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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #50 on: June 17, 2015, 04:40:28 PM »
I regret purchase of JH-3A.

I really liked sound of my original JH13 and JH-3A seemed like way how to take them to maximum. I think I jumped on preorder after ton of positive reactions from Canjam and went with cheaper option to upgrade my JH13 to JH-3A. I than foolishly send them my JH13 when they told us, they were few eeks from completion. I ended up waiting for them 10 months.

Than it all started. Only JH16 was compatible, so they had to cut another bore into my customs, that ended with cutting of part of custom mould and just horible look. It become completely different device. I stayed on preorded and didn't went for refund, because by that time, they canceled upgrade option.

When it was delivered, my impressions was so mixed. It sounded really good, so much better than using just these JH16 with adapter and normal rig. But it had hiss, with coax input changing volume had weird noises, sometimes it had problems conencting. Mic button was there just to make your ears bleed when you activated it by mistake.

I was using it for some time, but than less and less. Nowadays it's mostly sitting on my shelf and  listen to it rarely. Maybe I should try to sold it, but I have no idea how much I could get back from it.

When I look back, I think I definitely should went for refund and bought soem desktop rig for JH13 instead.
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #51 on: June 17, 2015, 06:45:49 PM »
Quote from: AustinValentine on June 16, 2015, 10:12:53 PM
Hard Lessons:

1. Never fight a land war in Asia.
2. Never bet against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
3. No matter how much it cries or begs, never feed a Mogwai after midnight.
4. Never, ever, listen to a stock HD800 out of a GS-X sourced by a Mytek.

Always have a "boomstick" with you?
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #52 on: June 17, 2015, 06:57:26 PM »
Never sell your last headphone amp, before before building a new one.

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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #53 on: June 17, 2015, 07:00:40 PM »
Quote from: Deep Funk on June 17, 2015, 06:45:49 PM
Always have a "boomstick" with you?

Maybe if I had said "Klaatu Barada Nikto" before lifting the HD800 from its headphone stand the setup would have sounded better. I think I screwed up the last word.
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #54 on: June 17, 2015, 08:01:00 PM »
Quote from: DaveBSC on June 17, 2015, 03:38:58 PM
Just be sure to not use them with speakers, they can leave marks on the bottom. Sorbothane also loses its anti-vibration properties over time sort of becomes like an old worn out couch. Herbies stuff is a lot better, but my favorites are EdenSound and some of the Symposium stuff.
They are pretty old now, like over ten years. I don't know if they are sorbothane exactly, but they are kind of rubbery stuff that is a bit sticky and gets its stickiness back when you wash it.

I don't mind if they loose their effectiveness, because, as I have been using them, they would never have had any effect.

It's a shame that it never occurred to me to try putting them under the turntable, which I was still using regularly then.
Quote from: Azteca X on June 17, 2015, 01:21:25 PM
I'm with you. I have bought very carefully and am very conscious of resale value if I'm iffy on a purchase. It's certainly a big advantage of buying lower cost items.

Although I used the buy-back scheme at London's Richer Sounds a couple of times, I never bought anything I did not intend to keep long enough that the cost would become irrelevant. And I'd be really lazy about selling things. 
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #55 on: June 17, 2015, 09:35:49 PM »
Quote from: AustinValentine on June 17, 2015, 07:00:40 PM
Maybe if I had said "Klaatu Barada Nikto" before lifting the HD800 from its headphone stand the setup would have sounded better. I think I screwed up the last word.

The world is still spinning. A modification for the HD800 exists.

P.S. Keep the boomstick for the zombies.
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #56 on: June 17, 2015, 09:48:22 PM »
The original AK 100. Bad with pretty much every headphone I owned, because of the 22 ohm output impedance. fortunately, I didn't lose much on reselling it.

Fostex TH 600. Bought for looks and because I wanted a closed headphone to use at home late at night. Blecch. Again, didn't lose any money because I got them at a ridiculous price.

The second set of Monster Turbine Pro Copper (I left the first set on an airplane in Ireland). Could have gotten into UERM a year earlier if I hadn't done that.
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #57 on: June 17, 2015, 10:23:25 PM »
Bought a Objective 2 amplifier and thought that it sounded like it was the best amp ever then the issue with the grainy treble never went away.
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #58 on: June 18, 2015, 05:06:15 AM »
biggest regret was Yulong DA8, U100. Head Fi overflowing with bad information. Also I bought a WyWires Red Headphone Cable. Huge regret (until I sold it) and hard lesson learning that any change to a headphone's sound based on the cable needs to be very delicately done and therefore auditioned.

Also never hearing the Koss ESP-950s  :-[
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Re: Hard Audio Lessons and Regrets
« Reply #59 on: June 18, 2015, 05:15:20 AM »
I've owned 2 woo amps, 2 ray samuels amps, the TEAC UD-501, an always failing LCD-3, the JH-16s, the Meridian Explorer, the HRT microstreamer, the Chord QuteHD, and who knows what other crap that HF convinced me to buy? I remember wondering why thousands of dollars later in "upgrades," my rig sounded worse than my gamma2 > balanced beta22 > HD600 rig.

Who knows what other shit I've owned and forgotten? PHA-1, AK players, god the list goes on.
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