Grado Screw Mod

Discussion in 'Modifications and Tweaks' started by rhythmdevils, Jan 22, 2021.

  1. spoony

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    Best mod on the site IMO.
     
  2. mk801

    mk801 Almost "Made"

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    Ah, I see that you are using the 4-screw version. Have you tried the 6-screw version? I heard that the latter is darker with a little bit more of a roll-off.
     
  3. imackler

    imackler Key Lime Pie Infected Aberdeen Wings Spy

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    The point is to prevent roll-off.
     
  4. Armaegis

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    Sorry bud, this is the best I could do... (apologies to Tyll for dredging up this memory from his past :eek:)

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    But if you want to find the Grado one, do a google search for suicidegirls plus grado or headphone or whatever and there are at least two albums to find out there.
     
  5. Philimon

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    Legend I was reading about just yesterday before seeing rhythmdevils’ thread (great roast btw).: Grado’s first headphone (HP1) drivers were sourced from a Japanese company called Primo. The same drivers were used in common Nakamichi SP-7 headphones. Yes, some have tried their hands at modding those Nak drivers to HP1 levels. Here’s a pic with HD414 foams.:

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    Edit: trim
     
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  6. Grattle

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    You know, that cable might be worth keeping. I hear they make great replacement cords for vacuum cleaners and other high amp household tools.
     
  7. mroneto

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    Would there be a significant difference between using the SR60/80/125/325/420's with this mod?
     
  8. robot zombie

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    Okay, so basically what you're saying is...

    It's pretty much like you're stuck inside the tree of Yggdrasil and there is an astral eldritch entity collective known as the hiss resonance permeating it that makes you go insane and mutate. It's a quasi-sentient resonance of such a violently pervasive nature that it seeks to convert every dimension in existence into what is essentially an endless echo chamber consisting only of it, this transcendent body of ethereal vibrations is seeking an infinite amplification factor.

    Mostly you're gonna wanna levitate with your grenade launcher at the ready. Or use psychokinesis to hurl things.

    But that's really chickenshit when you consider that you are in a space both adjacent to and plugged into an infinite stack of discreet universes with in a multiverse in a boundless, formless soup of multiverses. You're in the CNS permeating the broth in the soup and making the ingredients sing. The walls keep morphing and shit. Things from separate universes come and go as though they have simultaneously always been there and never existed. Everything that is possible from a binary standpoint has happened, will happen, is happening, and has never happened all at once.

    Standard-issue non-euclidean pathways all about. An imposingly grand sprawl brutalist pockets and protrusions. Ordinary objects sometimes have personalities and little 'behaviroal quirks' that you have to watch out for - medusa fridges that devour you the moment you look away, giant barge anchors that vomit mini-grandfather clocks, US nuke code floppy disks that shoot mail tubes at you, a loose carousel unicorn that leroy-jenkinses the crap outta you tron style, a hungry and belching incinerator that asks to be fed live humans, a rather delicious fungus that exhumes your entire body into a droning fungoid-hominid hivemind that's trying to consume all of space and all of the things in it... that kind of stuff. It's all based on acausally-linked Jungian archetypes. To each idea a reality. And to each reality an idea. It's both but a story in your head and an actual moment in space and time that you can't directly access.

    There's probably even a mirror somewhere that you can step into which has an evil doppelganger that wants to kill you all spookylike and predator-style. Never mind how some objects teleport you to this astral no-man's-land of pure and vast white, dotted with jutting and shear cuboid islands resembling onyx icebergs suspended at dizzying altitudes - seemingly strung up by invisible twine, like a postmodern surrealist's take on the ship in a bottle.

    In this space, you often meet a giant inverted pyramid linking to a collective of astral bureaucrats (they are essentially the formless CEOs of some universe or universes within the multiverse.) The pyramid gives you commands in a very particular and nuanced gibberish that you somehow understand implicitly even though it sounds like reversed and pitch-bent klingon routed through an indie guitarist's pedalboard. You first meet them through this strange animated gun you ffind next to this director guy who's lying dead from a very bloody head wound. You pick it up and make contact with the pyramid. A couple of times, everything can be charcoal black and there will instead this giant eye monster who tries to smash you and blast you with asteroid-sized stress balls from its bigass cyclops eye. His gibberish is the same, but the inflection is different and your mind can't comprehend it as anything but the wavering whine of violins in a very long sewage pipe.

    At some point you get a pair of headphones that ONLY plays a song by a band of old Finnish gods who make bitchin rock n' roll that opens up a meandering and treacherous path through a shifting, Escheresque labyrinth of rather opulently-appointed hotel hallways and lobbies. At least it drowns out the clamoring and disharmonious choirs of demon voices that you often hear emanating from the very air molecules surrounding you,chanting mad incantations that are perpetually burrowing the most dissonant and uncanny word-salad into your ears, like a temptingly-tempestuous dentist's drill beckoning the vibrations of your very being to the precipice of chaotic entropy... always casting it's furious red glow on its distrubingly nonsensical jumbles of architectural features and materials.

    IDK. That does sound about right. Whatever you do, just do NOT run that slide projector and everything should be fine. You won't need the headphones, then.
     
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  9. rhythmdevils

    rhythmdevils MOT: rhythmdevils audio

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    yes very significant and noticeable. The higher the number the more luxurious it feels to toss screws into it.
     
  10. ChaChaRealSmooth

    ChaChaRealSmooth SBAF's Mr. Bean

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    Instructions unclear. Put my screws in my cup and now I have a bleeding, hole-y ballsack. Please advise.
     
  11. Lyander

    Lyander Official SBAF Equitable Empathizer

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    Yes.

    Deadpan responses to long walls of text qualifies as humour as far as I'm concerned— dropping this disclaimer in just in case someone thinks I'm being genuinely brusque :p

    Also Control is a spectacular game, just it's either horribly optimised or simply hell on components for all the fancy lights and shiz. Still love it to death though
     
  12. Armaegis

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    Consent is required before you put anything near her cups.
     
  13. dBel84

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    I thought you might like to see the mod in action

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    edit - those with sharp eyes will see it is not optimal for the 6 screw approach
     
  14. dBel84

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    Deleted as I figured it out :Violin:
     
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  15. Themilkman

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    Hello, I am new here, am curious, I have recently gotten a pair of m50x thinking they are good fairly good, clean, monitors...
    But after listening for several months, I realized the treble is horrible shit, and the bass is either boomy or isn't even there..... Will this mod fix that????
    Thanks in advance, sorry for the noob questions.
     
  16. dBel84

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    Sadly not. Audiotechnica really went in the wrong direction with the x. The original AT m50 was perfectly suited for this mod but they added that slanted "antiresonant" mat onto the x which screws up the ability to really clamp down on the screws leaving things flapping about. Best bet is to find a used pair of Grado and stick to the original mod, brings me such joy every time I use them.
     
  17. Themilkman

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    Dam
    Well, that sucks, thank you for the quick response, appreciate the help, guess I will try and sell these, they don't seem to sound good with anything other then edm anyway
     

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