal DAC in my iFi Neo Stream, which I don't care for, as I feel it sounds insipid. But I might try upsampling through HQP and see if that helps anything.
    Sep 12, 2024
  6. Ti_Leo
    Ti_Leo
    Either the rep is really good at it, or Audeze knows about this for a long time, of course I take the latter. So glad to see they are back alive!!
    Sep 12, 2024